| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, letters and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. In this latest collection, a sequel to the successful Answering to the Language, The Writer at Work, and Book Self, Stead takes the reader through nine essays in 'the Mansfield file', collects works of criticism and review in 'book talk', writes in the 'first person' about everything from David Bain to Parnell, and finally offers some recent reflections on poetic laurels from his time as New Zealand poet laureate. Throughout, this is vintage Stead: clear, direct, intelligent, decisive, personal"--Publisher information. |
| Contents |
Intoduction: Afternoon work -- The Mansfield file. Meetings with 'The great ghost' -- Katherine Mansfield and the fictions of continental Europe -- First person as third person: Mansfield's married man -- Tom & Viv & Murry & Mansfield -- A note on Larkin on Mansfield -- Janet bites the hand... -- Margaret Scott, 1928-2014 -- Some railway journeys in New Zealand literature -- The Murry-Mansfield muddle -- Book talk: sixteen reviews. An important modern critic -- Kiwi Kevin -- Roddick is back: a celebration -- Virginia Woolf's nightmare? -- Colm Tóibín's Mary -- Not part of the entertainment industry -- Golding's Booker -- Author obsession. 1. Frank and Janet: fictioned again -- 2. The author as monster -- The man who wished to be other -- 'Moss' -- 'Sleeplessness, disquiet, ardour': Zbigniew Herbert's grand claim -- T.S. Eliot as letter-writer -- The trophy husband -- The sky is falling -- Drawn to the green light -- First person. My first book(s) -- Comprehensive: the Lawrence Jones interview -- My Parnell -- Dear Chris -- One thing leads to another -- Sylvia and her editor -- Why Catullus? -- Poetry: formalists and freedom fighters -- Small talk questions -- The case of David Bain -- A talented transient -- The Takahē interview -- World War I: close up from a distance -- Hawke's Bay answers -- At the Molino a Sesta, Gaiole, in Chianti -- 'Yes T.S.' -- What's going on here? -- Twelve questions -- Only connect... -- The Laureate reflects. Allen Curnow: 'Poet Laureate'? -- Irish poets and poetry -- Ezra Pound one to be reckoned with -- 'Taddeo Grande': Ted Hughes -- W.B., T.S. and W.H.: 'our clients at least can rune' -- Big spender and little Matthew. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
New Zealand literature -- History and criticism.
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New Zealand literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781869408497 1869408497 (OCoLC)945106040 |
| ISBN |
9781775588580 (electronic book) |
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1775588580 (electronic book) |
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9781775588603 (electronic book) |
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1775588602 (electronic book) |
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9781869408497 |
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1869408497 |
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9781775588573 |
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1775588572 |
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