Landfall Country

Landfall Country PDF Author: Landfall
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Udvalg af noveller, digte, essays om kunst og litteratur, og kunstreproduktioner fra det newzealandske tidsskrift: Landfall

Landfall

Landfall PDF Author: Country Club of Landfall. Communications Committee
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Category : Landfall neighborhood
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Whole Men

Whole Men PDF Author: Kai Jensen
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869401450
Category : Masculinity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Kai Jensen takes a provocative look at masculinity in New Zealand literature. He argues that New Zealand writing around the Second World War was shaped by excitement about masculinity as a way of challenging society. Inspired partly by Marxism, writers such as A.R.D. Fairburn, Denis Glover, John Mulgan and Frank Sargeson linked national identity to the ordinary working man or soldier, and attempted to merge artistic activity and manliness in a new ideal, the whole man. This masculine excitement forged a literary and intellectual culture which was powerful for thirty years, and which discouraged women writers. Jensen suggests that the aftermath of masculinism still influences the way New Zealand intellectuals see themselves, and that the masculine tradition survives in the writing of Owen Marshall, Sam Hunt, Maurice Shadbolt and even Maurice Gee. At the same time he argues that masculinism underwent a process of change after its high point in the 1940s: Frank Sargeson's closeted homosexuality posed a complex problem for the masculine tradition and its historians, and James K. Baxter's symbolic, Jungian poetry was also hard to reconcile with the idea that men's writing must be based on robust experience. Yet Baxter prepared the masculine tradition for the 1960s and 1970s by renovating the whole man as bohemian lover. Whole Men is not just about one literary movement, but about how literary culture works, and how New Zealand intellectuals construct their identities.

Landfall country: work from Landfall, 1947-61, chosen by C. Brasch

Landfall country: work from Landfall, 1947-61, chosen by C. Brasch PDF Author: Landfall
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Category : New Zealand literature
Languages : en
Pages :

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People and Place

People and Place PDF Author: Len Richardson
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island’s rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand’s emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance?

Landfall Country

Landfall Country PDF Author: Landfall
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Udvalg af noveller, digte, essays om kunst og litteratur, og kunstreproduktioner fra det newzealandske tidsskrift: Landfall

To Bed at Noon

To Bed at Noon PDF Author: Ian Richards
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775582213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment. This biography looks at the complexity of his life and offers a picture of literary life in New Zealand, and especially Auckland, in the 1950's and 1960's.

Landfall country

Landfall country PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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Bloomsbury South

Bloomsbury South PDF Author: Peter Simpson
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775588548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch was the home of Angus and Bensemann and McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow, Ngaio Marsh and Douglas Lilburn. It was a city in which painters lived with writers, writers promoted musicians, in which the arts and artists from different forms were deeply intertwined. And it was a city where artists developed a powerful synthesis of European modernist influences and an assertive New Zealand nationalism that gave mid-century New Zealand cultural life its particular shape. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ‘Bloomsbury South' and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, but he also takes us inside the scenes that they created together: Bethell and her visiting coterie of younger poets; Glover and Bensemann's exacting typography at the Caxton Press; the yearly exhibitions and aesthetic clashes of the Group; McCahon and Baxter's developing friendship; the effects of Brasch's patronage; Marsh's Shakespearian re-creations at the Little Theatre. Simpson re-creates a Christchurch we have lost, where a group of artists collaborated to create a distinctively New Zealand art which spoke to the condition of their country as it emerged into the modern era.

Documentary History of the State of Maine

Documentary History of the State of Maine PDF Author: Maine Historical Society
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Picking Up the Traces

Picking Up the Traces PDF Author: Lawrence Jones
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.