Shelf life : reviews, replies and reminiscences / / C. K. Stead

• Autore: Stead C. K.
• Pubblicazione: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (452 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.99931
• Soggetto topico: New Zealand literature - History and criticism
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, essays and lectures, many of which were previously published.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shelf life
• ISBN: 1-77558-858-0; 1-77558-860-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825589603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II