Telling the real story : genre and New Zealand Literature /
"Telling the Real Story interrogates the relationships between genre and New Zealand literature. What modes of writing have been deemed more appropriate than others at particular times, and why? Why have some narratives been interpreted as realist when significant aspects of them relate to genr...
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Wellington :
Victoria University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 'Back towards the middle-of-the-road'
- The 'Relentless "middling" of our literature'
- 'Manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs': Realism and Gothicism in Frank Sargeson and Katherine Mansfield
- Showing things as they really are: Realism and romance in John Mulgan's Man Alone
- 'Unrestrained exercise of personal fantasy': Women's writing, the melodramatic and the imaginary
- The 'provincial period': Realism, romance and the great unread New Zealand novel
- 'An inbuilt point of crisis': Breaking the restrictions of realism
- 'Something that described the real New Zealand': Keri Hulme's The Bone People and Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch
- 'Maybe it would work in New York': The problems of place and genre
- 'Curnow's rundown homestead': Answering a realist tradition.