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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stead, C. K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand literature--History and criticism.

New Zealand literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A collection of reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, essays and lectures, many of which were previously published.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 3, 2017).

ISBN:

9781775588580

1775588580

9781775588603

1775588602

OCLC:

951592505