Picking Up the Traces The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932–1945

, by Jones, Lawrence

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ISBN: 9780864734556 | 0864734557
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2004

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Preface and Acknowledgements

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Introduction

(8)

Part I 'Bliss was it in that Dawn...': The Beginnings of a Movement

1 'The Creation of Cultural Antennae': Auckland: The Phoenix, Kiwi, and the Little Presses

(15)

2 'Breaking the Uncanny and Ill-boding Silence': Christchurch: Oriflamme, Sirocco, Caxton and Tomorrow

(15)

Part II Repudiations and Loyalties: Enemies, Ancestors Allies and Models

1 'Mulgan, Marris, Schroder': Repudiating the Literary Establishment

(31)

2 'For the Love of Rupert': Repudiating the Georgians

(22)

3 'An Object Worthy of a Life's Devotion': Cresswell and de Montalk as Forerunners

104

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4 'Uncompromising Fidelity to Experience': Mason and Bethell as Allies

122

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5 Models (1): 'New Modes of Architecture': Moderns and Modernists

145

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6 Models (2): 'Colonial Like Ourselves': Americans and Other Provincials

160

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Part III 'The Anti-Myth about New Zealand': The Creation of an Anti-Myth

1 'Privileged Happyland': The Myth of the Fathers

173

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2 Anti-Myth (1): 'A Land of Settlers with Never a Soul at Home': The Land and the People

185

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3 Anti-Myth (2): 'Something Different, Something Nobody Counted on': History, 'Unhistory', the Maori, 'Home'

201

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4 Anti-Myth (3): 'Its Own Particular Variety of Puritanism' and 'A Home in This World': The Pattern of the Puritan Family

223

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5 Anti-Myth (4): 'Rules' and 'Creation': Anti-Puritan Judgement and Dualism

257

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6 'Without One Word of Our Failures': Myth and Anti-Myth in the Centennial

277

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Part IV: 'Prophetic Times': Responses to Political and Economic Crisis and War, 1932-45

1 'No New Zealand Writer Regrets the Depression': Provincial Writers and the Great Depression

297

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2 'A Body in the Cellar': The Literary Depiction of the Depression by Provincial Writers

314

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3 'In Fascist Countries Knaves now Walk Abroad': Responses to International Crisis, 1935-39

333

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4 'The Shadow of that Earlier War': The Literary Movement and World War I

358

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5 'Explosions of a Complex Origin': The Literary Movement and World War II - The Phoenix-Caxton Writers as Non-Participants

370

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6 'Laid...in the Breech of this Time's Gun': The Literary Movement and World War II - Phoenix-Caxton Writers as Participants

405

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Conclusion

426

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Notes

430

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Select Bibliography

489

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Index

493

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