Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Fiction; Preliminary: What is Fiction? (1966); Katherine Mansfield: The Letters and Journals (1973/77); Katherine Mansfield: The Art of the 'Fiction' (1977); Frank Sargeson: Two Small Tributes (1965 and 1978); Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Living on the Grand (1981); John Mulgan: A Question of Identity (1979); Ronald Hugh Morrieson: The Man from Hawera (1971); Maurice Duggan: Language is Humanity (1980); David Ballantyne: Whimsical Losers (1979); Janet Frame: Language is the Hawk (1979); Part II: Poetry., Preliminary: From Wystan to Carlos-Modern and Modernism in Recent New Zealand Poetry (1979)A. R.D. Fairburn: The Argument Against (1966); R.A.K. Mason: Bringing Disorder to Life (1963); Charles Brasch: A Lack of Umbrellas (1957); Allen Curnow: Poet of the Real (1963); Denis Glover: The Colony Lives On (1964); James K. Baxter; (1) A Loss of Direction (1959); (2) Towards Jerusalem (1972); Hubert Witheford: Rhetoric and Wit (1968); Fleur Adcock: A Cool Intelligence (1971); David Mitchell: He Sing fr You (1972); Part III: A Poet's View; For the Hulk of the World's Between (1961)., and A Poet's View (1974)On Quesada (1979); Dates of Authors who are the Subject of Individual Essays; References; Index; Footnotes; Introduction; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Chapter 09; Chapter 11; Chapter 13; Chapter 15; Chapter 22; About the Author; Back Cover.
Summary
Over a quarter of a century, C.K. Stead has built up a widely accessible collection of reviews and critical essays on New Zealand literature. In the Glass Case covers a wide spectrum of New Zealand writers, who are examined from a remarkably consistent viewpoint. The title is symbolic: New Zealand books were once held in a glass-fronted bookcase at the University of Auckland library. These were considered rare, although they are now out on the open shelves. Stead's views are often controversial and provoke discussion and passionate debate from other critics. This is not only an enlightening l.
