Floating Worlds

Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-86473-601-7
Verlag: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Containing stimulating and insightful essays on eight of the country's best novels, this collection of critical essays examines how New Zealand fiction has redefined traditional means of storytelling, inviting readers into a new malleable world where identities are negotiable, liberated from time and place. Explaining the most pressing themes of New Zealand's modern fiction, this volume illuminates the distinctive ways in which contemporary novels approach the relationship between the real and the imaginary with edgy authenticities that operate between the familiar and the foreign, the copy and the original, the fake and the genuine, the intention and the act.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Anna

Stafford, Jane

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Jackson is a well-established poet whose three previous collections, all from AUP, attracted much admiration: The Long Road to Teatime, The Pastoral Kitchen, shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards, and Catullus for Children. She made her debut in AUP New Poets 1. She has a DPhil from Oxford, where she has also lectured, and now teaches English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington.