Telling the real story : genre and New Zealand literature /
Mercer, Erin,1977-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index.
'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.
New Zealand literature
Fiction genres.
Realism.
Realism.
Fiction genres.
New Zealand literature.