Title: Dreams of speech and violence : the art of the short story in Canada and New Zealand /
Authors: New, William H.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Commonwealth (Organization) In literature.; Short stories, Commonwealth (English) History and criticism.; Short stories, Canadian History and criticism.; Short stories, New Zealand History and criticism.; Commonwealth of Nations in literature.; Canada In literature.; New Zealand In literature.
Contents: Pt. 1. Story and theory -- 1. Canada, New Zealand, and the genre of the short story -- Pt. 2. Canada: story and history -- 2. Canada: story and history -- D.C. Scott's revolution, 1820-1920 -- Country, war, and city, 1890-1940 -- The tensions between story and word, 1930-1980 -- 3. New Zealand: story and history -- The transformations of Kathleen Beauchamp, 1860-1920 -- Frank Sargeson & sons, 1900-1970 -- The match with homogeneity, 1940-1980 -- Pt. 3. Story and structure -- 4. Altering cycles: Duncan Campbell Scott's In the Village of Viger -- 5. No longer living there: Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House -- 6. Pronouns and prepositions: Alice Munro's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You -- 7. Pronouncing silence: Katherine Mansfield's 'At the Bay' -- 8. Saying speech: Frank Sargeson's "Conversation with my Uncle' and Patricia Grace's 'A way of talking' -- 9. Unsaying memory: Maurice Duggan's 'Along Rideout Road that Summer' -- Pt. 4. Epilogue -- 10. In other words, taht is to say, so to speak.