Lighted windows
Subtitle: critical essays on Robin Hyde
By: edited by Mary Edmond-Paul.
Contributors: Paul, Mary.
Publisher: Otago University Press; Brand: Otago University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781877372582
Subjects: Hyde, Robin, -- 1906-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Robin Hyde, journalist, poet, novelist, war correspondent (from China, in 1938) and committed political figure, was central to the movements and debates of a volatile period in New Zealand society. As a writer Hyde was not afraid to draw on her own experience of the dangers of new-found freedoms for women. This first critical study of the diverse writings of Robin Hyde includes new information on her life and work and studies that enlarge our understanding of a courageous yet vulnerable figure and the vitality, richness and wit of her writing.

"As a journalist, poet, novelist and war correspondent (from China, in 1938), Robin Hyde wrote about the movements and debates of a volatile period." "Hyde dared to broach such subjects as the plight of soldiers returned from the First World War and the dangers of new-found freedoms for women. This first critical study of her diverse writings includes new information on her life and work, and enlarges our understanding of the vitality, richness and wit of her writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226).
Table of contents: title: Turning the tables : domesticity and nationalism in Wednesday's children / Michelle Elleray; title: Running ever out of reach : carnival and fantasy on Wednesday's island / Renata Casertano; title: No alternative : Robin Hyde and the politics of loss / Nadine Attewell; title: Violence and the psychology of recklessness : Robin Hyde's Passport to hell / Alex Calder; title: Other pastures : death, fantasy and the Gothic in Robin Hyde's short stories / Alison Jeffreys; title: China, imagined and actual, in Robin Hyde's The godwits fly, two journal entries and the "China" poems / Diana Bridge; title: Thoroughly modern Malory : Robin Hyde's poetic ciphers and Camelot codes / Megan Clayton; title: Archival poetics : Michele Leggott reads Robin Hyde / Susan Ash; title: When Iris met Eve : an Australasian friendship / Brigid Magner; title: Angel-guarded liar in a pleasant, quiet room : Robin Hyde's experiences in the New Zealand mental health system of the 1930s / Alison Hunt; title: Novitia and the anti-novice : Robin Hyde's parliamentary reports / Nikki Hessell; title: Interviews with a ghost : visiting Gunnersbury : revisiting Dragon rampant / Jolisa Gracewood.