A detailed study of Mansfield's short stories uses biographical information to provide background, and focuses on the development of her aesthetic principles

Product Description: In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespearean theatre...read more

Janet Frame’s literary career was inextricably woven into the fabric of the twentieth-century New Zealand literary scene. However, she also became New Zealand’s best-known international writer and her great literary influence in both fields has not been charted before now. This study also seeks to redress the excessive commitment in scholarship to maintaining, even celebrating, Frame’s reputation as a psychologically disturbed writer. This book surveys all aspects of Janet Frame’s biographical legend by considering her later literary and autobiographical works, Jane Campion’s film adaptation of the autobiographies, An Angel at my Table, as well as biographies and literary histories that both rely on and contribute to her well-known legend. In doing so, the author hopes to offer novel perspectives on Frame’s literary production, on Frame scholarship, on auto/biographical theories and on New Zealand literary history.

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Product Description: A beautifully written biography about the talented, reclusive Janet Frame; Janet Frame, born in 1924, came to international attention through her poignant and beautifully written autobiographical series, An Angel at my Table. New Zealand's most celebrated yet most reclusive author, her early life makes tragic reading: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade...read more

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Product Description: Jean Devanny—author, political activist, and women's liberationist—was a leading figure in Australia's political and literary life, yet this remarkable biography is the first full account of her life and times. In the turbulent political climate of the 1930s, Devanny joined the Communist Party and rapidly became a redoubtable public speaker...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders' ideas of themselves. The author argues that interpretation is a process which can never be completed, although at any one time there will be readings that are more significant than others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Comprising only a small segment of renowned short story writer Katherine Mansfield's work, the New Zealand stories were written within a five year span between 1918 and 1922. However, they were never published as a group until 1974 and have rarely been the focus of sustained analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides full-page entries for sixty-four new truck, van, and 4x4 models that include narrative summaries for each, an overall ratings chart, and details about such areas as fuel economy, preventative maintenance costs, insurance costs, and crash test results. Original.

Product Description: Word of Mouth focuses on the two most prominent women in British modernism, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Patricia Moran reevaluates Mansfield and Woolf, focusing on the figures of the anorexic and the hysteric and on the extensive imagery of eating, feeding, starvation, suffocation, flesh, and longing that permeates both fictional and nonfictional texts; it locates this writing within the overlapping frames of psychoanalytic theory, studies of women and eating disorders, and feminist work on women's anxiety and authorship...read more

Product Description: Dr. Weinkauf provides a complete overview of Ngaio Marsh's crime novels, from her beginnings in 1934 to her final book, "Light Thickens," published posthumously in 1982.

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Product Description: This volume investigates the past four decades of criticism devoted to two major female contemporary writers: the New Zealander Janet Frame, and the Canadian Margaret Laurence, author of A Jest of God. The first extensive study to compare the two, it considers early close readings meant to promulgate each writer's work, and traces the various influences of narrative, feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonialist theory on a wide-ranging selection of commentaries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A study of pain and feminine creative expression considers Katherine Mansfield's emotional disturbances and physical afflictions, their affect on the quality of her work, and her efforts to overcome limitations of illness and of being a woman. UP.

Product Description: In this new edition of Katherine Mansfield, Saralyn Daly offers a timely and discerning assessment of one of the century's most gifted writers of the short story. Out of fashion with critics when the first edition was published in 1965, Mansfield has since come to be viewed as a major influence on modernist and contemporary fiction...read more

Product Description: This book attempts to analyze a major part of Mansfield's fiction, concentrating on an analysis of the various textures, themes, and issues, plus the point of view virtuosity that she accomplished in her short lifetime (34 years)...read more

Product Description: In this critical study of Janet Frame's eleven novels and the extended story "Snowman Snowman," Dr. Judith Dell Panny shows that each work is skillfully patterned to include an allegorical dimension that, when deciphered, reveals even more richness and diversity to Frame's texts...read more

Examines Marsh's thirty-two detective novels, providing a biographical analysis of her work and a detailed assessment of her relationship to the form and style of classic detective fiction of the 1920s and 1930s

A detailed study of Mansfield's short stories uses biographical information to provide background, and focuses on the development of her aesthetic principles