Post-War New Zealand Literary Critique

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dc.contributor.authorSmithies, J.
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-22T23:31:09Z
dc.date.available2015-06-22T23:31:09Z
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractFor most of the 20th century literature and criticism of literature functioned as central engines of cultural change across the western world. This was especially the case in ex-colonial societies like New Zealand where writers and intellectuals frequently expressed a desire to create sophisticated local cultures which could compete with the foundation societies in Europe. Between 1940 and 1984 New Zealand writers and intellectuals developed a mode of literary criticism which this essay refers to as ‘Literary Critique’ for this very reason. In the absence of well established cultural traditions and a sense that they had a duty to import and indigenise western intellectual thought in order to further the evolution of New Zealand culture, a series of writers wrote often scathing critiques of their culture, using literature as their point of entry. Post- War New Zealand Literary Critique stands as evidence of a provincial, masculine, and angry intellectual culture.en
dc.identifier.citationSmithies, J. (2008) Post-War New Zealand Literary Critique. Thesis Eleven, 92(1), pp. 87-107.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0725513607085046
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/10538
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative Artsen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Historyen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Philosophyen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectcritiqueen
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.subjectliteratureen
dc.subjectmasculinismen
dc.subjectmodernismen
dc.subjectNew Zealanden
dc.subjectpost-modernen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4705 - Literary studies::470522 - New Zealand literature (excl. Māori literature)en
dc.titlePost-War New Zealand Literary Critiqueen
dc.typeJournal Article
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