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024	7		_a10.1163/9789401207539 _2DOI
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100	1		_aD'Cruz, Doreen, _d1950-
245	1	4	_aThe lonely and the alone : _bthe poetics of isolation in New Zealand fiction / _cDoreen D'Cruz and John C. Ross.
264		1	_aAmsterdam ; _aNew York : _bRodopi, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xx, 407 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; _v147
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-375) and index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material -- _tIsolation in the Back-Country / _rGeorge Chamier , G.B. Lancaster , Katherine Mansfield , John Mulgan and Graham Billing -- _tOutsiders and Misfits in Fragmented Social Milieux / _rWilliam Satchell , Vincent Pyke , John A. Lee , Robin Hyde and Frank Sargeson -- _tThe Lonely and the Alone in the Fiction of Janet Frame -- _tMaurice Gee and Postmodern Isolation -- _tWomen, Isolation, and History / _rFiona Kidman , Noel Hilliard and Patricia Grace -- _tCultural Deracination and Isolation / _rWiti Ihimaera , Keri Hulme and Alan Duff -- _tEpilogue -- _tWorks Cited -- _tIndex.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aAloneness, loneliness, isolation, the isolated consciousness, the many possible guises of outsider-status, alienation, and exclusion – these have especial potency in New Zealand life and literature. The prominence of the motif or topos of the man or woman alone has been widely recognized by literary historians and critics, but this work is the first book-length exploration of it, extended to encompass the broader theme of isolation. This study treats selected novels and short stories from the late-nineteenth century through to the early-twenty-first. Close readings of works by George Chamier, G.B. Lancaster, Katherine Mansfield, John Mulgan, Graham Billing, William Satchell, John A. Lee, Robin Hyde, Frank Sargeson, Fiona Kidman, Noel Hilliard, Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, and Alan Duff take their place alongside more comprehensive chapters devoted to selected works by two major novelists, Janet Frame and Maurice Gee. Other literary works receive brief mention. This book invokes a number of foundational contexts, ranging from the physical landscape and historical circumstances to intellectual and cultural formations, for understanding the various permutations of aloneness, loneliness, and isolation in New Zealand fiction. The evolving aspects of isolation acquire their textual sig-nificance in this study through reading methodologies that draw on colonial, postcolonial, postmodern, feminist, and deconstructionist thinking, as well as on the illuminating insights of New Zealand’s literary-critical traditions. The condition of isolation not only manifests itself in the expected terms connotative of exclusion and exile but also functions in certain contexts as the catalyst for productive transformations of the social or symbolic consensus. This raises the question of whether representations of isolation in New Zealand literature may also tap subtly into a national unconscious in ways that operate dynamically upon the dominant modes of consciousness.
650		0	_aNew Zealand fiction _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIsolation (Philosophy) in literature.
650		0	_aSocial isolation in literature.
650		7	_aIsolation (Philosophy) in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aNew Zealand fiction. _2fast
650		7	_aSocial isolation in literature. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
700	1		_aRoss, J. C., _d1938-
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2011, _z9789042034747
830		0	_aCross/Cultures _v147.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207539
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