Format:
319 Seiten
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9781776561711
Content:
"A dozen essays that uncover how much more complicated Baxter is than his popular stereotype, and how his prose writing (like his poetry) wrestles with contradictions, anxieties and competing impulses just as he wrestled with the society in which he lived, or from which he withdrew"--Back cover
Content:
Contains biographical information
Content:
Foreword / John Weir -- Introduction / Geoffrey Miles -- No middle ground: Baxter's writing of the self / Janet Wilson -- 'Women are all mothers to him': displacing fear in James K. Baxter's short stories / Sharon Matthews -- 'There may be something wrong with my mind': the difficult journey of James K. Baxter's 'Ghost in Trousers' / Paul Millar -- 'Conversations with an ancestor': James K. Baxter's prose exploration of his personal poetic situation, 1966 / Lawrence Jones -- Baxter, academia and academic writing / John Davidson -- The incarnational formalist: the known habits of association in Baxter's criticism of poetry / Nicholas Wright -- Invisible boulder: Baxter among the Nationalists / Hugh Roberts -- That 'austere anti-aesthetic angel': Kames K. Baxter and Puritanism / Kristine Moffat -- Baxter and God: reflections / Paul Morris -- Kenosis: the difficult spirituality of James K. Baxter / Doreen D'Cruz -- Becoming the sore thumb of the tribe: the development of James K. Baxter's social voice / Peter Whiteford -- A Green Baxter: James K. Baxter and environmentalism / Greg O'Brien -- 'The rich and the poor': an unpublished essay by James K. Baxter / James K. Baxter
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The rich and the poor
Language:
English
Keywords:
Baxter, James K. 1926-1972
;
Prosa
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Baxter, James K. 1926-1972
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