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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Zealand
According to the "New Zealand Official Year-Book" for 1909 (a Government publication) the total number of Catholic schools in the dominion is 152 and the number of Catholic pupils attending is 12,650.
New Zealand Catholics have never asked or desired a grant for the religious education which is imparted in their schools.
The history of Catholic journalism in New Zealand is in effect the history of the "New Zealand Tablet," founded by the late Bishop Moran in 1873, the Catholics of this country having followed the principle that it is better to be represented by one strong paper than to have a multiplicity of publications.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11040a.htm   (3229 words)

  
 New Zealand literature - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
New Zealand developed a vital literary tradition, though only a few of its authors are well-known outside its islands: Katherine Mansfield, short-story writer; Sylvia Ashton-Warner, novelist and teacher; Eileen Duggan, poet; Dame Ngaio Marsh, writer of detective fiction; and Janet Frame, novelist.
John Mulgan and Frank Sargeson initiated the New Zealand school in the interwar years, followed after World War II by Maurice Duggan, James K. Baxter, and Ian Cross.
New Zealand has also figured in the works of many authors from Alfred Domett and Samuel Butler in the 19th cent.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-newz1lit.html   (473 words)

  
 Literature in New Zealand 1930-1960 - NZHistory.net.nz
The first Labour Government's support for literature and scholarship was shown in funding for a series of historical and critical publications to mark the country's centennial in 1940; this provided recognition as well as employment for a number of writers, historians and critics.
New Zealand New Writing, a local adaptation of this publication produced between 1942 and 1945, was another vehicle for fresh talent.
New Zealand universities began to expand rapidly after the war, and once again, they proved havens for writers.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/literature-194060   (1515 words)

  
 Tihe Mauriora: The Teaching of Literature in Aotearoa/New Zealand.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Writing in English in New Zealand today is being invigorated by the strength of the Maori oral tradition: its use of metaphor, its expression of Maori values.
It is the Maori tradition that is the source of a unique New Zealand identity, which emerges through the language and literature of Aotearoa (New Zealand), the use of strongly rooted Maori myths and legends, and a landscape in which the Maori language is embedded.
Two main streams of literature in English are now developing in New Zealand: the writing that derives from a European viewpoint and the writing which gains its impetus from the Maori perspective.
www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b80107d99.html   (235 words)

  
 Giants of New Zealand Literature Honoured | New Zealand News UK   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LITERATURE AWARDS: Three of New Zealand’s top writers - Patricia Grace, Vincent O’Sullivan and Judith Binney - were honoured on Monday night (NZT) at the 2006 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.
Earlier this year, New Zealanders were invited to nominate their choice of outstanding New Zealand writer who had made a significant contribution to literature in the genres non-fiction, poetry and fiction.
Historian Rachel Barrowman, who was awarded the 2006 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship earlier this year, attended the awards ceremony where her achievement was also acknowledged.
www.nznewsuk.co.uk /lifestyle/arts/?ID=4803   (337 words)

  
 New Zealand: Host Institutions
The University of Auckland, established in 1883, is New Zealand’s largest university.
The University of Otago, New Zealand’s first university, was established in 1869.
Dunedin is a typical New Zealand town, a mixture of old and new, surrounded by rolling green countryside.
eap.ucop.edu /eap/country/newzealand/nzhost-univ.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Crop & Food Research homepage
A new analysis of New Zealand’s cereal-based foods and baked-goods sector has shown it to be achieving significant and consistent export growth.
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New Zealand’s potato growers are investing for the future by launching four new PhD research programmes for postgraduate students.
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 Public Address | Great New Zealand Argument   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He has gone well beyond being just "at home" in New Zealand, his subject is greatness and the new civilization being created in New Zealand, themes that had dropped out of public discussion in New Zealand for some 100 years since Wakefield and Grey.
The writers are steady on their feet and assured, but many mainstream New Zealanders, who thought their feet, instinctively, had a good purchase on the land, are now finding it hard to stand upright here.
It isn't confined to New Zealand; there have been anguished articles, and earlier this year a book, lamenting the decline of the public intellectual in the United States.
www.publicaddress.net /default,2374.sm   (2021 words)

  
 New Zealand Literature File - LEARN - The University of Auckland Library   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This file is a selective list of New Zealand and Pacific authors' works and provides references to biographical and critical material.
It was compiled initially by staff in the New Zealand and Pacific Collection of the General Library to assist students enrolled in courses for New Zealand Literature, and is maintained for that purpose.
The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English.
www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/authors.htm   (267 words)

  
 A History of New Zealand Literature Through Selected Texts | NZETC
The author disliked New Zealand, left it to its own devices, never came back and wrote all her major stories about New Zealand while living in France.
The implications of post-Shakespearian literature in English being a long lost branch of the Ngati Porou oral tradition (Shakespeare's appropriation is being contested in an action currently before the Waitangi Tribunal which seeks to reclaim him as a taonga) will be particularly highlighted in the paper.
These three texts exist in New Zealand film and the filmic intersections with literary equivalents show that postmodernism, postcolonialism and neocolonialism are structures which are perpetuated in film as well as literature.
www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-RobWrit-_N68011.html   (1611 words)

  
 New Zealand Literature: The University of Waikato Library
While the books by and about New Zealand authors are found in the New Zealand Collection on Level 3, many reference books are in the Quick Reference Collection next to the Information Desk on Level 2.
New Zealand Literature File: Critical and Biographical Material on New Zealand Authors by Kay Stead is available at http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/authors.htm.
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) available at http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/ provides a gateway to poetry resources in New Zealand.
www.waikato.ac.nz /library/learning/g_nzlit.shtml   (798 words)

  
 MavicaNET - New Zealand Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The New Zealand Writers Guild is a professional non profit association for writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media.
New Zealand novelist and feminist writer, author of The Word Burners, The Iron Mouth, The Silicon Tongue, and The Bloodwood Clan.
Extensive resources for New Zealand writers at all levels of the craft and art.
www.mavicanet.com /lite/ces/601.html   (277 words)

  
 New Zealand Literature - English - Library - University of Canterbury
The journal is part of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) and is based at the University of Auckland.
Many of the author entries are reprinted and updated from Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, but the New Zealand Book Council has augmented this by also including authors not featured in the Companion.
News and views from the New Zealand literary and publishing scene.
library.canterbury.ac.nz /art/engl/nz_lit.shtml   (1049 words)

  
 LITERATURE - LITERATURE - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The New Zealand Company settlers, well educated, articulate, and anxious to persuade others to join their enterprise, published many accounts, propagandist or defensive; by far the best of these was the lively, unscrupulous, graphic Adventure in New Zealand 1839–1844 (1845) by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, which is as picturesquely enthralling as it is prejudiced.
Maning'sOld New Zealand (1863) and The War in the North (1862) made the Maori a conventional figure of humour, mixed with a modicum of affectionate admiration, rather like a Victorian novelist's Irishman.
It was to be many years before a genuine indigenous literature was created by and for people living in New Zealand.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/L/Literature/Literature/en   (790 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - New Zealand literature (Australian And New Zealand Literature) - Encyclopedia
New Zealand literature, Australian And New Zealand Literature
See histories of New Zealand literature by A. Mulgan (1943), E. McCormick (1959), and J. Reid and P. Cope (1979); J. Stevens, The New Zealand Novel, 1860–1965 (2d ed.
1966); New Zealand Short Stories, a series of anthologies (1953–84); F. Adcock, The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (1982), and I. Wedde and H. McQueen, The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1985).
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 English 1585: Australian & New Zealand Literature
his course serves as an introduction to the literature and culture of Australia and New Zealand, focusing primarily on the twentieth century.
This is an ambitious course: in 15 weeks, we will read two centuries' worth of Australian and New Zealand literature and we will learn how to think and speak intelligently about what we have read.
But these texts are important because, regardless of their age, they reward us with insights into Australian and New Zealand thought, an understanding of their literary heritage, and a better understanding of these cultures today.
www.d.umn.edu /~pcannan/engl1585.htm   (750 words)

  
 New Zealand Literature Subject Guide, University of Otago Library, New Zealand
The key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material.
Abstracts of selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers and nearly 300 New Zealand journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Over 10 million records for New Zealand and overseas resources, with links to New Zealand holding libraries and Index New Zealand (journal index).
www.library.otago.ac.nz /subjectguides/nz-lit.php   (389 words)

  
 Christian Brethren of New Zealand - Literature
New subscriptions during the year are charged according to the number of months left in the subscription year at the following rates per month:
In addition, GPH’s wholesale divisions in New Zealand and Australia source and provide large quantities of Christian books and other product to many bookstores throughout both countries.
It is led by members and directors drawn from various Brethren assemblies throughout New Zealand.
www.brethren.org.nz /literature.asp   (640 words)

  
 New Zealand literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the current New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight!
New Zealand claims as its own many writers, even those immigrants born overseas or those emigrants who have gone into exile.
Most New Zealand literary work appear in English, but Māori publications grows apace.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_literature   (146 words)

  
 Oxford University Press
At the heart of the New Zealand Writer Files section are 150 author entries reprinted from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, (Ed.
A New Zealand connection with OUP, especially in the fields of literature and lexicography, goes back to the group of literary and language scholars of New Zealand origin associated with the Press in the mid-twentieth century.
Medievalist Kenneth Sisam, as Secretary to the Delegates, was responsible for the appointments of John *Mulgan and Dan *Davin; the latter became a key figure in the Press’s post-war publishing of literature and works relating to its study, and was host to an informal New Zealand literary centre in Oxford.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/oxford.html   (802 words)

  
 World Literature - New Zealand
New, W. Dreams of Speech and Violence : The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand.
New Zealand Fiction Since 1945; a Critical Survey of Recent Novels and Short Stories.
Silence and Invisibility : A Study of the Literatures of the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand.
www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/lit/worldliteng/specnz.htm   (315 words)

  
 New Zealand Literature
The Hyper-Index of New Zealand Language and Literature.
New Zealand literature in the 1940s and 1950s.
Interviews on New Zealand art and writing by prominent New Zealand writers, reviwers and critics.
www.zeroland.co.nz /new_zealand_literature.html   (831 words)

  
 Te Puna Web Directory > NZ > Arts and Literature > Literature
Description of the culture and literature that James Traue offered as his genaealogy, his whakapapa, on a visit to Ngāti Raukawa marae at Otaki, N.Z. Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
Best New Zealand Poems is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters, and aims to introduce readers to leading contemporary New Zealand poets.
The site includes a list of the top 100 New Zealand children's books of the twentieth century; reviews of children's books; booklists; topical issues relating to children's books; a personal selection of recommended authors of novels (and some of their significant titles), organised by country; recommended New Zealand picture book authors; and links.
webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz /dir/en/nz/arts-and-literature/literature   (1809 words)

  
 New Zealand literature — FactMonster.com
New Zealand developed a vital literary tradition, though only a few of its authors are well-known outside its islands: Katherine
New Zealand has also figured in the works of many authors from Alfred Domett and Samuel
Encyclopedia: Australian and New Zealand Literature: Biographies - Encyclopeadia articles concerning Australian and New Zealand Literature: Biographies.
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 New Zealand Literature Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on New Zealand Literature
Since 1998, our New Zealand Literature experts have helped students worldwide by providing the most extensive, lowest-priced service for New Zealand Literature writing and research.
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 New Zealand Landscape and Literature, 1890-1925   (Site not responding. Last check: )
New Zealand's literature (1890-1925) offers a wealth of information for the environmental historian that is unparalleled by most other countries.
A major theme of New Zealand late colonial literature was the removal of the indigenous bush and its transformation into a British-modelled pastoral paradise.
The period's poetry and fiction conveys valuable insights into perceptions and attitudes towards this transformation, which cannot be ascertained from other documentary sources.
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 New Zealand Books : NZ Bookshop, New Zealand Bookstore, Shop our Book Store for NZ Publications
New Zealand Books is an online New Zealand book shop that makes finding books published in New Zealand easy!
Few New Zealand book stores access obscure titles from NZ publishers and ship anywhere as well as this book shop does.
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