Roots Uncovered
1s STEVENS’S lively and infor- ~ mative account of early New Zealand novels lets in a little more light on the past and discovers a few more of our roots. Neither sentimentally kind to pioneer efforts, nor harshly derisive, Miss Stevens deals out praise and criticism with an impartial hand, at the same time giving her listeners an opportunity of sharing her attitudes by liberal accounts of plots, and quotations. These talks, heard from 4YC, have been interesting and amusing; but the laughter they give rise to is not conceited, but sympathetic, since in Miss Stevens’s treatment our early writers and their aspirations and problems have 1 pices real to us before we have read more than a fraction of their work.
Loquax
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19530515.2.19.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124Roots Uncovered New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.