The wolf bane is blooming again: Gothic desire in R.H. Morrieson’s the scarecrow
| dc.citation.volume | 35 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mercer ES | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-01 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-10-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | R.H. Morrieson’s fiction has received little scholarly analysis in New Zealand, but when it has, it has been common to consider it as part of a tradition emerging during the middle decades of the twentieth century that sought new modes of writing with which to best express the realities of a post-World War II world. Peter Simpson argues that as a post-provincial novel, Morrieson’s The Scarecrow (1963) ‘turns the typical pattern of provincial fiction – sympathetic individual versus hostile society – upside down. The isolated individual – the Scarecrow – is viewed as a threat to the community from outside’ (1982: 59). Yet the pattern that Simpson notes here as belonging to the post-provincial novel belongs to another mode of fiction: the Gothic, which frequently involves a communal effort to vanquish an evil threat, such as in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). By considering The Scarecrow as a Gothic novel, post-provincial writing in New Zealand can be seen as not just building on a local tradition of literary realism, but as engaging with a popular international tradition as well. | |
| dc.description.confidential | false | |
| dc.format.extent | 1 - 13 (13) | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.textjournal.com.au/ | |
| dc.identifier | 10 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 2016, 35 pp. 1 - 13 (13) | |
| dc.identifier.elements-id | 366782 | |
| dc.identifier.harvested | Massey_Dark | |
| dc.publisher | Australasian Association of Writing Progams | |
| dc.publisher.uri | http://www.textjournal.com.au/ | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses | |
| dc.relation.uri | http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue35/Mercer.pdf | |
| dc.rights | The Author(s) | |
| dc.subject | New Zealand Literature, Gothic, R.H. Morrieson | |
| dc.title | The wolf bane is blooming again: Gothic desire in R.H. Morrieson’s the scarecrow | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.notes | Not known | |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University | |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Humanities, Media & Creative Communication |