The lonely and the alone : the poetics of isolation in New Zealand fiction / Doreen D'Cruz and John C. Ross.

Aloneness, 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...

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Main Author:	D'Cruz, Doreen, 1950-
Other Authors:	Ross, J. C., 1938-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:	Cross/cultures ; 147.
Subjects:	New Zealand fiction > History and criticism. Isolation (Philosophy) in literature. Social isolation in literature.