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    "Disputed Ground" in the Poetry of Charles Brasch
    (University of Otago Press, 1972) Daalder, Joost
    A response to Vincent O'Sullivan's article, "'Brief Permitted Morning' - Notes on the Poetry of Charles Brasch" in which Professor Daalder discusses issues of spirtuality, temporality and mortality in the 'Disputed Ground' poems of Charles Brasch.
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    Requiescat in Pace [short story]
    (Outrigger Publishers Ltd, 1976) Daalder, Joost
    Published in 1976, 'Requiescat in Pace' is Professor Daalder's only work of fiction. This short story, set in New Zealand, paints a somber portrait of the final, mundane, days of the elderly protagonist's life in Dunedin.
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    Taut and Colloquial: 'Frank Sargeson' by R.A. Copland [review]
    (Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1977) Daalder, Joost
    Review of R.A. Copland's book, 'Frank Sargeson', (Wellington:1976).
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    Echoes of Auden. "Cities and Strangers" by Paterson. [review]
    (Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1977) Daalder, Joost
    Review of Alistair Paterson's book "Cities & Strangers" (Dunedin: Caveman Press, 1976).
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    Charles Brasch and the Betrayal of Romanticism
    (Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1978) Daalder, Joost
    An extension of the author's 1972 essay, '"Disputed Ground" in the Poetry of Charles Brasch'. In this paper, Professor Daalder explains the spiritualizing influence of Wordsworth and Shelley on Brasch's early poems.
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    Refreshing and Religious
    (Pacific Quarterly, Flinders University, 1978) Daalder, Joost
    A review of poetry by Tim Pickford. Many of Pickford's poems seem very personal ones, and are perhaps more striking for their sincerity and enthusiasm than for their poetic qualities.
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    A New Zealand Quarterly
    (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University, 1979) Daalder, Joost
    The author concentrates on some very general questions which he thinks should be asked about any New-Zealand-based quarterly today, and finds that the issue of Landfall under discussion is concerning itself with these questions, steering some sort of middle course between the very apparent 'internationalism' of Pacific Quarterly and the no less conspicuous 'nationalism' of Islands.
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    Denis Glover and the Craft of Poetry
    (Pacific Quarterly, Flinders University, 1980) Daalder, Joost
    The author investigates the evidence in Glover's central volume of poems, Enter Without Knocking, and concludes that the poetic level in them is extraordinarily mixed. In the best poems, there is excellent song-like prosody, delicately suggestive imagery, subtle handling of persons, all in the service of a vigorous Romanticism which does not deny the brutal facts of existence. Unfortunately, with rare exceptions such as The Magpies, the best poems are almost wholly confined to Sings Harry and Arawata Bill. Within the format of Enter Without Knocking this gives us something like 70 out of 170 pages on which we may be confident Glover's reputation will rest.
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    R.A.K. Mason and the Passing of Time
    (Caxton Press, 1981) Daalder, Joost
    R. A. K. Mason (1905-71) is a hauntingly impressive poet who not only shows himself acutely aware of where he is as someone who `Burnt Dian's temple down at Otahuhu' (with an imagination reaching beyond a geographical presence which is nevertheless intensely felt,) but who also has what amounts to a profoundly interesting obsession with the relationship between the present on the one hand, and the past or the future on the other. In this essay, Daalder examines the various ways in which this obsession manifests itself as something ultimately Romantic and modern rather than, say, Christian as that word might have been understood in, for example, the Renaissance.
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    R.A.K. Mason: The Poet as a Pacific Christ
    (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University, 1981) Daalder, Joost
    The vast majority of Mason's poems derive their individual character not only from his use of language, but also, and above all, from his perceiving of himself as a Christ in New Zealand, ignored and victimised by a society consisting of Pharisees.
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    Irony in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry
    (Taylor & Francis, 1982) Daalder, Joost
    Previously, the author has presented R.A.K. Mason as essentially a sensitive modern romantic at odds with the New Zealand where he spent his life from 1905-1971, and with, in a larger sense, not only man but also the universe itself. Concentrating on this side of his sensibility, the author has rather tended to ignore Mason's technique, and in the present essay he wishes to redress the balance somewhat by examining the kind of ironic devices Mason uses, and to what effect he puts them.
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    Ambiguity and Ambivalence in R.A.K. Mason
    (Kunapipi, 1983) Daalder, Joost
    The author examines one of R.A.K. Mason's best known poems, Ecce Homunculus, with concern for some of the poem's ambiguities and the possibility that they reveal ambivalence, or at least a richness of meaning, rather than trivial word games or ineptitude. The Christ figure in the poem could be seen as a disguise for the poet himself, victimized by New Zealand society, but no matter whether Mason saw himself as Christ or not, it is more important to note that his attitude to the Christ figure is ambivalent.
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    Lack of Potency
    (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University, 1984) Daalder, Joost
    The author discusses a collection of New Zealand short stories, and concludes his discussion by saying "that the quality of literature depends, not on time or place, but on the calibre of the author's ability to grasp fundamentals of human existence and to give imaginative shape to them."
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    What happens in Sargeson's "That Summer"? A study of romantic 'mateship'
    (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Singapore, 1985) Daalder, Joost
    Frank Sargeson's "That Summer" is, amongst his 'short' stories, not only by far the longest in the genre in which amongst New Zealand writers he probably reigns supreme, but also an important library work to study. The story - or short novel - has on the whole been well received, but hardly examined. [...] What happens in "That Summer"? And by this I do not mean that there are not a great many events which we can see, but rather [...] that we need to ask ourselves what happens that we do not see, both in terms of events and of significance.
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    Violence in the stories of Frank Sargeson
    (Massey University, New Zealand, 1986) Daalder, Joost
    'The stories of Frank Sargeson' contains the bulk of the short fiction produced by New Zealand's foremost writer. Despite Sargeson's fame, it seems that his stories, particularly those portraying violence, are generally misinterpreted.
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    "The Hole..." as Romantic. No. 1 of "Three readings of Sargeson's 'The Hole That Jack Dug'"
    (The South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1986) Daalder, Joost
    The author suggests that one reason for accepting Frank Sargeson's stories as realistic is that there have been no close analyses of any of them. In discussing "The hole that Jack dug" the author aims to show that such a mature Sargeson story is indeed romantic, as well as to throw light on the way it is put together.
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    The Religious Experience in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry
    (Editions Rodopi, 1996) Daalder, Joost
    When I first read R.A.K. Mason's poems several years ago, I was inclined to see the Christ figure in them as essentially - or at least most frequently - a reflection of the author himself, in the role of a victim of his New Zealand society circa 1920-1930. I do not resign from this view now to the extent of seeing it seriously mistaken. But I have come to see that Mason's portrayal of Christ is not as simple as I once thought, and my present awareness that there is more to it also prompts me to consider the more general question of the religious experience within Mason's poems.
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    R.A.K. Mason's Universality
    (Rinsen Books, Kyoto, 1998) Daalder, Joost
    Mason is writing about the plight of man, trapped in a hostile place, i.e. our planet, which, in the space of the universe as a whole, is 'fixed at the friendless outer edge'. Even if perhaps a poet in an isolated country might see our earthly existence more readily in these terms than someone in, say, London, the fact remains that Mason does not draw attention to the origin of his feeling as inspired by his country, and that he produces a statement couched in general terms, as though it has universal applicability.