Cover -- By the Same Author -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Katherine Mansfield:The Art of the 'Fiction' -- Katherine Mansfield:The Letters and Journals -- Katherine Mansfield's Life -- Frank Sargeson:The Realist and the Sprite -- Frank Sargeson's Peon -- A. R.D. Fairburn:The Argument Against -- R.A. K. Mason: Bringing Disorder to Life -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Living on the Grand -- Allen Curnow: Poet of the Real -- Second Wind:Allen Curnow's Continuum -- Allen Curnow, 1911-2001 -- John Mulgan:A Question of Identity -- Hubert Witheford: Rhetoric and Wit -- Maurice Duggan: Language is Humanity -- Kendrick Smithyman: Hiding the Lunch -- Ronald Hugh Morrieson:The Man from Hawera -- David Ballantyne:Whimsical Losers -- Janet Frame: Language is the Hawk -- A Retrospect: Janet Frame's Pocket Mirror -- King's Frame -- Lauris Edmond -- James K. Baxter:A Loss of Direction -- James K. Baxter:Towards Jerusalem -- Maurice Gee, Moralist -- Witi Ihimaera: Old Wounds and Ancient Evils -- Keri Hulme's the bone people -- Ian Wedde and the 'From Wystan to Carlos' Lecture -- Knox's Oxen -- Dates of Authors who are the Subject of Individual Essays -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.