http://hdl.handle.net/2328/112 2013-06-07T17:06:13Z 2013-06-07T17:06:13Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25742 2013-05-13T02:03:54Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Irony in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: 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.

1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25655 2013-05-13T02:03:35Z 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: R.A.K. Mason: The Poet as a Pacific Christ Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: 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.

1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25653 2013-05-13T02:03:32Z 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: R.A.K. Mason's Universality Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: 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.

1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25576 2013-05-13T02:03:27Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Religious Experience in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: 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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