ENGLISH 221

New Zealand Literature

Description

Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December
 

Availability 2025

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Reading/Texts

TBA

Recommended Reading

Terry Sturm ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature, 2nd ed. (Auckland: OUP, 1998)

Patrick Evans, The Long Forgetting (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2008)

Alex Calder, The Settler’s Plot: How Stories Take Place In New Zealand (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011)

Tina Makereti, ‘Indigenous literary Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand’ (online: OUP, 2020) 

Assessment

Coursework only

Points

ENGLISH 221: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage I in English

Restrictions

ENGLISH 355