The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New...
D'Cruz, Doreen / Ross, John C.
Aloneness, loneliness, isolation, the isola¬ted consciousness, the many possible guises of outsider-status, alienation, and exclusion - these have especial potency in New Zealand life and literature. The pro¬minence of the motif or topos of the man or woman alone has been widely recog¬nized by literary historians and critics, but this work is the first book-length explora¬tion of it, extended to encompass the broader theme of isolation. This s...