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Bernice Reubens - Womens Book Festival Wellington
No full textIn a session chaired by Lydia Wevers, English novelist Bernice Reubens talks about writing and answers questions. Women's Book festival, Wellington 20/09/1989. Radio New Zealand recording
Recent Writings: Dinah Hawken reads poems with Elizabeth Knox.
No full textRecent Writings, chaired by Lydia Wevers. Dinah Hawken reads 12 short poems, and prose poems, in a session with Elizabeth Knox. Women's Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
Lydia H. Hart Diary
No full textDiary, 1823-1830, 1875 and loose papers 1813, 1831, and undated of Lydia H. Hart of Richmond, Virginia and later Walden, Orange County, New York. The Diary was started by Lydia H. Hart, the wife of Reverend William H. Hart, who was the rector of St. John’s Church in Richmond, VA and later St. Andrews Church in Walden, New York. Diary entries include day-to-day activities and meetings with local neighbors and church patron’s. These neighbors included Elizabeth Van Lew and her parents, which Lydia Hart writes about several times. Most dated entries also include discussion of specific bible verses or Rev. Hart’s sermons. Notable entries include a description of the funeral service for Rev. John Buchanan, former rector of St. John’s Church from 1795 to 1822. Diary entries are chronological and more frequent for 1823 and become less frequent in 1823. In 1828, Lydia Hart moved to New York and eventually to Walden, New York in May 1830.At the end of the diary entries is an entry form another author, possibly by Mary. W. Hart dated 1875. Lydia Hart died in 1831 and could not have made the entry.At the back of the diary and upside down to the diary entries are transcriptions of letters and poems of Lydia Hart’s to various newspapers and and personnel correspondence. Entries include a plea for support to the city of Richmond to take care of its ‘destitute children’, letters to the editor of local newspapers, and poems for the birth of a child or death of a patron.Loose papers include a letter dated Jan 8th 1813, a bequeath request from William H. Hart for the placement of a Tombstone for Lydia Hart, a table of contents for various letters or sermons, a letter from William Hart to a friend from Richmond, and 2 loose undated papers of unknown authorship. The letter from William Hart speaks of the events of Lydia’s death, and inquiries about events taking place in Richmond
Recent Writings: Sue Reidy and Lauris Edmond.
No full textIn a session of "Recent Writings" with Lauris Edmond and Sue Reidy, chaired by Lydia Wevers. Edmond reads the following poems; The Lecture, Rhineland, Worser Bay School, Ward Island, Lake Ontrario, Hydroslide, Break down. Women's Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
The New Zealand short story a panel discussion with Fiona Kidman ...[et al.].
No full textAlso with Owen Marshall, Chris Else and Vincent O'Sullivan.Presented at the writers and readers week held during the 2nd New Zealand International Festival of the Arts,Wellington, 18 March 1988.Recorded by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.Chairperson: Lydia Wevers
Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis
No full textWhen an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona. Lydia Davis translated six books by Maurice Blanchot, including fiction and theoretical writings. Blanchot’s concept of the récit privileges non-conventional forms of narrative and it can be considered to have influenced Davis, a view shared in critical writing about Davis. However, responses to his fiction can also be found in Davis’s work. This article reads Lydia Davis’s story “Story” as a response to Maurice Blanchot’s récit, La Folie du jour, translated by Davis as “The Madness of the Day”. Both texts develop a narrative that questions the possibility of arriving at a single story: Blanchot’s narrator cannot tell the story of how he came to have glass ground into his eyes, while Davis’s narrator must try to understand a contradictory story told to her by her lover. However, Davis responds to Blanchot by reversing the perspective in the story: where Blanchot’s narrator must and cannot create a story that explains his situation in a judicial/medical context, Davis’s narrator is struggling to understand her lover’s story which does not explain the situation that they find themselves in. Davis’s narrator is therefore motivated by an emotional need to find an acceptable story that is absent from Blanchot’s narrator. This difference in motivation is central to the difference between Davis’s and Blanchot’s approach, and complicates any reading of his influence on her because she responds to his text in her own
Recent Writings: Jenny Bornholdt and Patricia Grace.
No full textIn a session of "Recent Writings" with Patricia Grace and Jenny Bornholdt chaired by Lydia Wevers. Bornholt reads the following poems; From "West Coast," Weighing up the Heart, In Love, Spring, From Behind the Hedge, The Watch. Womens' Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
New Writings: Heather Marshall and Anne French.
No full textIn a session of "New Writings" with Anne French and Heather Marshall, chaired by Lydia Wevers. French reads from manuscript poems; Editing, The Lady Fisherman from the "Marine Observers Handbook", The Words, Journeys, Knowledge and Belis K, Visiting Hekeroa Bay. Women's Book Festival, Wellington 19/09/1989
Regional and Industry Cycles in Australasia: Implications for a Common Currency
No full textIf two countries experience similar cycles, loss in monetary sovereignty following currency union may not be severe. Analysis of cyclical similarity is frequently carried out at the overall industry level, then interpreted with reference to regional industrial structures. By contrast, this paper explicitly incorporates regional industry structure into an examination of Australasian cycles. Since 1991, NZ and Australasian cycles have been highly correlated, but there is little evidence that the NZ cycle has been "caused" by Australian regional or industry cycles. We test whether the NZDAUD exchange rate has insulated NZ from Australian shocks, but find it has not played a major buffering role in response to Australian industry shocks (including mining shocks). Instead, the strongest impacts on the NZDAUD stem from the NZ cycle. An important loss of monetary sovereignty under currency union may therefore arise in response to NZ-specific shocks.
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