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James Courage


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Anthology
Such separate creatures: stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1973. Voyager link
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Article
"Jezebel." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 2.2; Nov (1999): 18-27.
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Novel
A Way of Love. London: Cape, 1959. Voyager link
Landfall 13; June (1959): 178-179.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) January 16 (1959): 29-29.
Desire without Content. London: Constable, 1950. Voyager link
Landfall 5; Dec (1951): 313-315.
Fires in the Distance. London: Constable, 1952. Voyager link
Listener 27.698; November 21 (1952): 13-13.
Landfall 25; Mar (1953): 69-71.
"James Courages Fires in the Distance: a reassessment." Commonwealth Novel in English 1.1; Jan (1982): 15-36.
The Call Home. London: Cape, 1956. Voyager link
Landfall 40; Dec (1956): 347-350.
The Fifth Child. London: Constable, 1948. Voyager link
Landfall 3; Mar (1949): 72-73.
"Comments on the year's fiction." Arts Year book 6; (1950): 145-148.
The Visit to Penmorten. London: Cape, 1961. Voyager link
Landfall 59; Sept (1961): 269-271.
The Young Have Secrets. London: Cape, 1954. Voyager link
Listener 35.897; October 12 (1956): 12-12.
Landfall 10; Dec (1956): 347-351.
Landfall 34; June (1955): 165-167.
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Short Story
"A smile on Sunday." Landfall 1.2; June (1947): 85-93.
"After the earthquake." Landfall 8; Dec (1948): 298-307.
"An evening for a fish." Landfall 35; Sept (1955): 185-192.
"Flowers on the table." Landfall 44; Dec (1957): 288-295.
"Guest at the wedding." Landfall 26; June (1953): 117-129.
"Scusi." Landfall 30; June (1954): 96-110.
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Short Story Collection
The long white cloud: stories from New Zealand. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008. (Note: illustrated by Chris King)
 

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Article
Wilson, Phillip. "Expatriate novelist." Listener 27.698; November 21 (1952): 12-13.
Young, D. "Courage in exile." Listener 101.2211; June 12 (1982): 24-24.
Wilson, Tim. "A gay outing." Listener February 1 (1997): 48-49.
Ansley, Bruce. "Ban that book." Listener November 14 (1998): 28-28.
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Criticism
Macaskill, Patrick. "Comments on the year's fiction." Arts Year book 6; (1950): 145-148.
Stanley, Mary. New Zealand Literature: a Survey. Oxford University Press, London, 1959.
Rhodes, H. Winston. New Zealand fiction since 1945 : a critical survey of recent novels and short stories. J. McIndoe, Dunedin, 1968.
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Essay
Copland, R.A. "The New Zealand novels of James Courage." Landfall 18; Sept (1964): 235-249.
Brasch, Charles. "Introduction." Such Separate Creatures: stories. Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1973.
Dowling, David. "James Courages Fires in the Distance: a reassessment." Commonwealth Novel in English 1.1; Jan (1982): 15-36.
Copland, R.A. The fictive picture: Cole, Courage, Davin. In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Short Story. Heinemann, Auckland, 1982.
Parkinson, Phil. "Lesbian and gay archives in New Zealand: a minority gathers its own history." Archifacts 4; (1984): 7-14.
Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. "A bourgeois blue? Nationalism and letters from the 1920s to the 1950s." Landfall 41.3; Sept (1987): 293-311.
Giffuni, Cathe. "James Courage: a bibliography: a checklist of published primary and secondary sources 1925-1986." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 5; (1987): 92-103.
"James Courage: a checklist of literary manuscripts held at the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 5; (1987): 104-110.
Wells, Peter. Introduction: modest achievements. In: Best Mates: Gay Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Reed, Auckland, 1997.
Lee, John A. "James Courage and Jezebel: an unpublished story." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 2.2; Nov (1999): 18-27.
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Obituary
Wilson, Phillip. "James Courage: a recollection." Landfall 18; Sept (1964): 234-235.
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Thesis
Harris, Grant Richard. A reading of the novels of James Courage [microform]: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University. 1990.
Lee, John. A private history: towards a biography of James Courage, expatriate New Zealand writer: a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of in English. Victoria University of Wellington, 2001.
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