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Tom McLean
The intended audience of mid-twentieth century New Zealand short stories have been relatively little discussed
 
I use the non-fictional antecedents of stories by Dan Davin (Coming and Going) and Maurice Duggan (Riley's Handbook) to suggest that in reading stories written at first for small and particular audiences, we need to be alert to private meanings meant for one circle of readers as well as the more obvious readings meant for the general public.
 
Biography
Tom McLean's MA thesis, at Victoria University of Wellington, was a critical edition of a selection from the diaries kept by Dan Davin during the Second World War. After a year at the University of Toronto, he is about to begin a D.Phil at Oxford, discussing Joyce Cary.
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