CONTENTS

• Marta DVORAK, Foreword, 5
• Marta DVORAK and Christine LORRE, Introduction, 6
  

• Marc DELREZ, The Literal and the Metaphoric: Paradoxes of Figuration in the Work of Janet Frame, 10
• Jean ANDERSON and Nadine RIBAULT, Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame's The Lagoon and Other Stories, 21
• W.H. New, S(words)tories, 33
  

• Allan WEISS, The Form and Function of the Modern Fable in Janet Frame's Short Stories, 43
• Lydia WEVERS, "A girl who is not me," 56
• Mark WILLIAMS, "Tending the ovens": Janet Frame's Politics of Language, 66
• John THIEME, "Making chalk marks on water": Time and the Sea in Janet Frame's Faces in the Water and "The Lagoon," 78
  

• Christine LORRE, Secrets in The Lagoon and Other Stories, 87
• Simone OETTLI, Janet Frame's Conceptualization of the Writing Process: From The Lagoon to Mirror City, 98
• Cindy GABRIELLE, Fences of Being: The Child in the World in Janet Frame's "A Note on the Russian War," "Prizes" and "Royal Icing," 110

• Janet WILSON, The Lagoon and Other Stories: Storytelling, Metafiction and the Framean Text, 124
• Marta DVORAK, Frame-breaking: "neither separate nor complete nor very important," 137
  

Reviews

• Peter MARSDEN, Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel, 150
• Marc DELREZ, Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence. Ed. Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold, 152
• Christine LORRE, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Vol. 5, 1922-1923. Ed. Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott, 154
• Jean ANDERSON, Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. By Christina Stachurski, 155

• The Writing of The Lagoon Stories, by Pamela Gordon, Literary Executor, Janet Frame Literary Trust, 159