TY - BOOK ID - 77933247 TI - The littoral zone : Australian contexts and their writers AU - Cranston, CA. AU - Zeller, Robert. PY - 2007 SN - 1282265326 9786612265327 9401204519 1435612329 9781435612327 9042022183 9789042022188 9789401204514 9042022183 9789042022188 PB - Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York, NY : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Australian literature KW - Nature in literature. KW - Australian literature. KW - Nature in poetry KW - History and criticism. UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933247 AB - In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment—rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There’s the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that ‘appropriates’ Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can “persuade us to rejoice” in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where “the mountains meet the sea”; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its ‘timeless’ icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of ‘Australia’. ER -