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Peter Carey is one of Australia's finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey's literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer's fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer's biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of 'postist' theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.
Carey, Peter --- Criticism and interpretation --- Australian literature --- Australian literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Carey (peter), 1943 --- -Australian literature
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English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Australian poetry --- Australian literature
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Australian literature --- Australian poetry --- Australian fiction --- Australian essays
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After decades of strict, puritanical censorship, Australian writers are free to address sexual issues. But sex remains a controversial and disturbing topic-its representation in poetry or fiction can never be free of ambiguities and still requires a variety of literary strategies to be made acceptable. Messengers of Eros examines those strategies and offers close readings of many Australian literary texts. It revisits classics such as Coonardoo, Capricornia or Such Is Life as well as major ...
Sex in literature. --- Australian literature --- Aboriginal Australian literature --- Australian aboriginal literature --- Australian literature (Aboriginal) --- History and criticism. --- Littérature australienne --- Sexe --- Auteurs aborigènes d'Australie --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature
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Australian literature --- Letterkunde. --- Engels. --- Australian literature. --- History and criticism --- English literature --- periodika. --- Literature. --- English. --- 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA.
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Short stories, Australian. --- Aboriginal Australians in literature. --- Australian literature --- Aboriginal Australian literature (English) --- Australian aborigines in literature --- Australian short stories --- Australian fiction --- Aboriginal Australian authors. --- Australian aboriginal authors
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Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940sexplores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature's connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures.
Australian literature. --- English literature --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Publishers and publishing --- Australian literature --- History --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Book dealers --- Book sales --- Dealers, Book --- Publishing
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Travel adventure, love story and tracicomedy, Exposure is about wanting too much, choosing too little, and how a person can spend three weeks solid in Los Angeles buying a sleeping bag.Joel Magarey's life would be fine if not for one thing - his brain. Prey to strange compulsions and grandiose visions, 25-year-old Joel abandons Australia, his job in journalism and his girlfriend, the wise and tender Penny, and sets off on the global journey of his dreams.Those dreams hadn't included nearly drowning in Alaska, setting fire to his tent on the Bolivian altiplano or terrifying a Korean family with
Travelers --- Journalists --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Magarey, Joel, --- Australian literature
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This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, violence and madness, or their illuminated landscapes that point to the consolations of a world beyond fiction, give new intensity to Murnane's habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the wri
Australian fiction. --- Biographical fiction. --- Biographic fiction --- Biographical novels --- Biography --- Fiction --- Australian literature
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Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations-the 'empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhab...
Australian literature --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Aboriginal Australian authors --- Mobilité sociale --- Espace --- Temps --- Aspect social