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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’.
Australian literature --- Nature in literature. --- Australian literature. --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism.
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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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Australian literature --- Literature, Modern --- Women --- Women authors --- Women authors
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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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Australian literature --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Literature --- Australia --- English literature