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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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Littérature australienne --- --Australian literature --- Australian literature --- Authors, Australian --- Dictionaries --- Bio-bibliography --- Biography --- Australiensiska litteraturen --- Bio-bibliography. --- Dictionaries. --- Uppslagsbok. --- Australia. --- Australian literature - Dictionaries --- Australian literature - Bio-bibliography --- Authors, Australian - Biography - Dictionaries
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English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Australian poetry --- Australian literature
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Novelists, Australian --- White, Patrick, --- Australian literature --- Biography. --- Friends and associates.
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Australian literature --- -English literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism.
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La pubblicazione si propone quale tributo a Bernard Hickey e alla sua instancabile attività di ‘ambasciatore della cultura australiana’ in Italia e in Europa e di promotore degli studi postcoloniali. Tra le tematiche approfondite, la ‘riconciliazione’, nella sua accezione più ampia, diventa la direttiva portante lungo la quale – in relazione ad ambiti geografici diversi (Canada, Irlanda, Caraibi, Africa, Australia) – vengono affrontati argomenti quali le migrazioni e le diaspore, l’attraversamento di barriere culturali e ideologiche, il multiculturalismo e l’interculturalismo, le contaminazioni e i processi di definizione delle identità. La seconda parte del volume è dedicata alla scrittura creativa di autori emergenti e già noti e raccoglie poesie, racconti brevi, traduzioni e memorie personali.
Australian literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Hickey, Bernard.
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Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon - who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers' houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.
Australian literature --- History and criticism. --- Australia --- In literature.
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Australian literature --- Authors, Australian --- Dictionaries --- Bio-bibliography --- Biography --- Australia --- In literature --- Authors [Australian ] --- Australia in literature --- Australian literature - Dictionaries. --- Australian literature - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries. --- Authors, Australian - Biography - Dictionaries. --- Australia - In literature - Dictionaries. --- Australian literature - Dictionaries --- Australian literature - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries --- Authors, Australian - Biography - Dictionaries
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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 --- Women --- Women authors. --- Literary collections. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Women authors --- Literary collections --- Australian literature - Women authors