Parnassus Mad Ward

Parnassus Mad Ward PDF Author: Livio A. C. Dobrez
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Detailed study of the New Australian Poetry of the 70s and 80s based around the central figure of Michael Dransfield. Attempts to place the poets and their work into the broader local and international cultural milieu of the times. One of the TStudies in Australian Literature' series.

Parnassus Mad Ward

Parnassus Mad Ward PDF Author: Livio A. C. Dobrez
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Book Description
Detailed study of the New Australian Poetry of the 70s and 80s based around the central figure of Michael Dransfield. Attempts to place the poets and their work into the broader local and international cultural milieu of the times. One of the TStudies in Australian Literature' series.

The Moment Made Marvellous

The Moment Made Marvellous PDF Author: Thomas W. Shapcott
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702230127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
With poems by 70 of Australia's finest contemporary poets, this incomparable selection provides a delectable tour of our poetry from 1968 to 1998.

Departures

Departures PDF Author: Xavier Pons
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522849950
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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A collection of essays by various Australian and European authors on a wide range of Australian cultural topics, this is a story of struggle and achievement and occasional failure. Departures deals with innovation and transgression in Australian literature and history and brings out the vitality of Australian culture as it meets new challenges.

The Magic Phrase

The Magic Phrase PDF Author: Margaret Harris
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702225062
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published.

Writing in Hope and Fear

Writing in Hope and Fear PDF Author: John McLaren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A compelling critical and historical account of politics in postwar Australian literary culture.

Dancing on Hot Macadam

Dancing on Hot Macadam PDF Author: Anthony J. Hassall
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702230356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This is the first comprehensive study of one of the world's most gifted and exciting writers. It follows Peter Carey's career from the nightmare-haunted stories of The Fat Man in History and War Crimes to the madcap satire of Bliss, from Illywhacker's picaresque landscapes to Oscar and Lucinda's glittering achievement, and the powerfully confronting vision of The Tax Inspector. Dancing on Hot Macadam is a lucid account of Peter Carey's fiction and its intriguing critical reception. It explores his preoccupation with imprisonment and metamorphosis, and the desire of his characters to escape from bewildering roles, relationships and societies.Dancing on Hot Macadam is another volume in the excellent Studies inAustralian Literature series ... It is a sound and persuasive critique thatgets much better as it goes along.Times Literary SupplementThe book contains a lot of ideas ... and will be the base from which to drawthe map of Carey's fiction as it develops further.Julian Croft Weekend Australian

Antipodes

Antipodes PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Attuned to Alien Moonlight

Attuned to Alien Moonlight PDF Author: Dennis Haskell
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702232381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Bruce Dawe is widely appreciated as a social satirist, but many readers are unaware of the range and various dimensions of his poetry. Dennis Haskall offers an insightful exploration of all Dawe's poetry from his first publication in 1954 to 2001.

The Forms of Youth

The Forms of Youth PDF Author: Stephanie Burt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231512023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry. Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. William Carlos Williams and his contemporaries fashioned their American verse in response to the idealization of new kinds of youth in the 1910s and 1920s. W. H. Auden's early work, Philip Larkin's verse, Thom Gunn's transatlantic poetry, and Basil Bunting's late-modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts, all track the development of adolescence in Britain as it moved from the private space of elite schools to the urban public space of sixties subcultures. The diversity of American poetry from the Second World War to the end of the sixties illuminates poets' reactions to the idea that teenagers, juvenile delinquents, hippies, and student radicals might, for better or worse, transform the nation. George Oppen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Lowell in particular built and rebuilt their sixties styles in reaction to changing concepts of youth. Contemporary poets continue to fashion new ideas of youth. Laura Kasischke and Jorie Graham focus on the discoveries of a specifically female adolescence. The Irish poet Paul Muldoon and the Australian poet John Tranter use teenage perspectives to represent a postmodernist uncertainty. Other poets have rejected traditional and modern ideas of adolescence, preferring instead to view this age as a reflection of the uncertainties and restricted tastes of the way we live now. The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry PDF Author: Neil Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.