The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Herausgeber: Gildersleeve, Jessica

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Produktbeschreibung

This Companion considers anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through critical debates.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Literature Companions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1058g
• ISBN-13: 9780367643560
• ISBN-10: 0367643561
• Artikelnr.: 60594009

Autorenporträt

Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility
Jessica Gildersleeve
Section A: Literature in the Colony
Chapter 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing and Reading
in the 1890s
Roger Osborne
Chapter 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century
Michelle J Smith
Chapter 3 The Metropolis or the Bush?
Megan Brown
Chapter 4 The Weeping Kangaroo
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
Section B: Early Twentieth-Century Australia
Chapter 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century
Australia
Susan Carson
Chapter 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar
Australian Magazines
Sarah Galletly and Victoria Kuttainen
Chapter 7 'Caterpillars of the Commonwealth': Dangerous Books in Australia
Francesca Rendle-Short
Chapter 8 'Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels': Modern Theatre and Patrick White's
Sensuous Dramaturgy
Janet McDonald
Section C: Contemporary Australia
Chapter 9 'Are You With Me?' Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the
1970s
Julian Meyrick and Jenny Fewster
Chapter 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History and the Bicentenary
Eduardo Marks de Marques
Chapter 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction
Nicholas Birns
Chapter 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive
Australian Literary Studies
Jean-François Vernay
Section D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere
Chapter 13 Literary Criticism in Australia
Emmett Stinson
Chapter 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book
Reviewing in Australia
Melinda Harvey and Julieanne Lamond
Chapter 15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere
Alexandra Dane
Chapter 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public
(Media) Sphere
Della Robinson
Chapter 17 Australian Literature in the University
Leigh Dale
Chapter 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?
Maggie Nolan
Section E: Australian Literature and the World
Chapter 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of
Australian Modernism
Melinda J Cooper
Chapter 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies
Devaleena Das
Chapter 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India
David Carter and Paul Sharrad
Chapter 22 Australian Writing about Asia
David Walker
Section F: Key Themes in Australian Writing
Chapter 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction
Peter D Mathews
Chapter 24 Gendering Australian Literature
Alison Bartlett
Chapter 25 'Silence is My Habitat': Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness
Jessica White
Chapter 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature
Daniel Hourigan
Chapter 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative
Nycole Prowse
Chapter 28 'Something New at Hand': Australian Literature and the Sacred
Lyn McCredden
Chapter 29 Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent
Australian Fiction
Clare Archer-Lean
Chapter 30 Landscape (After Mabo)
Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Chapter 31 'The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary': A Brief History of
Australian Suburban Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
Chapter 32 Australian Literature and Everyday Life
Andrew McCann
Chapter 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the Region
Stephanie Green
Section G: Genre in Australian Literary Studies
Chapter 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt and Ella Jeffery
Chapter 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love Wins
Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas
Chapter 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian
Travel Writing
Kate Cantrell
Chapter 37 Australia's Long Relationship with Romance
Tanya Dalziell
Chapter 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and
Practices
Nike Sulway
Chapter 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian Gothic
Gina Wisker
Chapter 40 Australian Television and Literary Criticism
Susan Lever
Chapter 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian Literature
Karina Aveyard