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'The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality.
'This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.' (Publication summary)
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Book Explores a Stormy Relationship between Nature and Culture
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 151-152)
— Review of Cyclone Country : The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature 2020 multi chapter work criticism'In early February 2011, I read that North Queensland was being hit by Cyclone Yasi, a Category 5 storm. When I got online, the first story I encountered was a report of the devastation suffered by Mission Beach, a town I had visited several times when researching E. J. Banfield's Dunk Island books. I was reminded of those visits and that storm in Chrystopher Spicer's book. Although the subtitle speaks of Australian literature generally, it is mostly a book about North Queensland writing.' (Introduction)
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Book Explores a Stormy Relationship between Nature and Culture
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 151-152)
— Review of Cyclone Country : The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature 2020 multi chapter work criticism'In early February 2011, I read that North Queensland was being hit by Cyclone Yasi, a Category 5 storm. When I got online, the first story I encountered was a report of the devastation suffered by Mission Beach, a town I had visited several times when researching E. J. Banfield's Dunk Island books. I was reminded of those visits and that storm in Chrystopher Spicer's book. Although the subtitle speaks of Australian literature generally, it is mostly a book about North Queensland writing.' (Introduction)
