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1 Peter Carey's Jack Maggs : An Aussie Story? Annegret Maack , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 229-243) 'This essay explores Carey's debt to Dickens, his re-creation of historical London, and his metafictional blending of narratives. In addition, it sounds out the question of whether Carey's narrative transforms this material from an impersonal into an Aussie story' (227).
1 The Transit of Turner Annegret Maack , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 17 no. 1 2003; (p. 71-72)
— Review of George Turner : A Life Judith Raphael Buckrich , 1999 single work biography
1 Erzahlliteratur in Australien seit 1945 : 'helping to people a barely inhabited country' Annegret Maack , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australien : Eine interdisziplinare Einfuhrung 2002; (p. 319-341) 'Erzählliteratur in Australien seit 1945' provides an overview of post-war Australian fiction.
1 1 Hybridizing Genres: Socialism, Neo-Liberalism, or the Third Way: Which Way is Left? Annegret Maack , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 16 no. 2 2002; (p. 215)
— Review of George Turner : A Life Judith Raphael Buckrich , 1999 single work biography
1 'Tragedy, Comedy, History'? : Romanversionen des Hamlet-Stoffes bei John Updike und Damien Broderick Annegret Maack , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik , vol. 50 no. 1 2002; (p. 54-64) Author's abstract: Probably Hamlet is the literary text which has produced the largest number of critical interpretations as well as creative adaptations which themselves have become the object of literary criticism. The following essay concentrates on variations of Hamlet in novels which - different from discussions of Shakespeare's drama in well-known novels like Joyce's Ulysses - choose to situate the plot either in history or in the future. In his Gertrude and Claudius the American author John Updike uses different sources (from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest) and is thus able to write a novel situated in historic times. Though he ends his novel where Shakespeare's drama begins, Updike presents an interpretation of the central characters of Shakespeare's play. [In his novel The White Abacus] the Australian author Damien Broderick situates the Hamlet-plot in space, where his main character Telmah is accompanied by a robot named Ratio (i.e. Horatio). Broderick retains the essential elements of Shakespeare's plot, but decides on a different ending. He structures his novel according to Harold Bloom's terminology of literary tropes in 'The Map of Misprision'. While he adapts Shakespeare's conflict of father and son, his structure refers to the conflict of predecessor and successor formulated in Bloom's Anxiety of Influence. His novel thus is an example of the postmodern conviction that we live in a huge library in which we rearrange old texts. Both novels represent appropriations of Shakespeare by fitting the original text into their own parameters.
1 Geschichte(n) von der Zukunft Australiens : "Exploratory Fiction" von Rodney Hall, George Turner und Damien Broderick Annegret Maack , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Utopie und Dystopie in den neuen englischen Literaturen 2002; (p. 91-108)
1 No Tyranny of Distance : The Reception of Publications on Australia in 'The Athenaeum' 1828-1850 Annegret Maack , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 17 no. 4 1996; (p. 386-397)
1 "Can We Ever Understand Alien Cultures": Christopher Koch und Blanche D'Alpuget Annegret Maack , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australien zwischen Europa und Asien 1993; (p. 123-133)
1 Shakespearean Reference as Structural Principle in Patrick White's "The Tree of Man" and"The Eye of the Storm" Annegret Maack , 1978 single work
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 38 no. 2 1978; (p. 123-140)
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