Born: Established: 16 Jul 1932 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Sep 2013 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
AustLit
Details of Works Taught
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
The Boys in the Island
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
1958
Z494737
1958
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Francis Cullen, growing up in the island of Tasmania, is outwardly a very ordinary boy. But his inner life is dominated by dreams of a place he calls the Otherland: a transfigured world beyond the real one. In childhood, he glimpses it in the landscapes of his native island; and when he falls in love with a country girl, the dream is central to his feelings for her. After Heather is lost to him, Francis comes more and more under the influence of Lewie Matthews - a youth whose ambition is to become a criminal. Now the Otherland's location is seen as the mainland of Australia, where a mythical life of wildness and crime beckons. Francis, Lewie and their friends pursue this life in Melbourne - until a climax of destruction shatters the dream.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins 2013 ed.) |
Literature of Tasmania | University of Tasmania | 2009 (Semester 1) |
y
The Boys in the Island
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
1958
Z494737
1958
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Francis Cullen, growing up in the island of Tasmania, is outwardly a very ordinary boy. But his inner life is dominated by dreams of a place he calls the Otherland: a transfigured world beyond the real one. In childhood, he glimpses it in the landscapes of his native island; and when he falls in love with a country girl, the dream is central to his feelings for her. After Heather is lost to him, Francis comes more and more under the influence of Lewie Matthews - a youth whose ambition is to become a criminal. Now the Otherland's location is seen as the mainland of Australia, where a mythical life of wildness and crime beckons. Francis, Lewie and their friends pursue this life in Melbourne - until a climax of destruction shatters the dream.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins 2013 ed.) |
Writing Tasmania | University of Tasmania | 2015 (Semester 1) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2013 (Semester 2) |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian literature | Campion College | 2013 (Semester 2) |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2009 |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2010 |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2012 (Semester 2) |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2015 (Semester 2) |
y
The Doubleman
Christopher Koch
,
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1985
Z388681
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
'Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars of today opened up. Christopher Koch's theme is illusion; and all his characters are bound by it. The Rymers are an electric folk group enjoying mounting success in Sydney. Their producer, Richard Miller, came under Broderick's spell during his youth in Tasmania; so did the guitarists Brady and Burr. Now, years after his death, Broderick's presence remains with all three. Through his disciple, Burr, it will lead to nightmare.' Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins, 2013 ed.) |
Australian Literature | Campion College | 2016 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
Highways to a War
Christopher Koch
,
New York (City)
:
Viking
,
1995
Z456830
1995
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
'When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) | Edith Cowan University | 2009 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y The Memory Room Christopher Koch , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 2007 Z1438763 2007 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Vincent Austin thinks his devotion to secrecy for its own sake makes him a born spy. His childhood friend Erika Lange shares his fascination with the covert. Having graduated University Vincent is recruited by ASIS - Australia's overseas secret intelligence service. Erika eventually joins Foreign Affairs as a press officer. As the Cold War reaches its final peak, the fantasies of youth have become reality for Vincent and Erika, but they lead to a tragic climax. It is left to Vincent's university friend Bradley, who inherits Vincent's diaries, to contemplate their story. - from Back cover. | Honours Seminar 4 (English) | University of Western Australia | 2009 (Semester 1, Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Koch
,
West Melbourne
:
Nelson
,
1978
Z493822
1978
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax.' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Literature and Film | Charles Sturt University | 2016 (Semester 1) |
y
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Koch
,
West Melbourne
:
Nelson
,
1978
Z493822
1978
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax.' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Reorientations in Australian Literature | University of Sydney | 2009 (Semester 1) |