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Anglistische Forschungen Winter Verlag (publisher), series - publisher
1 y separately published work icon The Adolescent Nation : Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film Victoria Herche , Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2021 24574956 2021 multi chapter work criticism

'Deeply rooted in Australia's construction as a young nation, 'coming of age' has been the defining narrative of Australia's national cinema. This book provides the first study which explores the 'coming of age' theme in Australian feature films produced since the turn of the millennium, foregrounding how films use a range of diverse (his)stories to respond to the centrality of this theme.

'Rather than focusing on 'coming of age' mainly in its portrayal of a (successful) maturation process, this study explores the possibilities inherent in what is conceived of as a 'permanently' transitional 'coming of age' process, providing a crucial starting point for the re-definition of national fictions. A range of cinematic genres, including the road movie, crime film, sport film, romance and musical, is used to challenge and (to varying degrees) destabilize the national myth of Australia as a youthful, egalitarian society with a chance and 'fair go ' for everyone.' (Publication summary)
1 1 y separately published work icon Border Crossings : Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures and Media Russell West-Pavlov (editor), Jennifer Wawrzinek (editor), Justus Makokha (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2012 Z1858265 2012 anthology criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture Russell West-Pavlov , Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2011 Z1819744 2011 selected work criticism 'How can contemporary Australian literature and culture be ‘imagined’ from abroad? What particular refractions may emerge out of an expatriate reflection upon Antipodean literature and culture? This collection of essays summarizes fifteen years’ work done from an explicitly European perspective. The unashamedly outside perspective these essays present envisages a largely ‘imaginary Antipodes’ whose character is regarded from four distinct angles: indigenous literary production, white settler identities, migrant destinies, and the global construction of Australian literature, thereby gesturing towards the transnational perspective that furnishes the framing rationale for the collection itself. The thirteen essays range over a broad selection of literary and filmic texts, from classics such as Patrick White and Crocodile Dundee, via Castro, Davison, Fremd, Gooneratne, Grenville, Hall, Hospital, Lawrence, McGahan, Malouf, Martin, Morgan, Scott, Teo, or Yasbincek, through to wider issues such as indigenous poetry, the post-Mabo ‘history wars’ of the 1990s, and the global translation of Australian literature' (Publisher blurb).
1 y separately published work icon From Interculturalism to Transculturalism : Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts Mediating encounters in cosmopolitan contexts Heinz Antor (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2010 Z1833621 2010 anthology criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 Russell West-Pavlov (editor), Jennifer Wawrzinek (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2010 Z1797661 2010 anthology criticism "The frontier has been the central metaphorical figure governing discursive configurations in the last two decades in Australia. The cultural landscape since the Australian High Court's 'Mabo' decision of 1992 has been increasingly openly defined as a site of animosity and hostility. Frontiers, both real and imagined, past and present, continue to haunt the cultural landscape of Australia. This volume explores a range of paraliterary and literary discussion of recent years which can be interpreted as displacements into the cultural realm of erstwhile frontier conflicts along the borders of white colonial settlement. The collection gathers together a distinguished group of scholars and writers from Australia, Europe and Asia to investigate the dual manifestations of frontiers - both genuinely historiographical and more broadly metaphorical - in the cultural debates taking place in the Australian public sphere from the early 1990s onwards. Long since terminated as real armed conflicts, these past skirmishes none the less continue to resonate in the consciousness of white Australia, leaving their mark upon literary texts, films, artworks, and public discourse."--Back cover.
1 y separately published work icon Outlaws, Fakes and Monsters : Doubleness, Transgression and the Limits of Fiction Chris Boge , Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2009 Z1810236 2009 single work criticism

'Peter Carey is one of the most remarkable writers of our day and age. The characters and narrators that populate his twisted postmodern and postcolonial plot structures are conceived as fakes and tricksters, monstrously distorted creatures and disturbed Antipodeans, struggling for possible meanings of life in the global fringes and beyond. Offering a critical analysis of terms such as liminality and transgression, this comparative study examines the intricate interweaving of faction in True History of the Kelly Gang, follows Christopher Chubb into the entanglements between the gnarled tropical trees of Malaysia and the dark recesses of the storyteller's mind in My Life as a Fake, and joins the Bones Brothers on their journey to Japan and the US in Theft: A Love Story, a book on art, integrity and complicity. Moreover, for the first time in a book-length study, His Illegal Self will be interpreted and placed in the context of ethical criticism and cosmopolitan theory.' (Source: Publisher website).

Contents:

  • Circumferences, Perimeters, Crossings, or, Decoding the Book's Subtitle: An Introduction
  • The Ned Kelly Puzzle: True History of the Kelly Gang and the Commodification of an Enigma
  • Begetting the Monster: My Life as a Fake
  • Between Beauty and Horror: Theft: A Love Story
  • Conclusion, No Conclusion, or, Selves, Societies, Stories: An Outlook
1 y separately published work icon Cultural Studies in The EFL Classroom Cultural Studies in The English as a Foreign Language Classroom Werner Delanoy (editor), Laurenz Volkmann (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2006 Z1826601 2006 anthology criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures Rudiger Ahrens (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2005 Z1554469 2005 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon From 'English Literature' to 'Literatures in English' : International Perspectives : Festschrift in Honour of Wolfgang Zach Michael Kenneally (editor), Rona Richman Kenneally (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2005 Z1385230 2005 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia : Appropriations, Continuities, Contexts Rudiger Ahrens (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2003 Z1922096 2003 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Xenophobic Memories : Otherness in Postcolonial Constructions of the Past Monika Gomille (editor), Klaus Stierstorfer (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2003 Z1126233 2003 anthology criticism Publisher's blurb on back cover: 'The function of memory and oral traditions in recuperations or constructions of complex historical narratives have recently become a focus of research by critics of literature and culture, notably in the area of the New English Literatures. What is most frequently foregrounded in these explorations is the positive, relief-like structure of memory in its selective and combinatory functions. The purpose of the studies presented in this volume will, however, emphasize aspects of otherness and outright xenophobia which frequently are excluded from constructed pasts. The elements are, nevertheless, powerful forces in the construction of personal histories as much as of cultural memory. Contributions in this volume explore this field in all its geographic and cultural richness, from Japan to Africa and from Australia and Asia to Canada; from Jewish fiction to travel literature as well as in obviously central texts of the English "canon".'
1 y separately published work icon Utopie und Dystopie in den neuen englischen Literaturen Ralph Pordzik (editor), Hans Ulrich Seeber (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2002 Z955961 2002 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon English Literatures in International Contexts Heinz Antor (editor), Klaus Stierstorfer (editor), Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 2000 Z824672 2000 anthology criticism Collection of essays featuring critical case studies of anglophone writings in their international contexts and theoretical conceptualisations of major cultural factors. Contributors include Bill Ashcroft, Malcolm Bradbury, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Helen Tiffin.
1 y separately published work icon Anglistik 1990 Heidelberg : Winter Verlag , 1990- Z1808692 1990 periodical (3 issues)
5 y separately published work icon The Coxswain J. E. Macdonnell , London Melbourne : Horwitz , 1960 Z1257321 1960 single work novel war literature adventure In every battle Wind Rode had come out on top. Weapons, whether aircraft cannon or submarine torpedo or destroyer guns, were aimed and fired by men. The destroyer's men had proved superior in the handling of theirs. Now the train of successes had been broken. They had six big guns and multiplicity of other weapons: they should have got those Jap aircraft. As it was a lucky shot from the Oerlikon saved them from disaster. It was not seamanship or training: simply a problem of morale. For the coxswain. - Publisher's blurb, back cover
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