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The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers
C. A. Cranston
(editor),
Robert Zeller
(editor),
Amsterdam
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Rodopi
,
2007
Z1422293
2007
anthology
criticism
'In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where "the mountains meet the sea"; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its 'timeless' icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of 'Australia'.'
Source: Rodopi website, http://www.rodopi.nl
Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2007 pg. 153-175
Sighted: 28/08/2007
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The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers
C. A. Cranston
(editor),
Robert Zeller
(editor),
Amsterdam
:
Rodopi
,
2007
Z1422293
2007
anthology
criticism
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- Australian Dewdrops : The Storm Clouds 1868 single work poetry
- My Brilliant Career 1901 single work novel
- Looking Down on Canberra 1957 single work poetry
- Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961 sequence poetry
- Works and Days 1989 sequence poetry
- The Point 2003 single work novel
- Canberra region (NSW), Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,