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Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Cambridge Scholars Press
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2009
Z1572958
2009
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'After decades of strict, puritanical censorship, Australian writers are free to address sexual issues. But sex remains a controversial and disturbing topic - its representation in poetry or fiction can never be free of ambiguities and still requires a variety of literary strategies to be made acceptable.
Messengers of Eros examines those strategies and offers close readings of many Australian literary texts. It revisits classics such as Coonardoo, Capricornia or Such Is Life as well as major modern writers such as Patrick White, Peter Carey, David Malouf or Richard Flanagan, and engages with contemporary works whose status is still a matter for debate. It takes into account the postcolonial context of Australia's culture, especially where Indigenous and multicultural writers are concerned.
This original and compelling book draws on the lessons of French theory and, though its approach is sympathetic to postmodernism, it never falls into academic jargon, remaining easily accessible to the general reader.' (Publisher's blurb)
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press , 2009 pg. 1-9
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Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Cambridge Scholars Press
,
2009
Z1572958
2009
single work
criticism
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