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'In this paper Paul Sharrad suggests that Murray Bail 'could not have produced most of his work without journeying abroad, and that his book of travel observations, Longhand, offers insights into one particular kind of 'journeying' as well as his reliance on material picked up along his journeying out from and back to Australia. While he began serious writing around the age of 19 in his native South Australia, and composed some other stories during his years in Melbourne working in advertising, Bail did not really get going as a published writer until he had been overseas for several years, first in India and then England and Europe. His jottings in Longhand: a Writer's Notebook, show on the one hand, how his sense of being a writer affects his recording of the travel experience, and secondly, how much his travels have had an impact on his fiction.'' (25-26)
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The Long Hand of Murray Bail : Travel and Writing
Subjects:
- Longhand : A Writer's Notebook 1989 single work autobiography novel
- Homesickness 1980 single work novel
- Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories 1975 selected work short story
- Ian Fairweather 1981 single work biography
- Indian Notebooks 1969 1982 single work
- Holden's Performance 1987 single work novel
- Eucalyptus : A Novel 1998 single work novel
- The Cosmopolitan Pastoral : The Paddock, the Novel, and the Nation 2001 single work criticism
- Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001 anthology criticism interview essay
- Murray Bail: The Homemade Modernist Finds a Heart 1998 single work criticism
- 'The Great Australian Emptiness' Revisited : Murray Bail's Holden's Performance 1991 single work criticism
- Some Recent Australian Fictions in the Age of Tourism : Murray Bail, Inez Baranay, Gerard Lee 1993 single work criticism
- Across the Sea Wall 1965 single work novel
- A Foot in the Stream 1985 single work prose
- Reflexivity in Fiction : Poetics and Politics 1992 single work criticism
- Australia Takes on the World : Identity and Representation in Murray Bail's "Homesickness" 1991 single work criticism
- Language and Secondarity in Murray Bail's 'Holden's Performance' 1997 single work criticism
- Talking Turtle 1998 single work criticism biography
- Texts and Counter-Texts: The Allegorical Art of Murray Bail 1994 single work criticism
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cAustralia,c
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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cUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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