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'Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.
'Hazzard's oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard's lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.
'Hazzard's work has been duly praised and admired by many including the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as 'the greatest living writer on goodness and love'. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford observed: 'If there has to be one best writer working in English today it's Shirley Hazzard.'
'Shirley Hazzard received the US National Book Award in 2003 for The Great Fire, which also won the William Dean Howells Medal in the US and the Miles Franklin Award in Australia. In 1980 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus, and in 1977 the O. Henry Short Story Award, and she has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize. She is a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the British Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Future Anterior : The Evening of the Holiday, single work criticism (p. 3-12)
- 'This Intricate Lasting Nature' : Passage, Pastoral Elegy and The Pedagogy of Loss in The Evening of the Holiday, single work criticism (p. 13-24)
- Another Journey to Italy : The Bay of Noon, single work criticism (p. 25-40)
- 'No-one Had Thought of Looking Close to Home' : Reading the Province in The Bay of Noon, single work criticism (p. 41-54)
- 'Naples Is a Leap' : Time, Space and Consciousness in Shirley Hazzard’s Naples, single work criticism (p. 55-62)
- Glasses and Speculations : On Hazzard's Transits, single work criticism (p. 65-78)
- Returning to the Scene of the Crime : On Re-reading The Transit of Venus, single work criticism (p. 79-93)
- The Mid-century Method of The Great Fire, single work criticism (p. 97-110)
- Does Idealism Preclude Heroism? Shirley Hazzard’s United Nations Writings, single work criticism (p. 111-120)
- The Transit of Shirley Hazzard, single work biography (p. 123-136)
- Meeting Shirley Hazzard, single work biography (p. 137-146)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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[Review] Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
[Review] Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
Brenda Walker Reviews 'Shirley Hazzard' Edited by Brigitta Olubas
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
Exploits of an Extraordinary Expatriate
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 February 2015; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
Undercover: New Books Celebrate Australian Authors Shirley Hazzard and Alex Miller
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 November 2014; The Age , 8 November 2014; The Canberra Times , 8 November 2014;
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Exploits of an Extraordinary Expatriate
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 February 2015; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
Brenda Walker Reviews 'Shirley Hazzard' Edited by Brigitta Olubas
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
[Review] Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
[Review] Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism -
Undercover: New Books Celebrate Australian Authors Shirley Hazzard and Alex Miller
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 November 2014; The Age , 8 November 2014; The Canberra Times , 8 November 2014;