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Christer Larsson Christer Larsson i(A6009 works by)
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1 Cross References : Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey's Fiction Christer Larsson , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 53-70) As allusions to Christian tradition are a recurrent and prominent feature in Carey's work, the author of this article discusses them with regard to their function as thematic feature and as narrational devices or formal feature. Larsson's careful reading shows that several of Carey's novels are 'more firmly rooted in the Christian tradition than the author's self-conception as "an atheist" and the postcolonial condemnation of totalizing, essentialist narratives would lead one to believe' (Introduction to Fabulating Beauty xxx).
1 y separately published work icon "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey's Novels Christer Larsson , Uppsala : Department of English, Uppsala University , 2001 Z925643 2001 single work criticism This study aims to "demonstrate that recurrent formal and thematic patterns in Carey's novels suggest an interrelation between the works, and that an analysis of that interrelation can extract an argument concerning the ethics of storytelling from the texts. The issue of the status of fictional discourse receives prominent and complex consideration in Carey's novels and this study argues that Carey presents storytelling as an intentional mode of social interaction, defined and governed by extra-linguistic conventions. For the discourse to be meaningfully described as fictional, storytellers have to observe the rules that appky to their activity. (Author's abstract)
1 'Years Later' : Temporality and Closure in Peter Carey's Novels Christer Larsson , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 19 no. 2 1999; (p. 176-185)
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