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1 'A Place of Ideals in Conflict' : Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature Elizabeth Leane , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 261-290) This chapter examines Australian literature (poetry, fiction, and plays) dealing with Antarctica, focussing on each text's engagement with the Antarctic environment and the debates surrounding it. Beginning with two late nineteenth-century Antarctic utopias, the survey moves through the work of well-known writers such as Douglas Stewart and Thomas Keneally in the mid-century to more recent writing by Dorothy Porter, Les Murray, Caroline Caddy, and others. Less familiar material, such as poetry by Antarctic expeditioners themselves, is also discussed. The essay traces a rough progression in Australian representation of the far southern environment, from an initial utopian approach to an emphasis on its stark, 'timeless' icescape as a minimalist backdrop for human dramas to an appreciation of its changeability, complexity and fragility. (from The Littoral Zone)
1 Polar Disciplines Elizabeth Leane , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 105 2006; (p. 10-18) Elizabeth Leane reflects on her Australian Antarctic Division-sponsored journey in 2004. Leane experienced doubts about the validity of her humanities-based research compared with the work being done by the scientific community in the Antarctic. This essay reflects on those misgivings.
1 Polar Newspapers as Colonising Fictions : The Frontier Journalism of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Elizabeth Leane , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , October no. 42 2004; (p. 25-43) Elizabeth Leane argues that polar newspapers function as a colonising device, 'imaginatively transforming the tiny, isolated, and provisional expedition community into an established colony' (27). Leane's analysis focuses on the 'Adelie Blizzard,' the unpublished newspaper of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antartic Expedition of 1911-1914.
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