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The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers
C. A. Cranston
(editor),
Robert Zeller
(editor),
Amsterdam
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Rodopi
,
2007
Z1422293
2007
anthology
criticism
'In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where "the mountains meet the sea"; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its 'timeless' icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of 'Australia'.'
Source: Rodopi website, http://www.rodopi.nl
Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2007 pg. 31-44
Sighted: 28/08/2007
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The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers
C. A. Cranston
(editor),
Robert Zeller
(editor),
Amsterdam
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Rodopi
,
2007
Z1422293
2007
anthology
criticism
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- The Bodysurfers 1983 selected work short story
- The Shark Net : Memories and Murder 2000 single work autobiography
- The Drowner 1996 single work novel
- Kullark 1979 single work drama
- The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965 single work novel
- Dirt Music 2001 single work novel
- Requiem 1944 single work short story
- Song of the Seals 1983 single work drama
- The Toucher 1993 single work novel
- An Open Swimmer 1982 single work novel
- The Turning 2004 selected work short story