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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. 70-92
Sighted: 28/08/2007
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y
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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- Naked Under Capricorn 1958 single work novel
- No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography
- From That Day to This 1961 single work autobiography
- Icing on the Damper : Life Story of a Family in the Outback 1995 single work autobiography
- Craft for a Dry Lake 2000 single work autobiography
- Lasseter's Last Ride : An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery 1931 single work biography
- Wake in Fright 1961 single work novel
- Tourmaline 1963 single work novel
- An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel
- Oyster 1996 single work novel
- Tracks 1980 single work autobiography
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- A Horse of Air 1970 single work novel
- The Falling Woman 1992 single work novel
- Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 1996 single work biography
- Hiam 1998 single work novel