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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)
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'A Place of Ideals in Conflict' : Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature
Subjects:
- Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole 1888 single work novel
- Neuroomia : A New Continent : A Manuscript Delivered by the Deep 1894 single work novel
- The Fire on the Snow 1941 single work radio play
- The Survivor 1969 single work novel
- A Victim of the Aurora 1977 single work novel
- The Ship of Ice 1946 single work drama poetry
- Antarctica 1970 single work poetry
- Auroral Corona with Two Figures 1983 single work poetry
- Antarctica 1992 single work poetry
- Surfing Antarctica : A Novel 1999 single work novel
- Freeze Frame 1992 single work novel
- The White 1999 single work novel
- Glasnost 1996 single work poetry
- Antarctica : Poems 1996 selected work poetry
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