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'This essay argues that Roger McDonald's debut novel 1915 represents a form of literary modernism which rejects the easy aesthetic comforts of 'late colonial transcendentalism' (17). McDonald presents an intricate -- we might even say ritualised -- pattern of subversive counterpoint to 'reveal and dramatise the failure of the subject to escape its own limits, and hence its own history' (McCann 155). The result is a highly self-conscious literary novel that seeks to reconcile the art of high modernism with a postcolonial practice interested in the consequences of public memory.' (Author's abstract)
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‘Shapely Experience’ and the Limits of ‘Late Colonial Transcendentalism’ : The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915
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Subjects:
- 1915 : A Novel 1979 single work novel
- The Empire Strikes Back: 1915 and the Australian Sense of the Past 1983 single work criticism
- The Horizonal Sublime 2005 single work criticism
- Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009 multi chapter work criticism
- War is Hell - Especially for a Novelist 1979 single work review
- Patrick White 1996 single work criticism
- Minding Everybody's Business : The Languages of Recent Australian Fiction 1979 single work review
- The Obstinacy of the Sacred 2005 single work criticism
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- Patrick White : Selected Writings 1994 selected work short story drama poetry prose correspondence extract autobiography
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