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'This chapter explores some of the many illuminating literary as well as film intertexts of Xavier Herbert's "vast" 1938 novel Capricornia, looking backwards and forwards in time. It considers both "vertical and "horizontal" types of intertextuality. Thus, some relationships begin with reference to another literary text ("horizontal"), while others work across modes, from novel to film or vice versa ("vertical"). Locating the novel in terms of a global system of intertexts, the chapter offers a balance to readings that attempt to objectify and limit the novel's "reality," especially by narrowly nation-focused explanations. The effect is expansive, moving between conventional literary codes of meaning and into mythic, cartographic and astrological realms of apprehension. What emerges is a text just as impure as the novel's own social idealism - a creole text to embody the Creole Nation. (62)
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Intertexts of Capricornia
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- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
- Native Capacity/Blocked Psyche : Carnival and Capricornia 1989 single work criticism
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture 1992 single work criticism
- Looter of the Dreamings: Xavier Herbert and the Taking of Kaijek's Newsong Story 2006 single work criticism
- Capricornia : Recovering the Imaginative Vision of a Polemical Novel 1981 single work criticism
- Australian Highway 1919-1969 periodical (25 issues)
- The Ape-Men of Mobongu 2002 single work children's fiction
- South of Capricornia : Short Stories 1925-1934 1990 selected work short story
- The Territory 1951 single work prose
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