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Author Maver, Igor.

Title Readings in contemporary Australian poetry / Igor Maver [editor]
Published Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 1997

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Description xii, 150 pages ; 23 cm
Series German-Australian studies, 1421-7902 ; v. 12
German-Australian studies, 1421-7902 ; vol. 12 = Deutsch-australische studien ; Bd. 12
German-Australian studies ; vol. 12
German-Australian studies. 1421-7902 ; v. 12
Contents European Literary and Cultural Affiliations in Australian Verse by A. D. Hope, James McAuley and Douglas Stewart. An Antipodean Byron? A. D. Hope's Vision of Australia Versus Europe or the Myth of Byronism. A. D. Hope and the Augustan Affiliation: The Discreet Charm of Dunciad Minor. The Baudelairean Decadent Strain in A. D. Hope's Verse. The Mirabell Garden Revisited: James McAuley and Georg Trakl. Douglas Stewart and the Coleridgean Mythopoesis of His 'Voyager' Poems -- The Australian Verse Anthology and a Collection of Poems by John Blight. The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991). John Blight: Selected Poems 1939-1990 (1992) -- Contemporary 'New' Aboriginal Poetry in English: Dilemmas and Perspectives -- The Literary Creativity of Slovene Migrants in Australia. The Mediterranean in Mind: The Poetry of Bert Pribac. Aurora australis by Joze Zohar. Joze Zohar: An Ode to Time Lost -- Individual Authors -- General Criticism
Summary As no literature can claim to be monolithic, the essays collected in this book examine the various ways in which different European literary traditions were mediated and blended through individual Australian poets into Australian literature culture. In part one the focus is thus on the new or hitherto rather neglected European literary and cultural affiliations in verse written by major Australian poets: A.D. Hope, James McAuley and Douglas Stewart. Two recent Australian verse anthologies are also examined and contemporary Aboriginal poetry in English contextualized with regard to its 'hybridization' of orality and literacy. Part two is dedicated to Slovene migrant poetry produced in Australia. It analyzes the work of two major Slovene migrant poets living in Australia, Bert Pribac and Joze Zohar
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [125]-140
Subject Australian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Australia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114303
Author Maver, Igor.
LC no. 97011727
ISBN 0820434019 (alk. paper)
3906757307