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Author Capone, Giovanna.

Title European perspectives : contemporary essays on Australian literature / general editor Giovanna Capone
Published St. Lucia, Qld. : Australian Literary Studies : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the U.S.A. by International Specialized Book Services, 1991

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Description xvi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Series Australian literary studies, 0004-9697 ; no. 2, v. 15
Australian literary studies ; v. 15, no. 2
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- Imagined Counterpart: Outlining a Conceptual Literary Geography of Australia (starting p. 1) / Martin Leer -- The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality? (starting p. 14) / Horst Priessnitz -- Fringe Finds Focus: Developments and Strategies in Aboriginal Writing in English (starting p. 32) / Eva Rask Knudsen -- 'Home Ground, Foreign Territory': Living in Australia (starting p. 45) / Peter Quartermaine -- Topographies of the Self: Coming to Terms with the Australian Landscape in Contemporary Australian Poetry (starting p. 55) / Gerhard Stilz -- 'Savage Paradise': History, Violence and the Family in Recent Australian Fiction by Hall, Keneally and Malouf (starting p. 72) / Xavier Pons -- Australian Poems on European Paintings (starting p. 83) / Werner Senn -- Searchlights and the Search for History in Christina Stead's Seven Poor Men of Sydney (starting p. 95) / Maria Teresa Bindella -- Gambling on Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (starting p. 107) / Kirsten Holst Petersen -- The Novel as 'Work in Progress': Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus (starting p. 117) / Anna Grazia Mattei -- Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding's 'Knock, Knock' (starting p. 128) / Simone Vauthier -- A Gendered Bush: Mansfield and Australian Drovers' Wives (starting p. 140) / Isabel Carrera-Suarez -- Is Phallocentricity a Sin? or a Peccadillo? Comedy and Gender in Ethel Anderson's At Parramatta and Patrick White's Voss (starting p. 149) / Angela Smith -- Hal Porter, The Tower and the Quintessence of Porterism (starting p. 162) / Giovanna Capone -- Last Flight to Byzantium: Patrick White's Memoirs of Many in One (starting p. 173) / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms? (starting p. 184) / Dieter Riemenschneider -- Notes on Contributors (starting p. 202)
Analysis Australian History and criticism
Notes "A special issue of Australian literary studies, volume 15, no. 2."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
In Australian literary studies no:15.2
Subject Australian literature -- History and criticism.
Criticism -- Europe.
Author Capone, Giovanna.
LC no. 92121043
ISBN 0702224235 (paperback)
Other Titles Australian literary studies
Australian literary studies