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Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

Author : Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003312154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature written by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of 'cosmos' - the order of the world - to foreground ideas of order, reciprocity, and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers 'cosmological readings' of a diverse range of authors-Indigenous and non-Indigenous-as a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline narrative. As a result, it reactivates 'cosmos' as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts have the potential to help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the world, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic, and Pacific area studies"--

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

Author : Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003815952
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature written by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.

Contemporary Australian Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature

Author : Silvia Anastasijevic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350374091
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature written by Silvia Anastasijevic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.

Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

Author : Gabriele Dürbeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432483
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene written by Gabriele Dürbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003136989

The Zen of Ecopoetics

Author : Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003837840
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Zen of Ecopoetics written by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics’ as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry, and religious studies.

Readings in Contemporary Australian Poetry

Author : Igor Maver
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783906757308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Contemporary Australian Poetry written by Igor Maver and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and 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.

Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature

Author : David Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135313814
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature written by David Callahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from a variety of international perspectives.

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

Author : Elizabeth Webby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825992
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature written by Elizabeth Webby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.

Reading Down Under

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : SSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 8190228218
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Reading Down Under written by Amit Sarwal and published by SSS Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Englishness of English literature had been expressed in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, those writers whose works seemed best to embody the spirit of the place or the spirit of its folk. In what writers or works would the Australianness of Australian literature be discovered? (David Carter 1997)--------This first literary Reader on Australian studies from India not only investigates this central question but explores many other facets of Australian literature and especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, this Reader explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography, explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literature, horror, crime fiction, queer writing, and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness." Juxtaposing the varied critical perspectives of nearly 60 critics this Reader hopes to create a constructive dialogue in the fight against the dominance of an Anglo-American academic approach.

Exploring Suburbia

Author : Nathanael O'Reilly
Publisher : Teneo Press
ISBN 13 : 1934844942
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Suburbia written by Nathanael O'Reilly and published by Teneo Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Suburbia is the first book-length study of suburbia in Australian literature; it addresses a long-neglected and underexamined area within Australian literature and analyzes novels by some of Australia's most important writers from a new perspective, in addition to examining novels previously neglected by critics. This book provides new insights and perspectives on fourteen Australian novels, several of which are canonical works that have been analyzed extensively by other scholars. This study will lead to a reassessment of the novels and authors under discussion and prompt further research into suburbia in Australian literature. It demonstrates that that the authors who have explored suburbia since 1961 have already moved Australian literature in a new direction, away from the traditional focus on the bush and the city, demonstrating that the literal and theoretical space between the city and the bush contains the most interesting and important engagements with contemporary Australian culture. Exploring Suburbia is an important addition for collections in literature. It will also be an excellent textbook for professors teaching courses on space and culture in literature. It will also, of course, be an essential read for courses in Australian and international literature.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651448X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

Contemporary Australian Literature

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743324367
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Literature written by Nicholas Birns and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice – one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many. "In this remarkable, bold and fearless book, Nicholas Birns contests how literary cultures are read, how they are constituted and what they stand for … In examining the nature of the barriers between public and private utterance, and looking outside the absurdity of the rules of genre, Birns has produced a redemptive analysis that leaves hope for revivifying a world not yet dead." - John Kinsella

Explorations in Australian Literature

Author : Jaydeep Sarangi
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176257091
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Australian Literature written by Jaydeep Sarangi and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

Author : Peter Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188165X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature written by Peter Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia

Author : Igor Maver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864870312
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia written by Igor Maver and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiques both the view of Europe held by contemporary Australian writers and poets, and the view of Australia held by contemporary writers of Slovenian origin or connection.

Cambria Press Australian Literature Series

Author : Cambria Press
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 9781604979701
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Cambria Press Australian Literature Series written by Cambria Press and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue provides a listing of publications and reviews in the Cambria Australian Literature Series under general editor, Dr. Susan Lever. The Cambria Australian Literature Series publishes critical studies of writing by Australians, with a focus on contemporary Australian fiction. In the past fifty years, the publication of Australian literary fiction has grown immensely with many significant writers emerging to claim attention. The series addresses the need for critical support for this writing in order to explain its complexities and context to a wide readership. While most of the books in the series concentrate on the career of a single writer, others give more attention to significant engagements between literature and Australian culture. Each book seeks to find an appropriate, original and lively approach to the writing in question and places it not only within the context of Australian culture but also in international literary contexts. See www.cambriapress.com for more information.