Reason and lovelessness : essays, encounters, reviews 1980-2017 / Barry Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Australian essays.

Australia--Literary collections.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 491 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

His major works include Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literarybiographyand essay in Aboriginal and frontier poetics; and Peacemongers.

Contents:

Front Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Imprint and Copyright Information

Also by Barry Hill

Dedication

Contents

Introduction. By Tom Griffiths

Part 1. Close to Bones

Dark Star

Letter to My Father

William Buckley, Imagination, Hope

The Mood We Are In: circa Australia Day 2004

Shooting Season: Robert Manne's New Ground

Rai Gaita's Mont Blanc: A New Poem Imagined

Stepping Out with Fay Zwicky

Brecht's Song

Part 2. Inland

Holding Landscapes: John Wolseley's Mapping into Australia

Through Larapinta Land: Baldwin Spencer's Glass Case

Notes on Terra Nullius: Travelling North

Welcome Dance, Entrance of Strangers: On Reading Strehlow's Songs of Central Australia

Maggots and Mysticism: On W.E.H. Stanner

Crossing Cultures

Greg Dening's Cannibalism

Translating Love into Landscape

Part 3. Naked Art Making

Brushes with the Body: On Lucian Freud

Getting to Grips with Naked

Rod Moss Naked

Naked Flame: Being Implicated by D.H. Lawrence

Loving Roughneck: John Berger's Hopeful Body

Wild Pilgrim: Meeting Ko Un

Dogs and Grog: New Writing in Alice Springs

Part 4. Reason and Lovelessness

Hannah Arendt's Dire Love

Orwell's Fraternal Glances

Ezra Pound: The Tragic Orientalist

Moonlight Among Stones: Meredith McKinney's Pillow Book

Reason and Lovelessness: Deep Resistance at the Tokyo Trial

The SS and Flaubert

The Uses and Abuses of Humiliation: Rabindranath Tagore's Management of Defeat

Poems that Kill

Human Smoke, Bared Throats

On the Edge of a Cliff: Meeting the Dalai Lama in the Blue Mountains

Acknowledgements

About the Author. About this Book

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781925377279

192537727X

OCLC:

1443085162