Shirley Hazzard : new critical essays / edited by Brigitta Olubas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olubas, Brigitta, editor.

Series:

Sydney studies in Australian literature.

Sydney studies in Australian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Hazzard, Shirley.

Electronic books.

Local Subjects:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics. Hazzard's oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard's lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.

Contents:

Intro

Shirley Hazzard

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Between Short Fiction and The Novel

Future Anterior: The Evening of the Holiday

References

"This Intricate Lasting Nature": Passage, Pastoral Elegy and the Pedagogy of Loss in The Evening of the Holiday

Naples and The Bay of Noon

Another Journey to Italy: The Bay of Noon

"No-one Had Thought of Looking Close to Home": Reading the Province in The Bay of Noon

"Naples is a Leap": Time, Space and Consciousness in Shirley Hazzard's Naples

The Transit of Venus

Glasses and Speculations: On Hazzard's Transits

Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things

"Atmosphere and Dusky Shade": Transiting and Italian Weather

Timing the Transit: Analepsis as True Knowledge

Distance, Proximity and the Romance of Images

Glass Houses and Uncrystallised Flesh and Blood

Returning to the Scene of the Crime: On Re-reading The Transit of Venus

Writing at the Mid-Century

The Mid-century Method of The Great Fire

A Belated Reception

"Sunday, Grisaille. Suspension"

Suspension at Mid-century

The "Momentous Scene" at Hiroshima

Does Idealism Preclude Heroism? Shirley Hazzard's United Nations Writings

Biography

The Transit of Shirley Hazzard

Meeting Shirley Hazzard

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781743324776

1743324774

OCLC:

1247678634