The Routledge companion to Australian literature / edited by Jessica Gildersleeve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gildersleeve, Jessica, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series.

Routledge companions to literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian literature--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature's responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility

Section A: Literature in the Colony

1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing, and Reading in the 1890s

2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

3 The Metropolis or the Bush?

4 The Weeping Kangaroo

Section B: Early Twentieth-Century Australia

5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia

6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines

7 'Caterpillars of the Commonwealth': Dangerous Books in Australia

8 'Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels': Modern Theatre and Patrick White's Sensuous Dramaturgy

Section C: Contemporary Australia

9 'Are You With Me?' Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s

10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History, and the Bicentenary

11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction

12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary Studies

Section D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere

13 Literary Criticism in Australia

14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia

15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere

16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere

17 Australian Literature in the University

18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?

Section E: Australian Literature and the World

19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism

20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies

21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India

22 Facing East: Asia in Australian Literature.

Section F: Key Themes in Australian Writing

23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction

24 Gendering Australian Literature

25 'Silence Is My Habitat': Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness

26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature

27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative

28 'Something New at Hand': Australian Literature and the Sacred

29 Animal Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian Fiction

30 Landscape (After Mabo)

31 'The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary': A Brief History of Australian Suburban Literature

32 Australian Literature and Everyday Life

33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the Region

Section G: Genre in Australian Literary Studies

34 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry

35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love Wins

36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing

37 Australia's Long Relationship with Romance

38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices

39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian Gothic

40 Australian Television and Literary Criticism

41 Screen Adaptation and Australian Literature

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-312416-X

1-003-12416-X

1-000-28158-2

9781003124160