Title Scenes of reading : is Australian literature a world literature? / edited by Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney

Published North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Pub, 2013 North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2013 ©2013

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Description xxxvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Introduction: Australian literature, globalisation and the literary province / Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney -- 1. Recycling the epic : Gilgamesh on three continents / Wai Chee Dimock -- 2. Which world, and why do we worry about it? / Paul Sharrad -- 3. Beyond the nation : Australian literature as world literature / Bill Ashcroft -- 4. Australia's world literature : constructing Australia's global reading relations in the interwar period / Patrick Buckridge & Eleanor Morecroft -- 5. Literary history as a cultural challenge : rewriting local literary histories in the age of globalisation / Svend Erik Larsen -- 6. 'Upon the airy ocean' : Australia, the Russian Pacific, and the transnational imaginary / Nicholas Birns -- 7. Antipodean romance, crime and sensation : Australian popular fiction in British and American markets 1890-1925 / David Carter -- 8. Time's abyss : Australian literary modernism and the scene of ferry wreck -- 9. Worlds without and withn : reading through Patrick White's library in The solid mandala / Bernadette Brennan -- 10. 'The last curve of the globe' : deep time and scenes of reading in Shirley Hazzard's The great fire / Brigitta Olubas -- 11. 'A new continent into literature' : Patrick White's world literature / Georgina Loveridge -- 12. The digital pacific : Jack Spicer, Michael Dransfield and the poetics of addictation / Aaron Nyerges -- 13. Inheriting the world : German exiles, Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and Australia's multicultural national identity -- 14. 'Dostoyevsky understood Newcastle!' : reading John Hughes's citational autobiographies / Stephen Mansfield -- 15. Outside country : indigenous literature in transit / Gillian Whitlock -- 16. Cheeky / Nicholas Jose Analysis Australian Notes "Many of the essays in Scenes of Reading were first presented as papers at the international symposium, 'Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature?', convened by the editors at St Andrew's College at the University of Sydney on 25-26 May 2012."--Page vii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Aboriginal Australians in literature -- Congresses. Aboriginal Australians in literature. Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors. Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- Congresses. Australian literature -- History and criticism. Australian literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses. Australian literature -- 20th century. Australian literature -- 20th century -- Congresses. Australian literature -- 21st century. Australian literature -- 21st century -- Congresses. Authors, Australian. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Authors, Australian -- Congresses. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Congresses. Literature and globalization -- Congresses. Literature and globalization -- Australia. Literature and globalization -- Australia -- Congresses. Literature and globalization. Literature and society -- Australia. Literature and society -- Australia -- Congresses. Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Congresses. Literature, Modern -- History and criticism. National characteristics, Australian, in literature -- Congresses. National characteristics, Australian, in literature. Transnationalism in literature -- Congresses. Transnationalism in literature. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Dixon, Robert, 1954- editor Rooney, Brigid, editor f 2013/11 batc LC no. 2013455482 ISBN 9781925003031

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