Title Locating Australian literary memory / Brigid Magner

Published London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture. Contents <P><span data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">Acknowledgements; Introduction: Remembering Absent Authors; 1. Adam Lindsay Gordon's Grave; 2. Joseph Furphy in the Riverina; 3. Henry Handel Richardson and the Haunting of Lake View; 4. Henry Lawson Country; 5. The Multiple Birthplaces of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson; 6. Nan Chauncy's Sanctuary; 7. Living Memorials: The Houses of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark; 8. Statue: Mania: P. L. Travers and the Appeal of Mary Poppins; 9. Kylie Tennant's Hut; 10. The David Unaipon Monument at Raukkan; Conclusion: Towards an Expanded Repertoire of Literary; Commemorations; Index.</span></p> Summary 'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P.L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon - who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers' houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 12, 2019) Subject Australian literature -- History and criticism Australian literature -- Appreciation Authors, Australian. Literary landmarks. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Australian & Oceanian. Australian literature Australian literature -- Appreciation Authors, Australian Literary landmarks Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781785271083 1785271083 1785271091 9781785271090

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