| Description |
xiv, 305 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
UQP studies in Australian literature |
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Studies in Australian literature (St. Lucia, Qld.)
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| Contents |
Christina Stead and her critics / Margaret Harris -- Christina Stead / M. Barnard Eldershaw -- The achievement of Christina Stead / R.G. Geering -- "Chaos or a dancing star?" Christina Stead's Seven poor men of Sydney / Dorothy Green -- Representing the 1930s : capitalism, phallocracy, and the politics of the popular front in House of all nations / Louise Yelin -- Christina Stead's new realism : The man who loved children and Cotters' England / Terry Sturm -- Language, art and ideas in The man who loved children / Shirley Walker -- Heaven and hell in The man who loved children / Ken Stewart -- Male narcissism, capitalism, and the daughter of The man who loved children / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- How real is Sam Pollit? "Dramatic truth" and "procès-verbal" in The man who loved children / Hazel Rowley -- Christina Stead's For love alone : a female odyssey? / Susan Sheridan -- A little tea, a little chat : decadent pleasures and the pleasure of decadence / Virginia Blain -- The spirit of Cotters' England / Denise Brown -- A "cruel book" : Menippean satire and the female satirist in I'm dying laughing / Fiona Morrison -- Resisting "the tyranny of what is written" : Christina Stead's fiction / Diana Brydon -- Unhappy families / Angela Carter |
| Summary |
"This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published. The essays, representing a range of critical approaches to Stead's fiction, by Australian, North American and English critics, deal with Stead's work from her first published fiction, The Salzburg Tales (1934), to the posthumous I'm Dying Laughing (1986). The selection foregrounds discussion of her masterpiece, The Man Who Loved Children (1940)."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Australian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101694
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| Author |
Harris, Margaret, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2001523738 |
| ISBN |
0702225061 |
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