Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clear overview of the novel, focussing on the grandmother's role.
'orchard Thieves' in Jolley's Eden
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clear overview of the novel, focussing on the grandmother's role.
Rewriting God
Author: Elaine LindsayPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender? Rewriting God asks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed. From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point.
Australian Literary Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Meanjin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Australian Book Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
After The Celebration
Author: Ken GelderPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522859218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world. The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Bethlehem Revisited
Author: Floyd I. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The Travelling Entertainer, and Other Stories
Author: Elizabeth JolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Prev. pub in her S̀tories', 21 I/S, 1984 ed., and in T̀he travelling entertainer and other stories', 3 I/S.
Author: