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Elizabeth Harrower : critical essays / edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas.

Contributor(s): Series: Sydney studies in Australian literaturePublisher: The University Of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: vii, 151 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781743325599
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 824.914 23
Contents:
Rediscovering again: reading Elizabeth Harrower across time -- 1. Harrower's things: objects in the Watch Tower / Michelle de Kretser -- 2. Elizabeth Harrower in Sydney / Fiona McFarlane -- 3. a really long prospect: Elizabeth Harrower's fallen world / Ivor Indyk -- 4. Sydney in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower / Elizabeth Webby -- 5. a wrong way of being right: the the tormented force of the Harrower men / Nicholas Birns -- 6. the wind from Siberia: metageography and ironic nationality in the novels of Elizabeth Harrower / Robert Dixon -- 7. weather and temperature, the will to power, and the female subject in Harrower's fiction / Kate Livett --
8. white, fierce, shocked, tearless: the watch tower and the electric interior / Brigid Rooney -- 9. addiction, fire and the face in the catherine wheel / Brigitta Olubas -- 10. projecting the sixties: mediation and characterology in the catherine wheel / Julian Murphet -- 11. traversing the same extreme country in the watch tower and daniel deronda / Megan Nash -- 12. moments of being in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower / Elizabeth McMahon.
Summary: Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure. The essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide a wide-ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with twentieth-century history and post-war society, with modernism and modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points including the harbourside mansions and commerical centres of post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle, and the bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s. Together they offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage with Harrower's work in a new light.--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 824.914 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67908

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rediscovering again: reading Elizabeth Harrower across time -- 1. Harrower's things: objects in the Watch Tower / Michelle de Kretser -- 2. Elizabeth Harrower in Sydney / Fiona McFarlane -- 3. a really long prospect: Elizabeth Harrower's fallen world / Ivor Indyk -- 4. Sydney in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower / Elizabeth Webby -- 5. a wrong way of being right: the the tormented force of the Harrower men / Nicholas Birns -- 6. the wind from Siberia: metageography and ironic nationality in the novels of Elizabeth Harrower / Robert Dixon -- 7. weather and temperature, the will to power, and the female subject in Harrower's fiction / Kate Livett --

8. white, fierce, shocked, tearless: the watch tower and the electric interior / Brigid Rooney -- 9. addiction, fire and the face in the catherine wheel / Brigitta Olubas -- 10. projecting the sixties: mediation and characterology in the catherine wheel / Julian Murphet -- 11. traversing the same extreme country in the watch tower and daniel deronda / Megan Nash -- 12. moments of being in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower / Elizabeth McMahon.

Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure. The essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide a wide-ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with twentieth-century history and post-war society, with modernism and modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points including the harbourside mansions and commerical centres of post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle, and the bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s. Together they offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage with Harrower's work in a new light.--Back cover.

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