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Locating Australian Literary Memory

Brigid Magner

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Description:'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores sites which are explicitly connected with Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as writers' houses, graves, statues and trails. The focus is on a selected group of notable 'heritage' authors who have been celebrated through tangible memorials including Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Pritchard, Eleanor Dark and P. L Travers. Although inherited traditions have shaped local forms of literary memorialisation, some colourful, idiosyncratic rituals have evolved in the Australian context.Through the interweaving of Brigid Magner's impressions of specific sites with biographical, literary and scholarly material, this book speculates on the intensities and attractions that underpin the preservation of literary places and the practices enacted within them. Key themes such as haunting, pilgrimage and nostalgia are drawn out from her discussion of these places in order to understand the fascination with literary places and the tensions and ambiguities associated with their perpetuation.Compared with attractions in Europe and the United States, Australian literary commemorations are relatively modest, with very few 'grand' houses, reflecting the impoverishment of local authors as well as a tendency to celebrate their humble origins, a literary paradigm which has been described as the 'success of failure'. The book argues that literary places - and the artefacts residing in them - often tell us more about the memorialisers, and their rituals, than the authors themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Locating Australian Literary Memory. To get started finding Locating Australian Literary Memory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2020

ISBN: 1785271075

Description: 'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores sites which are explicitly connected with Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as writers' houses, graves, statues and trails. The focus is on a selected group of notable 'heritage' authors who have been celebrated through tangible memorials including Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Pritchard, Eleanor Dark and P. L Travers. Although inherited traditions have shaped local forms of literary memorialisation, some colourful, idiosyncratic rituals have evolved in the Australian context.Through the interweaving of Brigid Magner's impressions of specific sites with biographical, literary and scholarly material, this book speculates on the intensities and attractions that underpin the preservation of literary places and the practices enacted within them. Key themes such as haunting, pilgrimage and nostalgia are drawn out from her discussion of these places in order to understand the fascination with literary places and the tensions and ambiguities associated with their perpetuation.Compared with attractions in Europe and the United States, Australian literary commemorations are relatively modest, with very few 'grand' houses, reflecting the impoverishment of local authors as well as a tendency to celebrate their humble origins, a literary paradigm which has been described as the 'success of failure'. The book argues that literary places - and the artefacts residing in them - often tell us more about the memorialisers, and their rituals, than the authors themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Locating Australian Literary Memory. To get started finding Locating Australian Literary Memory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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