Cyclone Country: The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature - Tapa blanda

Spicer, Chrystopher J.

 
9781476681566: Cyclone Country: The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature
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ISBN 10: 1476681562 ISBN 13: 9781476681566
Editorial: McFarland, 2020

Sinopsis

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality.

This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer’s Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.

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Acerca del autor

Chrystopher J. Spicer has written extensively about Australian and American film and history. He teaches writing and communication at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.

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Editorial
McFarland
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1476681562
ISBN 13 
9781476681566
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
212
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