1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002553990403321

Autore

Derman, Cyrus

Titolo

Probability and Statistical Inference for Engineers / Cyrus Derman , Morton Klein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Oxford University Press, 1959

Descrizione fisica

xii, 144 p. ; 20 cm

Disciplina

519

Locazione

MAS

Collocazione

MXXIV-A-35

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996198560303316

Autore

Woodcock Bruce

Titolo

Peter Carey [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1996

ISBN

1-78170-053-2

1-84779-430-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Contemporary World Writers

Disciplina

823

Soggetti

Postcolonialism in literature - Australia

Postcolonialism

English

English Literature

Languages & Literatures

Australia In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 The stories; 3 Bliss (1981); 4 Illywhacker (1985); 5 Oscar and Lucinda (1988); 6 The Tax Inspector (1991); 7 The Unusal Life of Tristan Smith (1994) and The Big Bazoohley (1995); 8 Jack Maggs (1997); 9 True History of the Kelly Gang (2000); 10 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing post-colonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and his influences. Woodcock, using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, sees Carey as a fictional shadow-maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's fiction, and presents him as a hybrid writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imagining and h