LEADER 04524nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910809920903321 005 20230721031910.0 010 $a1-282-26532-6 010 $a9786612265327 010 $a94-012-0451-9 010 $a1-4356-1232-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204514 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480506 035 $a(EBL)556737 035 $a(OCoLC)666982827 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193330 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12020538 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193330 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226121 035 $a(PQKB)10136983 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556737 035 $a(OCoLC)666982827$z(OCoLC)182827297$z(OCoLC)712988589$z(OCoLC)764536097$z(OCoLC)963353604$z(OCoLC)966254163 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204514 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556737 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380294 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480506 100 $a20070803d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe littoral zone$b[electronic resource] $eAustralian contexts and their writers /$fintroduced and edited by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller 210 $aAmsterdam [Netherlands] ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aNature, culture and literature ;$v04 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2218-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tSetting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts /$rRobert Zeller and CA. Cranston -- $tA Beach Somewhere: The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play /$rBruce Bennett -- $tThe Shadow on the Field: Literature and Ecology in the Western Australian Wheatbelt /$rTony Hughes-d?Aeth -- $tLiterature in the Arid Zone /$rTom Lynch -- $tThe Green Thumb of Appropriation /$rMitchell Rolls -- $tUnder the Mountains and Beside a Creek: Robert Gray and the Shepherding of Antipodean Being /$rMark Tredinnick -- $tThe Poetry of Judith Wright and Ways of Rejoicing in the World /$rVeronica Brady -- $tEcopoetics of the Limestone Plains /$rKate Rigby -- $tHugging the Shore: The Green Mountains of South-East Queensland /$rRuth Blair -- $tTales of the Austral Tropics: North Queensland in Australian Literature /$rRobert Zeller -- $tIslands /$rCA. Cranston -- $t?A Place of Ideals in Conflict?: Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature /$rElizabeth Leane -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tIndex. 330 $aIn this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment?rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There?s the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that ?appropriates? Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can ?persuade us to rejoice? in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where ?the mountains meet the sea?; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its ?timeless? icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of ?Australia?. 410 0$aNature, culture and literature ;$v4. 606 $aAustralian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 615 0$aAustralian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a820.994 701 $aCranston$b CA$01649256 701 $aZeller$b Robert$01649257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809920903321 996 $aThe littoral zone$93997898 997 $aUNINA