Eccentric visions [[electronic resource] ] : re constructing Australia / / Gaile McGregor

• Autore: McGregor Gaile <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 994.063
• Soggetto topico: Australian literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Civilization 1976-1990; Australia Social conditions 1976-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 IMAGE/SELF-IMAGE; 3 COMING INTO THE COUNTRY; 4 ALTERNATIVE READINGS; 5 AFTER WORDS; APPENDIX A: ""Voice in the Wilderness"": A Note on Grounds and Precedents; APPENDIX B: Notes on Selected Australian Novels; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: What this book represents is, quite literally, a ""slice"" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in its challenge to uniformitarianism, is a test case in ethnographic theory. Using methods ranging from the hermeneutic through the structuralist to the psychoanalytic, McGregor deploys the self-evidence of communal life and language to establish not only that all cultural phenomena are ""patterned,"" but
• Titolo autorizzato: Eccentric visions
• ISBN: 1-282-23291-6; 9786613810656; 0-88920-700-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154759903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II