Peter Carey [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Woodcock Bruce
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| Titolo: |
Peter Carey [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823 |
| Soggetto topico: | Postcolonialism in literature - Australia |
| Postcolonialism | |
| English | |
| English Literature | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Australia In literature |
| Soggetto non controllato: | American culture |
| American imperialism | |
| Bliss | |
| Illywhacker | |
| Oscar and Lucinda | |
| Peter Carey's fictions | |
| Tax Inspector | |
| Unusual Life of Tristan Smith | |
| capitalism | |
| counter-revolutionary resistance movement | |
| fable-like scenarios | |
| fictional practice | |
| gender | |
| humour | |
| narrative modes | |
| post-colonialism | |
| post-modernism | |
| retro-speculative fiction | |
| twentieth-century Australian history | |
| war crimes | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Peter Carey |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-053-2 |
| 1-84779-430-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996198560303316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Contemporary World Writers