Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey / / edited by Andreas Gaile |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (475 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Cross/Cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Australian literature - History and criticism
Australian literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0274-5
1-4237-8900-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Paul KANE: Preface: Framing Peter Carey -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Writer and his Work -- Andreas GAILE: The "contrarian streak": An Interview with Peter Carey -- Karen LAMB: Bringing Australia Home: Peter Carey, the Booker, and the Repatriation of Australian Culture -- Part II: Aspects and Overviews -- Andreas GAILE: Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey's Mythistorical Novels -- Christer LARSSON: Cross References: Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey's Fictions -- Peter PIERCE: Kinds of Captivity in Peter Carey's Fiction -- Theodore F. SHECKELS: The Difficulties of Translating Peter Carey's -- Postmodern Fiction into Popular Film -- Nicholas BIRNS: "A Dazzled Eye": "Kristu-Du" and the Architecture of Tyranny -- Part III: Perspectives on Individual Fictions -- Cornelia SCHULZE: Peter Carey's Short Stories: Trapped in a Narrative Labyrinth -- Nicholas JOSE: Bliss and Damnation: Peter Carey in Australia -- Brian EDWARDS: Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker -- Lyn MCCREDDEN: Sacred Exchange: Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Ansgar NÜNNING: "The Empire had not been built by choirboys": The Revisionist Representation of Australian Colonial History in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Bill ASHCROFT: Simulation, Resistance and Transformation: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith -- Pam MACINTYRE: Regarding The Big Bazoohley -- Annegret MAACK: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs : An Aussie Story? -- Barbara SCHMIDT-HABERKAMP: The Writing-Back Paradigm Revisited: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs , and Charles Dickens, Great Expectations -- Bruce WOODCOCK: Unsettling Illusions: Carey and Capital in Jack Maggs -- Carolyn BLISS: "Lies and Silences": Cultural Masterplots and Existential Authenticity in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang -- Susan K. MARTIN: Dead White Male Heroes: True History of the Kelly Gang , and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions -- Anthony J. HASSALL: A Wildly Distorted Account? Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney -- Robert MACFARLANE: Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777651503321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
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Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey / / edited by Andreas Gaile |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (475 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Cross/Cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Australian literature - History and criticism
Australian literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0274-5
1-4237-8900-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Paul KANE: Preface: Framing Peter Carey -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Writer and his Work -- Andreas GAILE: The "contrarian streak": An Interview with Peter Carey -- Karen LAMB: Bringing Australia Home: Peter Carey, the Booker, and the Repatriation of Australian Culture -- Part II: Aspects and Overviews -- Andreas GAILE: Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey's Mythistorical Novels -- Christer LARSSON: Cross References: Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey's Fictions -- Peter PIERCE: Kinds of Captivity in Peter Carey's Fiction -- Theodore F. SHECKELS: The Difficulties of Translating Peter Carey's -- Postmodern Fiction into Popular Film -- Nicholas BIRNS: "A Dazzled Eye": "Kristu-Du" and the Architecture of Tyranny -- Part III: Perspectives on Individual Fictions -- Cornelia SCHULZE: Peter Carey's Short Stories: Trapped in a Narrative Labyrinth -- Nicholas JOSE: Bliss and Damnation: Peter Carey in Australia -- Brian EDWARDS: Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker -- Lyn MCCREDDEN: Sacred Exchange: Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Ansgar NÜNNING: "The Empire had not been built by choirboys": The Revisionist Representation of Australian Colonial History in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Bill ASHCROFT: Simulation, Resistance and Transformation: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith -- Pam MACINTYRE: Regarding The Big Bazoohley -- Annegret MAACK: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs : An Aussie Story? -- Barbara SCHMIDT-HABERKAMP: The Writing-Back Paradigm Revisited: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs , and Charles Dickens, Great Expectations -- Bruce WOODCOCK: Unsettling Illusions: Carey and Capital in Jack Maggs -- Carolyn BLISS: "Lies and Silences": Cultural Masterplots and Existential Authenticity in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang -- Susan K. MARTIN: Dead White Male Heroes: True History of the Kelly Gang , and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions -- Anthony J. HASSALL: A Wildly Distorted Account? Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney -- Robert MACFARLANE: Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829037903321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
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Far Side of the World |
Autore | O'Brian Patrick <1914-2000> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-721728-5 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Far Side of the World, The |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148887403321 |
O'Brian Patrick <1914-2000>
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A Few of the Girls : Stories |
Autore | Binchy Maeve |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 1-101-94742-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Gordon Snell -- Friends and Enemies -- Falling Apart -- Picnic at St. Paul's -- Someone's Got to Tell Her -- The Foul-Weather Friend -- Giving Up Men -- Living Well -- Chalk and Cheese -- A Few of the Girls -- Love and Marriage -- The Bargain -- The Afternoon Phone-In -- Audrey -- Kiss Me, Kate -- Forgiving -- New Year's Eve and the Garden -- The Sensible Celebration -- The Mirror -- Mr. Mangan -- A Tactful Conversation -- Your Cheating Heart -- The Afterthought -- Bella and the Marriage Guidance Counselor -- Premonitions -- Big Decisions in Brussels -- The Custardy Case -- Relatives and Other Strangers -- Be Prepared -- A Result -- Broken China -- No Tears in the Tivoli -- The Consultant Aunt -- Work and No Play -- Getting Grace to Be Reasonable -- Decision Making at Christmas -- Catering for Love -- A Winter's Tale -- Holidays -- The Dream Holiday -- Sandra's Suitcase -- The Canary Valentine -- Half of Ninety -- A Note About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162698103321 |
Binchy Maeve
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Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016 | ||
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Field of Blood |
Autore | Seymour Gerald <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-745136-9 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Field of Blood |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148885703321 |
Seymour Gerald <1941->
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Firewall |
Autore | McNab Andy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-724314-6 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Firewall |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148890203321 |
McNab Andy
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HarperCollins UK | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Flame Bearer |
Autore | Cornwell Bernard <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Soggetto non controllato |
Great Britain
Fiction Literature And Fiction |
ISBN | 0-06-257152-4 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150510303321 |
Cornwell Bernard <1944->
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HarperCollins | ||
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Fortune of War |
Autore | O'Brian Patrick <1914-2000> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-721737-4 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Fortune of War, The |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148889203321 |
O'Brian Patrick <1914-2000>
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HarperCollins UK | ||
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Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / / William Stephenson |
Autore | Stephenson William <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Continuum reader's guides |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4411-1038-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Abbreviations of Works Cited; 1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading the Novel; 4. Critical Reception; 5. The Novel on Film; 6. Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155210303321 |
Stephenson William <1965->
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Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / / William Stephenson |
Autore | Stephenson William <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Continuum reader's guides |
ISBN | 1-4411-1038-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Abbreviations of Works Cited; 1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading the Novel; 4. Critical Reception; 5. The Novel on Film; 6. Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786908103321 |
Stephenson William <1965->
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London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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