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Seeking the Centre The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film

Haynes Roslynn D.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780521571111
Publisert
1999-01-04
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
975 gr
Høyde
258 mm
Bredde
183 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
364

Forfatter
Haynes Roslynn D.

Seeking the Centre The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film

Haynes Roslynn D.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk
Haynes Roslynn D.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk
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'This is a book that will be around, and widely quoted, for a very long time. It deserves to be.' Serendipity

'This exciting book, highly illustrated in full colour, reveals the singular impact that the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, has had on Australian culture.' The Australian Financial Review

'Seeking the Centre should be read by anyone wishing to understand more about Australia. It is, among other things, an excellent compendium.' The Times Literary Supplement

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'Seeking the Centre should be read by anyone wishing to understand more about Australia.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This book is enormously pleasurable … a pertinent and intelligent overview of the long history of non-Aboriginal representation and colonisation of desert spaces.' Catriona Elder, University of Wollongong

The desert has a hypnotic presence in Australian culture, simultaneously alluring and repellent. The 'Centre' is distant and unknown to most Australians, yet has become a symbol of the country. This exciting book reveals the singular impact that the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, has had on Australian culture. At the heart of this highly illustrated full colour book is the profound relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the desert, and the complex ways in which they have been seen by white people in this context. The various attempts to conquer and colonise the 'hideous blank' by nineteenth-century explorers is covered in illuminating ways. In the twentieth century the desert was rediscovered by travellers, artists, novelists, poets and film makers. More recently the desert has been promoted as a site for eco-tourism, new age enlightenment and environmental renewal.
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Reveals the impact of the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, on Australian culture. At the heart of the book is the profound relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the desert.
1. The land is a map: the Aboriginal relationship to the desert; 2. Forms, images, imaginings: European myths of the desert; 3. The 'hideous blank': imperatives for discovery; 4. Geography is never innocent: or, what the explorers thought they saw; 5. Perspectives on the desert: the art of exploration; 6. 'On the tracts of thirst and furnace': dead explorers and national identity; 7. Ripping yarns at the outpost of empire: the desert as adventure; 8. From 'dead heart' to 'red centre': travellers' tales and the lure of gold; 9. Seeing red: twentieth-century art of the desert; 10. A gothic desert: psychodrama in fiction and film; 11. Revisioning the explorers in twentieth-century art; 12. Transforming myths: the explorers in twentieth-century literature; 13. Seeing through biology: contemporary artists examine the desert; 14. The desert in the Age of Aquarius: environmentalism and renewal; 15. The art of reconciliation.
Les mer
This exciting, highly illustrated book reveals the impact of the desert on Australian culture.

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'This is a book that will be around, and widely quoted, for a very long time. It deserves to be.' Serendipity

'This exciting book, highly illustrated in full colour, reveals the singular impact that the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, has had on Australian culture.' The Australian Financial Review

'Seeking the Centre should be read by anyone wishing to understand more about Australia. It is, among other things, an excellent compendium.' The Times Literary Supplement

Se alle

'Seeking the Centre should be read by anyone wishing to understand more about Australia.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This book is enormously pleasurable … a pertinent and intelligent overview of the long history of non-Aboriginal representation and colonisation of desert spaces.' Catriona Elder, University of Wollongong

The desert has a hypnotic presence in Australian culture, simultaneously alluring and repellent. The 'Centre' is distant and unknown to most Australians, yet has become a symbol of the country. This exciting book reveals the singular impact that the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, has had on Australian culture. At the heart of this highly illustrated full colour book is the profound relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the desert, and the complex ways in which they have been seen by white people in this context. The various attempts to conquer and colonise the 'hideous blank' by nineteenth-century explorers is covered in illuminating ways. In the twentieth century the desert was rediscovered by travellers, artists, novelists, poets and film makers. More recently the desert has been promoted as a site for eco-tourism, new age enlightenment and environmental renewal.
Les mer
Reveals the impact of the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, on Australian culture. At the heart of the book is the profound relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the desert.
1. The land is a map: the Aboriginal relationship to the desert; 2. Forms, images, imaginings: European myths of the desert; 3. The 'hideous blank': imperatives for discovery; 4. Geography is never innocent: or, what the explorers thought they saw; 5. Perspectives on the desert: the art of exploration; 6. 'On the tracts of thirst and furnace': dead explorers and national identity; 7. Ripping yarns at the outpost of empire: the desert as adventure; 8. From 'dead heart' to 'red centre': travellers' tales and the lure of gold; 9. Seeing red: twentieth-century art of the desert; 10. A gothic desert: psychodrama in fiction and film; 11. Revisioning the explorers in twentieth-century art; 12. Transforming myths: the explorers in twentieth-century literature; 13. Seeing through biology: contemporary artists examine the desert; 14. The desert in the Age of Aquarius: environmentalism and renewal; 15. The art of reconciliation.
Les mer
This exciting, highly illustrated book reveals the impact of the desert on Australian culture.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521571111
Publisert
1999-01-04
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
975 gr
Høyde
258 mm
Bredde
183 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
364

Forfatter
Haynes Roslynn D.

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