The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination
By (Author) Richard Nile
University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
1st August 2002
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
A820.3
Short-listed for Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Non-fiction 2003
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 26mm
435g
Description
In this controversial and engrossing study, Richard Nile debunks some of the powerful myths of cultural nationalism and observes its passing in favour of the celebrity author. He explores the power of nationalism as a governing force in the creation and ultimate demise of Australian literature, In a clear and accessible way, Nile invokes the stylistic possibilities of narrative history and creative non-fiction, playfully blurring the lines between them. The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination moves from literary London to the delights of Australian bookshops, gets inside Angus and Robertson and interrogates the politics of reputation. It investigates censorship and patronage, paperback heroes and the able-bodied writer, and explores cinema and literature in the century that quite clearly belonged to the novelist.
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