Australia As The Antipodal Utopia

Author : Daniel Hempel
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785271407
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia as the Antipodal Utopia written by Daniel Hempel and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. Australia as the Antipodal Utopia evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period. It argues that because of its antipodal relationship with Europe, Australia is imagined as a particular form of utopia – but since one person’s utopia is, more often than not, another’s dystopia, Australia’s utopian quality is both complex and highly ambiguous. Drawing on the rich field of utopian studies, Australia as the Antipodal Utopia provides an original and insightful study of Australia’s place in the Western imagination.

Author : Martin Edmond
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775582477
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zone of the Marvellous written by Martin Edmond and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes—namely Australia and New Zealand—from the Western perspective over the course of the past five millennia. Tracing the fiction underlying the fact in the tales of, among others, Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Thomas More, this remarkable compilation explores the imagination of travelers, writers, map-makers, charlatans, and rogues who dreamed of other worlds. Delving into the Australian character and the New Zealand psyche, this account also conveys an insightful glimpse into Western history.

Author : Gillian Dooley
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 174305615X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Wave written by Gillian Dooley and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.

Author : A. J. Carruthers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399526847
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes written by A. J. Carruthers and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avant-garde poetry in the Antipodes causes all sorts of trouble for literary history. It is an avant-garde that seems to arrive too late and yet right on time. In 1897, Christopher Brennan made his own version of Un Coup de Des, the same year Mallarme published it in Cosmopolis. In the 1940s, the same period avant-gardism was declared dead or fatally injured due to the Ern Malley affair, Harry Hooton began writing a significant body of experimental poetry. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Australian Dada emerged 'belatedly' through figures like Jas H. Duke (Tristan Tzara had previously sung Aboriginal songs at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916). First Nations and Migrant poets then began reinventing avant-garde poetry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book maintains that such a confounding literary history poses a distinct challenge to the theories of the avant-gardes we have become accustomed to and changes our perspective of avant-garde time.

Author : Gavin Souter
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Gavin Souter and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1991 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third edition of a narrative history which, when first published in 1968, won the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award. Its author, an acclaimed historian, gives an account of the two utopian colonies established in South America late last century by several hundred Australians, under the leadership of William Lane. Includes illustrations and index, and a new preface by the author.

Author : E. Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visit to the Antipodes written by E. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pref signed: E L On spine: a visit to the Antipodes.

Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583558
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Antipodes written by Peter Beilharz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Smith is widely recognized as one of Australia's leading intellectuals in the fields of anthropology and art history. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity. Smith enables Australians to think about matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. This is the first book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

Author : David Kemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780522873481
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Free Country written by David Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells how Australians, inspired by their new democracy, attempted to use their freedom to build a society without social and economic conflict. As the second book in a landmark five volume Australian Liberalism series, A Free Country shows the successes and missteps in the attempt to establish the legal and moral foundations for a liberal society in Australia, examing the ideological battles of the period."--

Author : Tamara S Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317408
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand written by Tamara S Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.

Author : Phrae Chittiphalangsri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000896781
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos written by Phrae Chittiphalangsri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues. The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of mainland peninsulas and maritime archipelagos in Southeast Asia, which, whilst remaining a largely minor area in Asian studies, harbors a wealth of textual heritage that opens to inquiries and new readings. From the post-Angkor Cambodia, the post-colonial Viantiane, to the ultra-modern Singapore metropolis, translation figures problematically in the modernization of indigenous literatures, criss-crossing chronologically and spatially through different literary landscapes. The peninsular geo-body gives rise to the politics of singularity as seen in the case of the predominant monolingual culture in Thailand, whereas the archipelagic geography such as the thousand islands of Indonesia allows for peculiar types of communication. Translation can also be metaphorized poetically to configure the transference in different scenarios such as the cases of self-translation in Philippine protest poetry and untranslatability in Vietnamese diasporic writings. The collection also includes intra-regional comparative views on historical and religious terms. This book will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of translation studies, sociolinguistics, and Southeast Asian studies.