introduced and edited by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rodopi,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (319 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
SERIES
Series Title
Nature, culture and literature ;
Volume Designation
04
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Setting the scene : littoral and critical contexts / Robert Zeller and CA. Cranston -- A beach somewhere : the Australian littoral imagination at play / Bruce Bennett -- The shadow on the field : literature and ecology in the western Australian wheatbelt / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth -- Literature in the arid zone / Tom Lynch -- The green thumb of appropriation / Mitchell Rolls -- Under the mountains and beside a creek : Robert Gray and the shepherding of antipodean being / Mark Tredinnick -- The poetry of Judith Wright and ways of rejoicing in the world / Veronica Brady -- Ecopoetics of the limestone plains / Kate Rigby -- Hugging the shore : the green mountains of southeast Queensland / Ruth Blair -- Tales of the Austral tropics : north Queensland in Australian literature / Robert Zeller -- Islands / CA. Cranston -- "A place of ideals in conflict" : images of Antarctica in Australian literature / Elizabeth Leane.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment--rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an in.