Scenes of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature?

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Australian Literature, Globalisation and the Literary Province -- Chapter 1: Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents -- Chapter 2: Which World, and Why Do We Worry About It? -- Chapter 3: Beyond the Nation: Australian Literature as World Literature -- Chapter 4: Australia's World Literature: Constructing Australia's Global Reading Relations in the Interwar Period -- Chapter 5: Literary History as a Cultural Challenge: Rewriting Local Literary Histories in the Age of Globalisation -- Chapter 6: 'Upon the Airy Ocean': Australia, the Russian Pacific, and the Transnational Imaginary -- Chapter 7: Antipodean Romance, Crime and Sensation: Australian Popular Fiction in British and American Markets 1890-1925 -- Chapter 8: Time's Abyss: Australian Literary Modernism and the Scene of Ferry Wreck -- Chapter 9: Worlds Without and Within: Reading Through Patrick White's Library in The Solid Mandala -- Chapter 10: 'The Last Curve of the Globe' : Deep Time and Scenes of Reading in Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire -- Chapter 11: 'A New Continent into Literature': Patrick White's World Literature -- Chapter 12: The Digital Pacific: Jack Spicer, Michael Dransfield and the Poetics of Addictation -- Chapter 13: Inheriting the World: German Exiles, Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt, and Australia's Multicultural National Identity -- Chapter 14: 'Dostoyevsky Understood Newcastle!': Reading John Hughes's Citational Autobiographies -- Chapter 15: Outside Country: Indigenous Literaturein Transit -- Chapter 16: 'Cheeky' -- Contributors -- Index.

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