The global reception of post-national literary fiction: the case of Gerald Murnane [Paper in special conference issue: Australian Literature in a Global World. Ommundsen, Wenche and Simoes da Silva. Tony (eds).]

According to Davis: . . . the literary paradigm can be understood as a particular postwar formation in part driven by the cohort of students that passed through university arts faculties between the 1950s and the 1980s who, armed with Leavisite educations and steeped in the struggles of the post-195...

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Published in:Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL 2009-01 (Special issue), p.1
Main Author: Genoni, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
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Australian fiction
Australian literature
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Fiction
Literary studies
Murnane, Gerald
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Summary:According to Davis: . . . the literary paradigm can be understood as a particular postwar formation in part driven by the cohort of students that passed through university arts faculties between the 1950s and the 1980s who, armed with Leavisite educations and steeped in the struggles of the post-1950s cultural nationalist moment, became its core audience. [...]in the course of 2006 it was reported that he was somewhere in the running for a Nobel Prize and being quoted by international gaming house Ladbrokes at odds of 33/1 (Steger). Murnane is renowned for his near pathological distaste for travel, and indeed has only infrequently ventured outside of his native Victoria. [...]unlike those authors who have expatriated or travelled in order to gain personal exposure to international agents, publishers, critics and readers, Murnane has never been in such an advantageous position. [...]one can look to the publishing history of Murnane's seven works of fiction.
ISSN:1447-8986