Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction
This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism,...
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| description | This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country. The exploration imagery proves to be apposite, in that just as the empire's hopes were dashed when exploration of the inland was repelled by the barren heart of the continent, so too has the metaphysical exploration of the same spaces foundered on uncompromising and withholding landscapes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-119972017-01-30T11:28:05Z Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction Genoni, Paul Peter Carey Exploration in literature Thea Astley This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country. The exploration imagery proves to be apposite, in that just as the empire's hopes were dashed when exploration of the inland was repelled by the barren heart of the continent, so too has the metaphysical exploration of the same spaces foundered on uncompromising and withholding landscapes. 2001 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11997 Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Peter Carey Exploration in literature Thea Astley Genoni, Paul Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title | Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title_full | Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title_fullStr | Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title_short | Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction |
| title_sort | subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary australian fiction |
| topic | Peter Carey Exploration in literature Thea Astley |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11997 |