The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction
This paper examines the frequent use of tropes derived from photography in recent Australian fiction. It suggests that the importance of photography to contemporary novelists is it's capacity to render a moment in time immutable, and it argues that photography is replacing mapping as the key st...
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| author | Genoni, Paul |
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| description | This paper examines the frequent use of tropes derived from photography in recent Australian fiction. It suggests that the importance of photography to contemporary novelists is it's capacity to render a moment in time immutable, and it argues that photography is replacing mapping as the key strategy for representing postcolonial space. The paper concludes by providing brief readings of the nexus between time and photography in three novels; Gerald Murnane's The Plains, Liam Davison's Soundings, and Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-325162017-01-30T13:31:19Z The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction Genoni, Paul Australian fiction This paper examines the frequent use of tropes derived from photography in recent Australian fiction. It suggests that the importance of photography to contemporary novelists is it's capacity to render a moment in time immutable, and it argues that photography is replacing mapping as the key strategy for representing postcolonial space. The paper concludes by providing brief readings of the nexus between time and photography in three novels; Gerald Murnane's The Plains, Liam Davison's Soundings, and Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River. 2002 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32516 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Australian fiction Genoni, Paul The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title | The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title_full | The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title_fullStr | The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title_short | The photographic eye: the camera in recent Australian fiction |
| title_sort | photographic eye: the camera in recent australian fiction |
| topic | Australian fiction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32516 |