The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction
This paper examines the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it has been represented in a series of Australian novels that focus on the period of its construction. Contemporary interest in the Bridge is contrasted with the period of its construction when, despite its very obvious appeal to visual artists, the B...
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| description | This paper examines the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it has been represented in a series of Australian novels that focus on the period of its construction. Contemporary interest in the Bridge is contrasted with the period of its construction when, despite its very obvious appeal to visual artists, the Bridge was all but ignored by writers of fiction. It is argued that these recent novels look back at the construction of the Bridge through a post-modern lens, at a time when the Bridge has transcended its roots in functional interwar-modernity and been reinvented as a centrepiece of Australia’s most visible and theatrical urban space. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-40252017-02-28T01:25:25Z The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction Genoni, Paul Vicki Hastrich Sydney Harbour Bridge Peter Corris Post-modern cities Twentieth Century Australian fiction Alex Miller Ruth Park Ashley Hay This paper examines the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it has been represented in a series of Australian novels that focus on the period of its construction. Contemporary interest in the Bridge is contrasted with the period of its construction when, despite its very obvious appeal to visual artists, the Bridge was all but ignored by writers of fiction. It is argued that these recent novels look back at the construction of the Bridge through a post-modern lens, at a time when the Bridge has transcended its roots in functional interwar-modernity and been reinvented as a centrepiece of Australia’s most visible and theatrical urban space. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4025 http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/viewFile/2196/2907 Association for the Study of Australian Literature fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Vicki Hastrich Sydney Harbour Bridge Peter Corris Post-modern cities Twentieth Century Australian fiction Alex Miller Ruth Park Ashley Hay Genoni, Paul The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title | The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title_full | The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title_fullStr | The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title_short | The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction |
| title_sort | sydney harbour bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in australian fiction |
| topic | Vicki Hastrich Sydney Harbour Bridge Peter Corris Post-modern cities Twentieth Century Australian fiction Alex Miller Ruth Park Ashley Hay |
| url | http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/viewFile/2196/2907 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4025 |