Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One

by Anthony Uhlmann, Gerald Murnane (Other)

Overview

Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of" and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.

Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane's diverse body of work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781743326404
Publisher:	Sydney University Press
Publication date:	03/02/2020
Series:	Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.42(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Gerald Murnane: a chronology

Introduction by Anthony Uhlmann

1. Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s golf club by Tristan Foster

2. To the eye untrained by Luke Carman

3. Truth, fiction and true fiction by Shannon Burns

4. Images and feelings in a sort of eternity: Gerald Murnane’s ideal female reader by Samantha Trayhurn

5. Retrospective intention: the implied author and the coherence of the oeuvre in Border Districts and The Plains by Emmett Stinson

6. Stream system, salient image and feeling: between Barley Patch and Inland by Brigid Rooney

7. Gerald Murnane’s plain style by Mark Byron

8. Landscape within landscape: the intertwining of the visible and the invisible in Gerald Murnane and Henry James by Suzie Gibson

9. Memory, image and reading traces of the infinite: A History of Books by Arka Chattopadhyay

10. Reporting meaning in Border Districts by Anthony Uhlmann

11. What kind of literary history is A History of Books? by Ivor Indyk

12. The still-breathing author by Gerald Murnane

About the contributors

Index