Ruth Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amanda Lohrey's *Vertigo
This essay is grounded in William Empsonâ s view of the pastoral tradition as deeply concerned with social relations â with how we live in the world and with each other â and in the conviction that the pastoral is again appearing as an enabling mode of expression, especially in the midst of the issues of our time that surround human relationships with the non-human world. Amanda Lohreyâ s Vertigo: A Pastoral is a work of refined artistry shaped b…
Introduction
Why pastoral indeed. Why should what Paul Alpers calls a â notoriously conventionalâ (79) form of imaginative expression be attracting the interest of writers and scholars in recent times? Alpers is gesturing towards Samuel Johnsonâ s itself notorious criticism of Miltonâ s Lycidas, but the statement puts its finger on the peculiar nature of the pastoral tradition, especially as seen from a contemporary perspective. Unlike tragedy or comedy, past…
What we Leave Behind
Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Gardens in the Dunes (1996) is unlike her earlier novels both in its reliance to a considerable degree on straegies of the traditional European realist novel and in its inclusion of a variety of global locations. Once again, it is a deeply political novel concerning abuses of indigenous peoples at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But it is also a novel about gardens and in this essay I approach its issues from …
The Soul of the Desert
REVIEW: The Soul of the Desert. Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D. Hopper. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, 2011. Paper. 184pp. AUD$45 NZD$56.61.ISBN139781921888649. (First hardback edition, 2005.)
Finding Home
Trying to situate Margaret Scott in contemporary Australian poetry, I am struck by the way she stands out, among her contemporaries of British descent, as the poet who speaks with an immigrant voice. While writers of other ethnic backgrounds are voicing this experience in Australian writing, 1 Scott presents, to the best of my knowledge, the most coherent set of reflections on a British/Australian immigrant identity. To read through her poems, st…
Distant Voices, Still Lives’
Discusses Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence with the French translator of Maurice Guest, outlining major points of interest
Far-Fetched Facts
1. The distant past 2. Far-fetched facts 3. Far-fetched facts and fiction 4. The observation of Venus 5. Aotourou and Omai 6. Such a revolution 7. Of the cannibals 8. The palm-tree shall grow Notes Bibliography Index
"In Transit" - Travel Narrative as a Habit of Mind, With Particular Reference to Mardi and Butor's Boomerang
Distant Voices, Still Lives’
Discusses Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence with the French translator of Maurice Guest, outlining major points of interest
"In Transit" - Travel Narrative as a Habit of Mind, With Particular Reference to Mardi and Butor's Boomerang
Far-Fetched Facts
1. The distant past 2. Far-fetched facts 3. Far-fetched facts and fiction 4. The observation of Venus 5. Aotourou and Omai 6. Such a revolution 7. Of the cannibals 8. The palm-tree shall grow Notes Bibliography Index
Distant Voices, Still Lives’
Discusses Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence with the French translator of Maurice Guest, outlining major points of interest
Finding Home
Trying to situate Margaret Scott in contemporary Australian poetry, I am struck by the way she stands out, among her contemporaries of British descent, as the poet who speaks with an immigrant voice. While writers of other ethnic backgrounds are voicing this experience in Australian writing, 1 Scott presents, to the best of my knowledge, the most coherent set of reflections on a British/Australian immigrant identity. To read through her poems, st…
What we Leave Behind
Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Gardens in the Dunes (1996) is unlike her earlier novels both in its reliance to a considerable degree on straegies of the traditional European realist novel and in its inclusion of a variety of global locations. Once again, it is a deeply political novel concerning abuses of indigenous peoples at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But it is also a novel about gardens and in this essay I approach its issues from …
The Soul of the Desert
REVIEW: The Soul of the Desert. Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D. Hopper. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, 2011. Paper. 184pp. AUD$45 NZD$56.61.ISBN139781921888649. (First hardback edition, 2005.)
Amanda Lohrey's *Vertigo
This essay is grounded in William Empsonâ s view of the pastoral tradition as deeply concerned with social relations â with how we live in the world and with each other â and in the conviction that the pastoral is again appearing as an enabling mode of expression, especially in the midst of the issues of our time that surround human relationships with the non-human world. Amanda Lohreyâ s Vertigo: A Pastoral is a work of refined artistry shaped b…
Introduction
Why pastoral indeed. Why should what Paul Alpers calls a â notoriously conventionalâ (79) form of imaginative expression be attracting the interest of writers and scholars in recent times? Alpers is gesturing towards Samuel Johnsonâ s itself notorious criticism of Miltonâ s Lycidas, but the statement puts its finger on the peculiar nature of the pastoral tradition, especially as seen from a contemporary perspective. Unlike tragedy or comedy, past…
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