Gambling on Reality
A Reading of Peter Carey’s *Oscar and Lucinda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8891428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Holst Petersen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.1b589cab4b |
| OpenAlex | W2502050232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Discusses Oscar and Lucinda as a post-modern historical novel. 'Inhabiting the genre it wants to deconstruct, i.e. the nineteenth-century historical novel, it undermines its basic assumptions from within. History is viewed, not as a fixed and given series of events and motives, but as a text itself, which is as subject to the whims and needs of historians as the literary text is to those of the writers. Consequently, the past is an ideological construct, and as such it is also unstable and liable to change in accordance with the needs of the time
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |