Cyclone Country - The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature (Paperback)

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Chrystopher J. Spicer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-8156-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-4766-8156-2
Barcode:	9781476681566

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