Although best known for "The Thorn Birds," her blockbuster
family saga set in her native Australia, Colleen McCullough is a
versatile novelist who has written in a variety of genres. This is
the first full-length examination of her work. It highlights her
versatility and her refusal to be confined to any one genre or type
of writing, even though that refusal has lost her part of the wide
readership she gained with DEGREESIThe Thorn Birds DEGREESR. DeMarr
discusses, analyzes, and evaluates each of McCullough's eight
novels in turn, relates it to the genre to which it belongs, and
compares it to her other work. This study also features a
biographical chapter and a chapter which discusses the variety of
genres in which McCullough has written.
DeMarr shows how McCullough's romances ("Tim" and "The Ladies of
Missalonghi") and her other novels which make heavy use of romance
elements ("The Thorn Birds" and "An Indecent Obession") differ
dramatically from each other. She also compares McCullough's novels
of ideas ("A Creed for the Third Millennium DEGREES" and the three
recent historical novels set in ancient Rome, The Masters of Rome
series). Each novel or series is discussed in a separate chapter,
which contains sections on plot development and structure,
character development, setting, style, and themes. Each novel is
also examined from an alternate critical approach, such as
feminist, allegorical, anti-generic, and deconstructionist
criticism, to widen the reader's perspective. A complete
bibliography of McCullough's work, general criticism, and listings
of reviews of each novel complete the work. This work will be of
particular interest to public and school libraries.
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