Spicer Chrystopher J. - Cyclone Country The Language Of Place And Disaster In Australian Literature - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Cyclone Country The Language Of Place And Disaster In Australian Literature
Author(s): Spicer Chrystopher J.
Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476681566
Pages: 210 Pages, 10 Photos
Publication Date: 9/29/2020
Category: Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides