Cyclone Country: The Language Of Place And Disaster In Australian Literature

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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.
  • | Author: Chrystopher J. Spicer
  • | Publisher: McFarland
  • | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
  • | Number of Pages: 210 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
  • | ISBN-10: 1476681562
  • | ISBN-13: 9781476681566
Author:
Chrystopher J. Spicer
Publisher:
McFarland
Publication Date:
Sep 15, 2020
Number of pages:
210 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Literary Criticism
ISBN-10:
1476681562
ISBN-13:
9781476681566