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Thinking the Antipodes : Australian essays / Peter Beilharz.

Thinking the Antipodes : Australian essays / Peter Beilharz.
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Author Beilharz, Peter (author)
Title Thinking the Antipodes : Australian essays / Peter Beilharz.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Clayton, Victoria Monash University Publishing, [2015].
©2015
Description 1 online resource (318 pages)
Note Scheduled to be published November 2014.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conditions of access Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary In 1956, Bernard Smith wrote that the people of Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking, and a significant inspiration for author Peter Beilharz. Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the antipodes made sense less in its geographical form than in its cultural form, viewed as a relation rather than a place. Australians had one foot here and one foot there, whichever 'there' this was. This way of thinking with and after Bernard Smith makes up one current of Beilharz's best Australian essays. Two other streams contribute to this collection of Beilharz's essays. The second recovers and publicizes antipodean intellectuals - from Childe to Evatt to Stretton to Jean Martin - who have often been overshadowed by the reception given to metropolitan celebrity thinkers. This second stream also examines others, like Hughes and Carey, who have been celebrated as writers more than as interpreters of the antipodean condition. The third stream engages with mainstream views of Australian writing, and with the limits of these views. When thinking in terms of cultural traffic, then the stories told about Australia will also be global and regional in a broader sense.
Subjects Australian essays
Culture
Sociology -- Australia
Social sciences -- Philosophy
Australia -- Civilisation -- Philosophy
Australia -- Civilisation
Call number Electronic book - Ebsco
Internet Site Access to full text via EBSCOhost (three users at a time)
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