Peter Carey:
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1. Verfasser: Woodcock, Bruce (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary world writers
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Beschreibung:Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 The stories; 3 Bliss (1981); 4 Illywhacker (1985); 5 Oscar and Lucinda (1988); 6 The Tax Inspector (1991); 7 The Unusal Life of Tristan Smith (1994) and The Big Bazoohley (1995); 8 Jack Maggs (1997); 9 True History of the Kelly Gang (2000); 10 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing post-colonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and his influences. Woodcock, using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, sees Carey as a fictional shadow-maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's fiction, and presents him as a hybrid writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imagining and h
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
ISBN:1847794300
9781847794307

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