Description
(Text)
Australia is a land of migration. Its literature is hardly more than a hundred years old. In seeking for suggestive literary models and inspiration, Australian writers have inevitably gone beyond their own shores and language. The literature and culture of the German-speaking world has strongly attracted a number of major Australian writers. This book presents a variety of studies in cross-cultural relations. It examines the lives and works of Australian poets and novelists, ranging from Christopher Brennam (1870-1932), the poet whose early sojourn in Berlin was decisive for his poetic and scholarly career, to James MacAuley (1917-1976), admirer of Eichendorff and Trakl, to Patrick White (1912-1990), the Nobel-prize winning author of Voss .
(Review)
"Macainsh's is an extraordinarily rich book, compact, closely argued, covering more than twenty years' work." (Vivian Smith, Australian Literary Studies)
(Author portrait)
The Author: Noel Macainsh, b. 1926, Horsham, Victoria. After war service and a number of years as a professional engineer, graduated M.A., Ph.D., in Germanic Studies, University of Melbourne. Until 1989 Reader-in-English, James Cook University of North Queensland. He now lives permanently in Northern Italy. He has written extensively on Australian Literature, as well as contributing poetry and translations to a wide range of anthologies, newspapers and journals both in Australia and overseas.
