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Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry

Toby Davidson
Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Book PDF

Author : Toby Davidson
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967941

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Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidson Pdf

Australian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and ‘Banjo’ Paterson, consolidated into a land-based ‘vigour’ in publications such as the Bulletin. Yet this popular conception relies on not actually consulting the poetry itself, which for well over one hundred and fifty years has been cerebral, introspective, feminine and highly — even experimentally — religious. This book casts Australian poetry in a new light by showing how Australian Christian mystical poetics can be found in every era of Australian letters, how literary hostilities towards women poets, eroticism and contemplation served to stifle a critical appreciation of mystical poetics until recent decades, and how in the twentieth century one Australian Christian mystical poet began to influence another and share their appreciations of Dante, Donne, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Brontë, Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot and Lowell.

For Lovers of God Everywhere

Roger Housden
For Lovers of God Everywhere Book PDF

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781458753083

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For Lovers of God Everywhere by Roger Housden Pdf

Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christian mystics has yet to be discovered by a general audience. For Lovers of God Everywhere, a collection of nearly 100 poems from both historic and contemporary writers, heralds the reemergence of the great spiritual voices of the Christian tradition - a tradition with its own love songs to God, cries of longing, and bliss of union. In this collection, Roger introduces us to some of the foremost poets of both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. He takes us from the wisdom of the Desert Fathers to the passion of St. Augustine, through the medieval ecstasies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, to the subtleties of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila; and on to contemporary voices such as Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Mary Oliver. Roger's insightful commentary on each poem inspires us to take its words more deeply into our souls and shows how the mystical tradition transcends sectarian divides and speaks to the heart of humanity.

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

Ann Vickery
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry Book PDF

Author : Ann Vickery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009470216

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The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry by Ann Vickery Pdf

An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationally renowned poets such as Lionel Fogarty, Gwen Harwood, John Kinsella, Les Murray, and Judith Wright. The Companion considers Australian leadership in the diversification of poetry in terms of performance, the verse novel, and digital poetries. It also considers Antipodean engagements with Romanticism and Modernism.

The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry

John Kinsella,Tracy Ryan
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry Book PDF

Author : John Kinsella,Tracy Ryan
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781925164732

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The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry by John Kinsella,Tracy Ryan Pdf

The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and defined the ways that Western Australians see themselves.

Australian Poetry

Paul Kane
Australian Poetry Book PDF

Author : Paul Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521438241

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Australian Poetry by Paul Kane Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.

Veronica Brady

Kieran Dolin,Tony Hughes-d'Aeth,Doiminic Hyde
Veronica Brady Book PDF

Author : Kieran Dolin,Tony Hughes-d'Aeth,Doiminic Hyde
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925643787

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Veronica Brady by Kieran Dolin,Tony Hughes-d'Aeth,Doiminic Hyde Pdf

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, firmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping the thin veneer of our dominant materialistic culture to forge a greater understanding of our place in a more just world. One-time member of the ABC Board, Brady was a wine-loving, bike-riding, diminutive figure with a fierce reputation for plain speaking. An expert on Australian literature, and living life as a "communist" in a community of Loreto nuns, teaching, she cut a non-conformist figure in an age when the humanist values she upheld seemed increasingly under threat. She strove to defend them with a sharp mind, a contemporary Christian theology, and a willingness to put her boots on the ground in street protests. The essays gathered here by colleagues, students, friends and family bring her compassion, interests and concerns to life with an immediacy, fondness and respect. She inspired others, through her writings, actions and teaching, and the essays reveal her larger-than-life character, her passion for teaching, her concerns for justice for Indigenous Australians, and the intellectual and spiritual legacy she bequeathed to us all.

Good for the Soul

Toby Davidson
Good for the Soul Book PDF

Author : Toby Davidson
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781760802011

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Good for the Soul by Toby Davidson Pdf

In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed poetry so much that he held to a Sunday night poetry ritual. Curtin was Australia's third wartime Prime Minister, Labor's eighth Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a Western Australian electorate. 'Toby Davidson reveals a new perspective on John Curtin: the poetry of his times, and the poems he himself read. As Davidson shows, Curtin's poetry reading and his reflections upon it influenced his thoughts and language from his socialist youth to the last days of his leadership of a nation transformed by global peril. Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry is a unique, patiently researched and fascinating re-evaluation of Australia's revered wartime Prime Minister.' – John Edwards, author of John Curtin's War Volume I & II 'A stunningly comprehensive account which shows a side of John Curtin we have only glimpsed before. Davidson skilfully traces how poetry was Curtin's companion and ally from his humble beginnings in rural Victoria to his death in office in 1945, two months before the end of World War II.' – Professor David Black, editor of In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings and Friendship is a Sheltering Tree: John Curtin's Letters 1907 to 1945.

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Jessica Gildersleeve
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature Book PDF

Author : Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000281705

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The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature by Jessica Gildersleeve Pdf

In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.

Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories

Guri Barstad,Karen P. Knutsen,Elin Nesje Vestli
Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories Book PDF

Author : Guri Barstad,Karen P. Knutsen,Elin Nesje Vestli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527536807

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Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories by Guri Barstad,Karen P. Knutsen,Elin Nesje Vestli Pdf

Today, globalization, migration and political polarization complicate the individual’s search for a cohesive identity, making identity formation and transformation key issues in everyday life. This collection of essays highlights a number of the dimensions of identity, including cultural hybridity, religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, sexuality, and childhood, and explores how they are thematized in different narratives. The stories discussed are set in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haiti, India, Israel, Japan, Polynesia, Norway, Romania, Spain and South Africa, emphasizing today’s international focus on identity. The majority of the contributions here focus on literary texts, while others investigate identity formations in interviews, language corpora, student reading logs, film, theatre and pathographies.

The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse

Kevin Hart
The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse Book PDF

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religious poetry, Australian
ISBN : 0195539567

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The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse by Kevin Hart Pdf

Paperback issue of an anthology first published in 1994. Australian poets' reflections on spirituality, life and death, from a wide range of religious orientations, including Christian, Aboriginal, Asian, atheist and Jewish. Poems are listed in alphabetical order of authors. Contains an introduction and index of themes.

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music

Joseph Cummins
The Imagined Sound of Australian Literature and Music Book PDF

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785270925

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The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music by Joseph Cummins Pdf

‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

Randolph Stow: Critical Essays

Kate Leah Rendell
Randolph Stow Critical Essays Book PDF

Author : Kate Leah Rendell
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781760801991

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Randolph Stow: Critical Essays by Kate Leah Rendell Pdf

Randolph Stow (1935–2010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children's novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an accomplished and impressive literary legacy. The collection republishes a number of significant essays but also presents new readings acknowledging the remarkable skill as well as the limitations of Stow's literary imagining. All are a testimony to the resonance of Stow's writing while acknowledging the critical complexities of his work. 'Commencing this project with the simple ambition to present a critical collection responding to the full breadth of Randolph Stow's work, I extended an invitation to literary scholars and critics whose work I knew addressed his writing. The responses were encouraging and generous, confirming the wide reach of interest in Stow's life and literature. It reminded me that while not as comprehensively studied as some of his contemporaries, Stow continues to enjoy the support of broad public and academic readership.' — Kate Rendell

Poetry and Revelation

Kevin Hart
Poetry and Revelation Book PDF

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472598325

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Poetry and Revelation by Kevin Hart Pdf

Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience" are given to us by phenomenology. Poetry and Revelation is the first study of religious poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of “religious poems”, some medieval, some modern; some written in English, others written in European languages; some from America, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of revelation itself.

David Campbell

Jonathan Persse
David Campbell Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Persse
Publisher : Arden
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925984028

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David Campbell by Jonathan Persse Pdf

David Campbell (1915-79) was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. Born into a landed family, he was a grazier for most of his life in the Canberra and Bungendore district of the Monaro. He fought with the RAAF in the Second World War, rising to the rank of wing commander, and he was twice awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Life on the land, writing, and wide friendships, followed.Campbell published eleven books of poems and two of short stories. He was a regular contributor to The Bulletin, when under Douglas Stewart's literary editorship (1939-61) it promoted Australian writing. In those years, he had 135 poems included in The Bulletin, and seven short stories. He also occasionally had poems published in The Listener in England.His poetry, much of it, was inspired by his love of the land, in all its forms, and by his belief in the unity of all things in nature. Though not conventionally religious, he was a true pantheist. He had friends in many fields and his influence on fellow writers was considerable, especially on the young poets in Canberra in the 1970s; they remember him still with gratitude and affection. He was a man of strong and highly individual personality and character, and wide achievement.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2004

Europa Publications
International Who s Who in Poetry 2004 Book PDF

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431782

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International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.