The Antipodean

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCSC:32106020386550

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The Antipodean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory Hill
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781991001597

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The Antipodean Express by Gregory Hill Pdf

An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean Express takes in 89 days of travel, on 33 trains, through 19 countries. It begins in New Zealand's North Island, weaves past the volcanoes of Java, through East Asia and on into Europe. From hilarious miscommunications in China to cultural immersion at the Bolshoi Ballet, there are stop-offs with half a world’s worth of impressions, people, history, food, music and culture. Hill also describes most of the great trains of the Eurasian hemisphere, from New Zealand’s Northern Explorer to the Eurostar, and everything in between. The culmination is a day spent in the obscure Spanish village of Alaejos, locating the exact antipode of the author’s living room. The perfect end to a vast adventure.

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009186902

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The Antipodean Laboratory by Anna Johnston Pdf

Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Author : Graham Robert Oppy,Graham Oppy,Nick Trakakis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739127339

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The Antipodean Philosopher by Graham Robert Oppy,Graham Oppy,Nick Trakakis Pdf

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading Australasian philosophers was convened at various literary events and festivals across Australia and New Zealand from 2006 to 2009, covering diverse themes ranging from local histories of philosophy (in particular, the fortunes of philosophy in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and New Zealand); to discussions of specific topics (including love, free will, religion, ecology, feminism, and civilisation), especially as these have featured in the Australasian philosophy; and to examinations of the intellectual state of universities in Australasia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521524342

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Imagining the Antipodes by Peter Beilharz Pdf

Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135272180

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The Idea of the Antipodes by Matthew Boyd Goldie Pdf

A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

Author : Kate Fullagar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443838061

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The Atlantic World in the Antipodes by Kate Fullagar Pdf

This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The papers presented in this volume distil some of the key themes to emerge from discussion, each demonstrating the complexity with which discourses and practices operated in the Indo-Pacific oceanic region. Some had unexpected effects, others underwent profound transformation. Always they were changed by the ideas, peoples, and institutions of the Antipodes. Combined, the chapters underscore the ways in which both oceanic worlds were co-produced through a variety of intellectual and practical interactions over the modern period. Essays by leading Pacific scholars such as Margaret Jolly, Anita Herle, and Katerina Teaiwa are joined by essays from key scholars of various regions in the Atlantic World such as Simon Schaffer, Iain McCalman, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Michael McDonnell, as well as interventions by the new transnationalist breed of Australian historians, led by Alison Bashford and Ann Curthoys.

Author : Jane W. Davidson,Michael Halliwell,Stephanie Rocke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000299861

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Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I by Jane W. Davidson,Michael Halliwell,Stephanie Rocke Pdf

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera’s staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in opera. Yet few contemplate the impact that the customary cultural practices of specific times and places have upon opera’s ability to move emotions. Taking Australia as a case study, this two-volume collection of extended essays demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance but are at least partly produced, defined, and regulated by culture. Spanning approximately 170 years of opera production in Australia, the authors show how the emotions associated with the specific cultural context of a nation steeped in egalitarian aspirations and marked by increasing levels of multiculturalism have adjusted to changing cultural and social contexts across time. Volume I adopts an historical, predominantly nineteenth-century perspective, while Volume II applies historical, musicological, and ethnological approaches to discuss subsequent Australian operas and opera productions through to the twenty-first century. With final chapters pulling threads from the two volumes together, Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes establishes a model for constructing emotion history from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Author : David Fausett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484719

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Images of the Antipodes in the Eighteenth Century by David Fausett Pdf

How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.

Author : H. Blythe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137397836

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The Victorian Colonial Romance with the Antipodes by H. Blythe Pdf

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.

Author : John Shaw (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Australasia
ISBN : OXFORD:N10618251

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A Gallop to the Antipodes by John Shaw (M.D.) Pdf

Author : Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Jane Buckingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199093953

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Indians and the Antipodes by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Jane Buckingham Pdf

The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. However, because of their small number—slightly more than half a million— they rarely find mention in the global literature on Indian diaspora. The present volume seeks to remedy this oversight. Charting the chequered 250-year-old history of both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ diaspora in the antipodes, the chapters narrate the stories of labourers who journeyed under the pressure of colonial capital and post-war professional migrants who went in search of better opportunities. In the context of the ‘White Australia’ and ‘White New Zealand’ policies designed to stem the arrival of Asians in the early twentieth century, we read of the complex survival stratagems adopted by migrants to circumvent the stringent insular world view of the existing white settlers in these countries. Together with stories of the collective suffering and struggles of the diaspora, we are presented with stories of individual resilience, enterprise, and social mobility.

Author : John Turnbull Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019657070

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Rambles with a philosopher; or, Views at the Antipodes. By an Otagonian [i.e. John T. Thomson]. by John Turnbull Thomson Pdf

Author : Nicholas Jose,Benjamin Madden
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781925818659

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Antipodean China by Nicholas Jose,Benjamin Madden Pdf

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and the different perspectives contributed to a sense of common understanding, about literature and about the role of the writer in society. In some cases the communication is even more direct, as when the Tibetan author A Lai speaks knowingly about Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria, and the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan and J.M. Coetzee, discuss what the Nobel meant for each of them. The collection also includes writing by some of the best Chinese and Australian writers: novelists Brian Castro, Gail Jones, Julia Leigh, Yu Hua, Sheng Keyi and Liu Zhenyun, poets Kate Fagan, Ouyang Yu, Xi Chuan and Zheng Xiaoqiong, and translators Eric Abrahamsen, Li Yao and John Minford. In the current situation of hostility and suspicion between the two countries, this collection presents what may be seen, in retrospect, as an idyllic moment of communication and trust.

Author : Greg McGee
Publisher : Eye & Lightning Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785630590

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The Antipodeans by Greg McGee Pdf

Three Generations. Two Continents. One Forgotten Secret. 2014Clare and her father travel to Venice from New Zealand. She is fleeing a broken marriage, he is in failing health and wants to return one last time to the place where, as a young man, he spent happy years as a rugby player and coach. While exploring Venice, Clare discovers there is more to her father's motives for returning than she realised and time may be running out for him to put old demons to rest. 1942Joe and Harry, two Kiwi POWs in Italy, manage to escape their captors, largely due to the help of a sympathetic Italian family who shelter them on their farm. Soon they are fighting alongside the partisans in the mountains, but both men have formed a bond with Donatella, the daughter of the family, a bond that will have dramatic repercussions decades later. The Antipodeans is a novel of epic proportions where families from opposite ends of the earth discover a legacy of love and blood and betrayal. 'Like a Venetian Captain Corelli's Mandolin. You won't want to put it down.' – Simon Edge, author of The Hopkins Conundrum 'Hugely evocative' – Sarah Franklin, author of Shelter