Contents: The Australian configuration - What is Australian literature? - Phases of a dialogue - Images of Britain and the British - Richardson, Boyd, Stead, White - Images of Continental Europe: Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Byzantium.
The Author: Rudolf Bader was born in Zuerich in 1948 and graduated from the University of Berne in 1976, Dr. phil. in 1980. He worked at the Universities of Queensland (Australia), Guelph (Canada), Berne (Switzerland) and Wuppertal (Germany). He published widely in the field of international English literature. In 1991 he obtained his Habilitation and became a Privatdozent at the University of Wuppertal.
Bader's study is massively learned and meticulously researched, covering a broad spectrum of Australian cultural history and literary production which ranges from Clarke's antiimperial polemics to the metaphysical and spiritual dimensions of White's fiction and taking in a mass of minor novels alongside the famous ones. (Derek Wright, The International Fiction Review) His oBader's! study encourages the reader to think further in the topic. As a result, 'The Visitable Past' will deserve its place as the standard work on its topic in Australian literary studies. (Michael Wilding, Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Bader's book will be especially welcomed by Australian academics and scholars for its European perspective on an important phase of modern Australian writing and culture. (Vivian Smith, Australian Literary Studies)
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