Mccooey david (18 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 112 pages. 5.83x0.27x8.27 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 248 pages. Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radica lly revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challe nge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of au tobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discuss es the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, t he discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, fina lly, the importance of place in the Australian imagination.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp. 140.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With poems ranging from the confessional to the mock-autobiographical, from imagism to a strange storytelling, from the comic and satirical to the plangent and disturbing, Star Struck startles us with the many faces of lyric poetry. This book of poems by the award-winning poet David McCooey is made up of four sections. The first documents an alienating encounter with a life-threatening illness. The second plays out an unforgettable obsession with darkness and light. The third brings together popular music and the ancient literary mode of the pastoral. In this highly original sequence we find, among other things, Bob Dylan singing Virgil, Joni Mitchell reflecting on life in Laurel Canyon, a lab monkey pondering the sound of music, and a bitter, surreal rewriting of 'Down Under' for our times. In the final section, narrative poetry is cast in an intensely new and uncanny light.…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 365. . 2009. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 140 pages. 9.69x6.85x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challenge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of autobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discusses the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, the discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, finally, the importance of place in the Australian imagination.…

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Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.