Inner and Outer Worlds

Anthony Uhlmann is director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.

• Introduction by Anthony Uhlmann1. Constellations of Light and Image | Contemplations on Deep Space: Apparent Magnitude and Scale by Lou Jillett2. Bioluminescence: Materiality, Metaphor and Trace in Sixty Lights by Elizabeth McMahon3. Gail Jones' Novel Modernism: Sixty Lights and Literary Tradition by James Gourlay4. Sleep’s Sweet Relief by Tanya Dalziell5. Resisting Fixation in Gail Jones’ Sorry and Five Bells by Anthony Uhlmann6. "Moving on Metaphorical Silk Roads of Intellectual Trade": Chinese Aesthetics in Five Bells by Valérie-Anne Belleflamme7. Utopia and Hysteria in A Guide to Berlin by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth8. Silent Propinquities: Literary Selfhood and Modernity in A Guide to Berlin by Brigid Rooney9. Figure in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Robert Dixon10. Blueless and Light in the Art of Gail Jones by Meg SamuelsonContributorsIndex

“The end result is a profound sense of Gail Jones’s work as a body of fiction that proliferates ideas in all directions, leading us, as Uhlmann notes, into multiple and ‘resonant spaces of knowledge’.”– Dr Julieanne Lamond, Australian Book Review, August 2022, no. 445