Del i serien Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

3 359 kr

Kommande

Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers.Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative philosophy—from Vico's poetic wisdom and Graves's mythic thinking to Joycean experiment and Latin American fabulism. It demonstrates how Hall uses labyrinths, masks, myth, and imagination to challenge modern habits of rationality and to confront the unresolved legacies of colonisation, captivity, and national storytelling. Drawing on archival materials, forgotten early works, and new biographical insights, the study restores Hall's vital role in Australian literary history while situating his achievement within global debates on postcolonialism, philosophy, and aesthetics.Accessible and wide-ranging, this book is attuned to readers both inside and outside the academy. It reveals Hall as a writer whose work compels us to rethink how stories are made, how history is remembered, and how the imagination shapes the world—offering fresh perspectives on creativity, memory, and the power of narrative to transform our understanding of culture and identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Antal sidor240
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041347910

Tillhör följande kategorier

Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

1. Into the Labyrinth; 2. The Postcolonial Lens; 3. The Lesson of Gummbula; 4. Manifold, Graves, Vico; 5. Against Cartesian Reason; 6. Words and Cages; 7. The World's First Luxury Slave-Cruise; 8. Self-Captivity and Its Discontents; 9. Magical Realism, or Reality in Fancy-dress; 10. The Created World; 11. Causality and Contingency; 12. Subjective Fragmentation; 13. The Spiral Logic of Re-experience; 14. Saying No; 15. Strange in Its Departures; 16. Revolutionary Moments; 17. The Owner of My Face; 18. The Conceit of Identity; 19. The Poetic Muse; 20. My Polyphonic Hall of Mirrors; 21. Flutes and the Goddess; 22. The Refrain; 23. Nobody is Singing; 24. Inhuman Time; Appendix: Works by Rodney Hall; Bibliography; Index

“One of Australia’s most acclaimed and challenging novelists, Rodney Hall started out as a poet. Peter D. Mathews reveals Hall’s poetic wisdom, both in poetry itself and in a fiction-writing career that has intrigued many decades of readers. Tracking intellectual influences as varied as Giambattista Vico and John Manifold, Mathews brilliantly delineates how Hall’s critique of Australian society and his commitment to literary innovation go hand-in-hand. He positions the contemporary novel as ranging across philosophy, psychology, even historiography all the while remaining in the distinctly imaginative vein that Hall has explored so successfully.” – Nicholas Birns, New York University“Readers need a guide to the large, thrilling and labyrinthine world of Rodney Hall’s poetry and fiction extending over more than sixty years and focusing on issues central to Australia’s past and its current concerns. Peter D. Mathews provides this in a strikingly lucid way, taking us through the complexities as a sane and eloquent companion. This is a book which opens up important areas of debate.” – Martin Duwell, Australian Poetry Review