Stephen Mansfield

Australian Patriography

How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita's 'Romulus, My Father', Peter Rose's 'Rose Boys' and many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780857283306
• ISBN-10: 0857283308
• Artikelnr.: 37226631

Autorenporträt

Stephen Mansfield is an independent scholar as well as a casual research assistant and tutor in the Department of English at Sydney University, Australia. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction Writing Patrimony:
The Son’s Book of the Father as a Sub-genre; PART I: CHALLENGING AUTHORITY:
Chapter One: ‘The Paradigm Case’: Contesting the Father in Edmund Gosse’s
‘Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments’; Chapter Two: ‘An Indubitable
Australian’: Renouncing the Father in Hal Porter’s ‘The Watcher on the
Cast-Iron Balcony’; PART II: MEMORIALISING SELF-DENIAL: Chapter Three:
‘Words to Keep Fully Amongst Us’: Honouring the Father in Raimond Gaita’s
‘Romulus, My Father’; Chapter Four: ‘I Really Was the Son of Such a Man’:
Replacing the Father in Richard Freadman’s ‘Shadow of Doubt: My Father and
Myself’; PART III: PERFORMING MASCULINITY: Chapter Five: A Speaking
Subject/A Watching Object: Addressing the Father in Peter Rose’s ‘Rose
Boys’; Chapter Six: Choosing Patrimony: Performing for the Father in John
Hughes’s ‘The Idea of Home’; Chapter Seven: ‘Neither to Vindicate nor to
Vilify’: Becoming the Father in Robert Gray’s ‘The Land I Came Through
Last’; Conclusion: The Turn to the Father in Autobiography; Bibliography;
Index