Robin Gerster, Peter Pierce

Broschiertes Buch

On the War Path

An Anthology of Australian Military Travel

Beschreibung

Reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. Selecting writings from combatants abroad as well as the reflections of sightseers who travel to foreign battlefields and war sites, this work reveals how the experience of war has both broadened and refined Australian views of the world.

Autor

Robin Gerster is Associate Professor in the School of Literary, Visual & Performance Studies at Monash University. He has published widely in the areas of war and travel literatures, including the award-winning critique Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing (MUP), Hotel Asia: An Anthology of Australian Literary Travelling to 'the East' and his travel book Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (MUP). Peter Pierce is Professor of Australian Literature at James Cook University. He writes frequently for the national press; has co-edited several books including the anthology Clubbing of the Gun-fire: 101 War Poems (MUP) and the critical study Vietnam Days: Australia and the Impact of Vietnam, and is also the author of Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally's Fiction and The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780522850871
• ISBN-10: 0522850871
• Artikelnr.: 22105434