The drover's wife
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, ha...
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North Sydney, N.S.W
Knopf
2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O'Neill's graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives' Part 1. Lawson and the evolution of 'The drover's wife' -- Part 2. Enter Drysdale -- Part 3. 'Drover's wife' commentaries (including Franco Casamaggiore) -- Part 4. Miscellany Part 1. Lawson and the evolution of ‘The drover’s wife’: The drover’s wife / Henry Lawson -- ‘The drover’s wife’: a great reading adventure / Frank Moorhouse -- ‘A mixed -- up affair all round’: girl/woman/wife/mother/man/Black man and into the landscape / Frank Moorhouse -- Sexual tensions in ‘The drover’s wife’: what was it like when the drover was home? / Frank Moorhouse -- Mateship love: how did Lawson experience mateship? / Frank Moorhouse -- The younger Lawson v the older Lawson: the sourcing of ‘The drover’s wife’ / Frank Moorhouse -- Extracts from Snake / Kate Jennings -- The Australian bush -- woman / Louisa Lawson -- The drover’s de facto / Anne Gambling -- The drover’s wife’s dog / Damien Broderick -- The drover’s wife / Craig Cormick -- The drover’s wife club / James Roberts -- Afraid of waking it / Madeleine Watts -- Part 2. Enter Drysdale: The drover’s wife / Murray Bail -- The Drysdale/Lawson mysteries and the question of the Big Women / Frank Moorhouse -- Big Edna / Mark O’Flynn -- The lie of the land / Hamish Clayton -- The drover’s wife / Barbara Jefferis -- The drover’s wife / Mandy Sayer -- The drover’s wife / David Ireland -- Part 3. ‘Drover’s wife’ commentaries (including Franco Casamaggiore): The drover’s wife / Frank Moorhouse -- Responses to Franco Casamaggiore -- The originality of Henry Lawson / Ryan O’Neill -- Henry Lawson, ‘The drover’s wife’ and the critics / Kay Schaffer -- Origins of The drover’s wife / Anne Gray -- Writer and director notes: The drover’s wife / Leah Purcell and Leticia Cáceres -- In the footsteps of Henry Lawson; if you know Bourke you know Australia; congratulations, Emily King / Frank Moorhouse -- Part 4. Miscellany: A parliamentary question -- A university course outline -- List of other drover’s wife artworks -- Henry Lawson: a narrative timeline -- Lawson sites of significance -- A joke -- Acknowledgements |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780143784821 978-0-14-378482-1 014378482X 0-14-378482-X |