Reason and lovelessness essays, encounters, reviews 1980-2017
This collection of essays, variously published in Australia, India and London, includes 'satellites' of his major works--such as Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literary biography on Aboriginal and fronti...
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Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Monash University Publishing
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This collection of essays, variously published in Australia, India and London, includes 'satellites' of his major works--such as Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literary biography on Aboriginal and frontier poetics; and Peacemongers (2014), a pilgrimage book about Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi in the years leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other essays are new: 'Brecht's Song', on his working-class mother; 'Dark Star', an expansion of his meeting with Christina Stead on her 80th birthday; 'Loving Roughneck', his critical appreciation of John Berger; and 'On the Edge of the Cliff', on his private meeting with the Dalai Lama in the Blue Mountains. As has been the case with his book-length works, Hill's essays collected here are ground-breaking: freshly, deeply researched, genre-crossing, multi-disciplinary, combining the candidly personal with the philosophical Introduction / Tom Griffiths. Part 1 Close to bones : Dark star -- Letter to my father -- William Buckley, imagination, hope -- The mood we are in: circa Australia Day 2004 -- Shooting season: Robert Manne's new ground -- Rai Gaita's "Mont Blanc": a new poem imagined -- Stepping out with Fay Zwicky -- Brecht's song. Part 2 Inland : Holding landscapes: John Wolseley's mapping into Australia -- THrough Larapinta Land: Baldwin Spencer's glass case -- Notes on Terra Nullius: travelling north -- Welcome dance, entrance of strangers: on reading Strehlow's "Songs of Central Australia" -- Maggots and mysticism: on W.E.H. Stanner -- Crossing cultures -- Greg Dening's cannibalism -- Translating love into landscape. Part 3 Naked art making : Brushes with the body: on Lucian Freud -- Getting to grips with naked -- Rod Moss naked -- Naked flame: being implicated by D.H. Lawrence -- Loving roughneck: John Berger's hopeful body -- Wild pilgrim: meeting Ko Un -- Dogs and grog: new writing in Alice Springs. Part 4 Reason and lovelessness : Hannah Arendt's dire love -- Orwell's fraternal glances -- Ezra Pound: the tragic Orientalist -- Moonlight among stones: Meredith McKinney's "Pillow Book" -- Reason and lovelessness: deep resistance at the Tokyo trial -- The SS and Flaubert -- The uses and abuses of humiliation: Rabindranath Tagore's management of defeat -- Poems that kill -- Human smoke, bared throats -- On the edge of a cliff: meeting the Dalai Lama in the Blue Mountains. Acknowledgements |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 491 pages 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781925377262 978-1-925377-26-2 1925377261 1-925377-26-1 |