Les Murray's Talking Mosaics.
Ken Gelder's notion of a 'proximate reading' provides a conceptual methodology for a side-by-side, transnational reading of James McAuley and Harold Stewart's Ern Malley poetry collection The Darkening Ecliptic (1944) and Max Aub's apocryphal biography Jusep Torres Campalans (1958). While often seen...
| Publicado en: | Australian Literary Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 1 - 16 |
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