Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories - Softcover

Dixon, Robert; Birns, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1920899669 ISBN 13: 9781920899660

Publisher: Sydney University Press, 2010

Synopsis

"Reading Across the Pacific" is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia. In the twenty-first century, both American and Australian literatures are experiencing new challenges to the very different paradigms of literary history and criticism each inherited from the twentieth century. In response to these challenges, scholars of both literatures are seizing the opportunity to reassess and reconfigure the conceptual geography of national literary spaces as they are reformed by vectors that evade or exceed them, including the transnational, the local and the global. The essays in "Reading Across the Pacific" are divided into five sections: National Literatures and Transnationalism, Poetry and Poetics, Literature and Popular Culture, The Cold War, and Publishing History and Transpacific Print Cultures.

About this title

About the Authors

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney. He is a general editor in Sydney University Press' Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.

Nicholas Birns is associate professor at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920899669
• ISBN 13: 9781920899660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Dixon Robert