Gerald Murnane's plain style
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Byron, MarkAbstract
The role of grasslands in Gerald Murnane’s fiction is as sustained and pronounced as his self-stated aversion to the coast and the ocean,2 and his uneasy forbearance of mountain ranges. Murnane’s narrative devotion to steppe-like ecologies provokes the question of style and how his narrative strategies might operate dialectically with his chosen geography.The role of grasslands in Gerald Murnane’s fiction is as sustained and pronounced as his self-stated aversion to the coast and the ocean,2 and his uneasy forbearance of mountain ranges. Murnane’s narrative devotion to steppe-like ecologies provokes the question of style and how his narrative strategies might operate dialectically with his chosen geography.
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Date
2020-01-01Source title
Gerald Murnane: Another World in this OnePublisher
Sydney University PressLicence
Copyright All Rights ReservedFaculty/School
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Literature, Art and MediaDepartment, Discipline or Centre
Department of EnglishShare