UID:
almafu_9960117448802883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78308-405-7
Series Statement:
Anthem Australian humanities research series
Content:
Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These terms 'recognition, commercial success, political engagement' suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas's fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. 'Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique' traces these contradictions against Tsiolkas's acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).
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Cover; Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction. Pasolini's Ashes; 1. The Down-Curve of Capital: Loaded; 2. Inside the Machine: From Loaded to The Jesus Man; 3. The Pornographic Logic of Global Capitalism: Dead Europe; 4. In the Suburbs of World Literature: From Dead Europe to The Slap; 5. The Politics of the Bestseller: The Slap and Barracuda; Conclusion. Aesthetic Autonomy and the Politics of Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78308-403-0
Language:
English
