The Burning Library

Our Great Novelists Lost and Found

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Australian & Oceanian
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Author: Geordie Williamson ISBN: 9781921961236
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Publication: October 24, 2012
Imprint: Text Publishing Language: English
Author: Geordie Williamson
ISBN: 9781921961236
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publication: October 24, 2012
Imprint: Text Publishing
Language: English

A perfect introduction to Australian literature, The Burning Library explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.

Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.

The Burning Library is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.

Writers discussed in this collection:
M. Barnard Eldershaw
Xavier Herbert
Christina Stead
Dal Stivens
Patrick White
Jessica Anderson
Sumner Locke Elliott
Amy Witting
Olga Masters
David Ireland
Elizabeth Harrower
Thomas Keneally
Randolph Stow
Gerald Murnane

Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia's only major national prize awarded for critical writing.

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A perfect introduction to Australian literature, The Burning Library explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.

Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.

The Burning Library is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.

Writers discussed in this collection:
M. Barnard Eldershaw
Xavier Herbert
Christina Stead
Dal Stivens
Patrick White
Jessica Anderson
Sumner Locke Elliott
Amy Witting
Olga Masters
David Ireland
Elizabeth Harrower
Thomas Keneally
Randolph Stow
Gerald Murnane

Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia's only major national prize awarded for critical writing.

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