Re-imagining the Australian farm novel: writing magic realism into the georgic
Smyth, Elizabeth A. (2023) Re-imagining the Australian farm novel: writing magic realism into the georgic. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
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Elizabeth Smyth's research asks how the Australian farm novel can be re-imagined for the 21st century, given the genre has traditionally employed historical settings and the settler-colonial worldview. She wrote a contemporary magical realist novel to explore human relationships with the nonhuman and produced a guide for writers navigating cultural interfaces.
| Item ID: | 81221 |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
| Keywords: | Regionalism, magic realism, farm novel, gothic, creative writing, agency, sugarcane, georgic, pastoral, Australia |
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| Copyright Information: | Copyright © 2023 Elizabeth A. Smyth |
| Additional Information: | This thesis was awarded Cum Laude. Chapters four and six of this thesis are embargoed until 1 January 2026. Two publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are: [Chapter 3] Smyth, Elizabeth (2021) Sugarcane and the Wet Tropics: reading the Georgic mode and region in John Naish's farm novel The Cruel Field (1962). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 21 (2) [Chapter 4] Smyth, Elizabeth A. (2023) The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel. In: Edney, Sue, and Somervell, Tess, (eds.) Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp. 184-198 [Chapter 5] Smyth, Elizabeth A. (2022) Writing an Australian Farm Novel: Connecting Regions via Magic Realism. Text, 26 (2). pp. 1-16 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 00:27 |
| FoR Codes: | 36 CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING > 3602 Creative and professional writing > 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) @ 50% 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4705 Literary studies > 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1302 Communication > 130203 Literature @ 35% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280122 Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies @ 35% 21 INDIGENOUS > 2104 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture > 210499 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture not elsewhere classified @ 30% |
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