This Country Is My Mind': Les Murray's Poetics of Place

Leer, Martin Hugo

doi:10.20314/als.305a5526af

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This Country Is My Mind': Les Murray's Poetics of Place

ContributorsLeer, Martin Hugo

Published inAustralian literary studies, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 15-42

Publication date2001

Abstract

Examines the "notion of place in Murray's work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a 'centre of the world', and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections" (p.16).

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Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises

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LEER, Martin Hugo. This Country Is My Mind”: Les Murray’s Poetics of Place. In: Australian literary studies, 2001, vol. 20, n° 2, p. 15–42. doi: 10.20314/als.305a5526af

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DOI : 10.20314/als.305a5526af

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This Country Is My Mind': Les Murray's Poetics of Place

Examines the "notion of place in Murray's work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a 'centre of the world', and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections" (p.16).

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