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Author Gaile, Andreas.

Title Rewriting history : Peter Carey's fictional biography of Australia / Andreas Gaile.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Costerus, 0165-9618 ; 184
Costerus ; 184.
Thesis doctoral Universität, Mainz 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299}-340) and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One -- Theoretical Premises; Chapter One Rewriting History: Theoretical Premises; Part Two -- Theorizing Carey's Fictional Biography; Chapter Two After the Grand Narratives: From History to Mythistory; Chapter Three Strategies of an Illywhacker (I): Replacing the Truth-Paradigm with a "Weaseling Kind of 'Truth'"; Chapter Four Strategies of an Illywhacker (II): Transcending Historical Reality; Chapter Five Strategies of an Illywhacker (III): Telling History as Story.
Summary Peter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History argues that taken together Carey's novels make up a.
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Subject Carey, Peter, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Criticism and interpretation.
Carey, Peter, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Australia -- In literature.
Australia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Academic theses.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Gaile, Andreas. Rewriting history. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010 9789042030701 (OCoLC)648922780
ISBN 9789042030718 (electronic book)
9042030712 (electronic book)
9789042030701 (paperback)
9042030704 (paperback)
Standard No. 9786612727177