| The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-Reading Contributor(s): Petersen, Teresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0522849229 ISBN-13: 9780522849226 Publisher: Melbourne University OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 823.2 |
| Series: Provocative Re-Reading |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.64" W x 8.6" (0.84 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christina Stead (1902-1983) is arguably Australia s greatest female novelist. Stead s concentrated emotional intensity, her interest in extraordinary passion, and her keen sense of fantasy and the grotesque have led to comparisons with D. H. Lawrence, Dostoevsky, and Dickens. Petersen argues that although Stead's texts are saturated with a heterosexual norm, it is a facade that masks both lesbianism and male homosexual desire. " |