Published by UWA Publishing, Crawley,, 2011
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Paperback, octavo; 502pp., monochrome illustrations. Minor wear to edges and corners of cover. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Suzanne Falkiner's biography of little-read English novelist Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson (his mother preferred to call him Peter) is comprehensive and beautifully written, but perhaps its most compelling feature is the solid case it builds for his enduring claim on our attention. In the concluding pages of The Imago, Falkiner surveys the patchy critical response to her subject and recalls her initial encounter with his work. She goes on to express mild surprise that he is not better known. It is a measure of her achievement that by the end of the book the reader is inclined to agree with her. Though never a writer to command a large audience, his literary career attracted the notice of luminaries such as Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad, and his 'Australian novels' prefigured the work of Patrick White, Randolph Stow, Katharine Susannah Prichard and others. As Falkiner establishes, his life and work also involved him in a series of interesting personal reflections on some of the intellectual questions of his day, a process that transformed him from a scientist steeped in late 19th-century rationalism to an idiosyncratic Jungian with mystical tendencies. The defining experience of Grant Watson's life was the year he spent in Western Australia as a young man. Having studied biology at Cambridge, he arrived at Albany in June 1910 to take part in an anthropological expedition headed by Alfred Brown, an acquaintance from his university days. Also among the party was the controversial anthropologist Daisy Bates. His Australian novels - Where Bonds are Loosed, The Mainland, The Desert Horizon, Daimon, The Nun and the Bandit and The Partners - were prescient rather than influential. They may anticipate Voss in various ways, but White never read them. Yet this does not diminish the validity of the basic claim Falkiner makes in The Imago. In a sense, it doesn't matter that White did not read Grant Watson; they intuited something similar about the symbolic power of the Australian landscape." - James Ley, The Australian.
Published by UWA Publishing, Perth, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
Seller: Berry Books, Berry, NSW, Australia
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Published by UWA Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
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Published by UWA Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by UWA Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by UWA Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Published by UWA Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921401559 ISBN 13: 9781921401558
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New.