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Title: |
The Life of Such is Life |
| Sub-title: |
A Cultural History of an Australian Classic |
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| By (author): |
Roger Osborne |
| ISBN10-13: |
1743327692 : 9781743327692 |
| Illustrations: |
, |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
254x178mm |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Weight: |
.270 Kg. |
| Published: |
Sydney University Press - March 2022 |
| List Price: |
40.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Anthologies (non-poetry) : Literature: history & criticism : Australia |
| Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022 Winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphyâ s Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphyâ s handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a â mutilationâ ), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphyâ s first editors at the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and â correctedâ his Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how Furphyâ s work should be published.In a fascinating piece of literary detective work, Osborne traces the bookâ s journey and shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we read today. |
| Table of Contents: |
| List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology Introduction: Entangled in the Work; Bushman and Bookworm: Furphy's Literary Foundations; Such is Life: From the Writer's Sanctum to the Literary Marketplace; Versions of Such is Life: Typescript and Book; An Anabranch of Such is Life: Rigby's Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book; The Death of the Author: Kate Baker's Such is Life; Wartime Revival: Tom Collins in the 1940s; Shaping the Canon: Joseph Furphy Goes to University; Epilogue: Where the (adj. sheol) is Joseph Furphy's Such is Life? Works Cited; Index. |
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