The Lost Dog
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2007
Z1431148
2007
single work
novel
mystery
(taught in 4 units)
'Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy.
'Set in present-day [2007] Australia and mid-twentieth century India, here is a haunting, layered work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the untamed, ancient continent beyond. With its atmosphere of menace and an acute sense of the unexplained in any story, it illuminates the collision of the wild and the civilised, modernity and the past, home and exile.' (Publisher's blurb)
This course explores some of the major authors, works, movements and reading theories of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A select of key literary texts will be read within, and/or against, a background of preceding and contemporary literary, political and artistic movements, focussing on Modernism and Postmodernism, the two most transformative cultural movements of the twentieth century. Both of these movements have been articulated in response to global conflicts, from the Great War to the (first) Gulf War. The course examines literature and culture as at once an expression of this history and a key means by which to reflect on it.
