Martin Leer Martin Leer i(A11873 works by) (a.k.a. Martin Hugo Leer)
Gender: Male
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1 'O People of Little Weight in the Memory of These Places!' : Desert Narration in Tourmaline Martin Leer , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021;
1 The Copenhagen Branch Bruce A. Clunies Ross , Martin Leer , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: I’m Listening Like the Orange Tree : In Memory of Laurie Hergenhan 2021; (p. 135-150)
1 Being International?’ Edith Campbell Berry’s Geneva in Frank Moorhouse’s 'Grand Days' Martin Leer , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;

'Can one be an insider in international affairs—or does being international condemn one to a kind of permanent outside, even within one’s original nation? This question may not be at the top of most people’s list of priorities, unless you are Edith Campbell Berry in Frank Moorhouse’s Grand Days, his novel from 1993 set in Geneva in the 1920s—or me as a Dane teaching anglophone postcolonial literatures in present-day Geneva. For Edith it is an urgent matter of identity; for me more an intriguing balancing act where identity (which I really don’t understand or approve of, anyway) for all practical purposes gives way to finesse. Or for both of us, a balancing act of survival in a situation where inside and outside are completely imbricated in each other, yet still active as opposites.' (Introduction)

1 Honour the Single Soul : Homage to Randolph Stow (1936-2010) Martin Leer , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 26 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-19)

In this essay, both an obituary and a critical overview of Stow's work, Leer aims to 'honour the single soul who was Randolph Stow - and explore how the idea of the single soul informs his writing' (p.2).

1 'Dry and Upside Down' on Telegraph Wire : The Geopoetics of the Line in Australian Poetry Martin Leer , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 1 no. 2009; (p. 73-89)

'This essay traces what it sees as a geopoetic trope in Australian literature: the poetic verse-line as a boundary-fence. Basing itself on poems by John Kinsella, Judith Wright, Phillip[sic] Hodgins, Randolph Stow and Les Murray, the poem argues for a development of this trope in the context of the wider geopoetic endeavour in which Australian landscape poetry has been involved: of coming to terms with a new environment and the Aboriginal culture already geopoetically there.

Following Tim Ingold's reinterpretation of the line in human culture in Lines: A Brief History, it sees the line, rather than metrics or rhythm (or the line as a reflection of breaks in rhythm) as the defining characteristic of verse in an age of writing. The verse-line is how poetry spatially imprints the temporal order of a culture on a perceived world, but also how it reflects on that world within the space of a poem. Traditional European poetry measures the verse-line as a plough-furrow (the etymology of versus), a retracing of patterns, which the essay argues, New World postcolonial literatures de-measure: in Canadian landscape poetry the line becomes the overwhelming horizon; in Caribbean poetry the tidalectic wave; in Australian poetry the boundary fence, ambiguously demarcating what is inside and outside.' Source: Martin Leer.

1 y separately published work icon Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Werner Senn vol. 1 Anne Holden Rønning (editor), Martin Leer (editor), 2009 Z1690378 2009 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Bodies and Voices : The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies Merete Falck Borch (editor), Bruce A. Clunies Ross (editor), Martin Leer (editor), Eva Rask Knudsen (editor), Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2008 Z1512526 2008 anthology criticism A wide-ranging collection of essays centred on readings of the body in contemporary literary and socio-anthropological discourse, from slavery and rape to female genital mutilation, from clothing, ocular pornography, voice, deformation and transmutation to the imprisoned, dismembered, remembered, abducted or ghostly body, in Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Eire. - from back cover
1 Someone Else's Story? Reflections on Australian Studies in Europe Eva Rask Knudsen , Martin Leer , Stuart Ward , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Thinking Australian Studies : Teaching Across Cultures 2004; (p. 211-223)
1 Language Dreaming : On Translating Les Murray into Danish Martin Leer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 181-194)
1 'Only the Centre Holds' : The Meditative Landscapes of Les Murray Martin Leer , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Les Murray and Australian Poetry 2002; (p. 41-64)
1 'This Country is My Mind' : Les Murray's Poetics of Place Martin Leer , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 2 2001; (p. 15-42) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 44)
Examines the "notion of place in Murray's work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a 'centre of the world', and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections" (p.16).
1 y separately published work icon En helt almindelig Regnbue : digte Les Murray , Martin Leer (editor), ( trans. Martin Leer )expression Copenhagen : Gyldendal , 1998 Z912091 1998 selected work poetry A selection of poems from Collected Poems (1994) and Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996).
1 Gravity and Grace: Towards a Meta-Physics of Embodiment in the Poetry of Les Murray Martin Leer , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Counterbalancing Light : Essays on the Poetry of Les Murray 1997; (p. 137-158)
1 Timing 'the Flood that Does Not Flow': Aspects of Space-Time and Dream-Time in Australian Poetry Martin Leer , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996; (p. 87-100)
1 `Contour-Line by Contour': Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray Martin Leer , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 3 1994; (p. 249-261)
1 Mal du Pays : Symbolic Geography in the Work of Randolph Stow Martin Leer , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 15 no. 1 1991; (p. 3-25)
1 2 Imagined Counterpart: Outlining a Conceptual Literary Geography of Australia Martin Leer , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 15 no. 2 1991; (p. 1-13)
1 From Linear to Areal: Suggestions Towards a Comparative Literary Geography of Canada and Australia Martin Leer , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 12 no. 3 1990; (p. 75-85)
1 y separately published work icon Edge to Centre : Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf, Randolph Stow and Les A. Murray Martin Leer , St Lucia : 1989 Z1204787 1989 single work thesis
1 At the Edge : Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf Martin Leer , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 12 no. 1 1985; (p. 3-21) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 35)
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