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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice
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Notes

  • Based on the journal of Fra Mauro, ca. 1459-1556, an Italian monk and mapmaker after whom a crater on the moon is named.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Vintage UK ,       1997 .
      Extent: xviii, 151pp.
      ISBN: 0091834996 (pbk.), 0340695439
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Warner Books ,       1997 .
      Extent: 151p.
      ISBN: 0446673382 (pbk.)
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sceptre ,       1998 .
      Extent: 151p.
      ISBN: 0340717408
Alternative title: Der Traum des Kartenmachers : die Meditationen des Fra Mauro, Kartograph zu Venedig
Language: German
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The Transnational Fantasy : The Case of James Cowan Peter Matthews , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 67-73) 'Recent criticism has seen the rise of an approach to literature that views texts as products of 'transnationalism,' a move that arises from a growing sense that, in a global age, authors should not be bounded by the traditional limits of national culture. In her book Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006), for instance, Rebecca Walkowitz looks at how this trend has evolved in world Anglophone literature, extending from canonical writers like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf to such contemporary authors as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W.G. Sebald. In the field of Australian literature, the question of transnationalism is often linked to issues of postcolonialism, as reflected in recent critical works like Graham Huggan's Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007) and Nathanael O'Reilly's edited collection Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (2010), both of which examine how Australian literature and culture have metamorphosed in the new global context. While there is little doubt that world literature has been affected in important ways by this broadening of literary stage, there seems to be a widespread conflation between two similar but different terms: the transnational and transcultural. For while it is true that the culture of many countries arises from a cosmopolitan and diverse assortment of influences, this loosening of cultural boundaries between nations is far from being simultaneous with the decline of the state.' (Author's introduction)
y separately published work icon Dwelling Spaces David Crouch , St Lucia : 2003 Z1792826 2003 single work thesis 'This is an essay in ideas of dwelling in Australia. It brings together a set of contemporary Australian conceptions of interior space and suggests a way of considering the mechanics of writing intimate spaces. It is concerned with a pattern of themes and correspondences.'
Source: Author's abstract
A Mapmaker's Dream Paul H. Lorenz , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 2002; (p. 46-52)
ASAL Literary Awards Robert Dixon , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 41 1998; (p. 9-10)
A Sixteenth Century Dreamer Cassandra Pybus , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 24)
— Review of A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice James Cowan , 1996 single work novel
New World Order Rodney Hall , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , May vol. 2 no. 4 1997; (p. 22-24)
— Review of Revelations of a Spanish Infanta Sallie Muirden , 1996 single work novel ; A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice James Cowan , 1996 single work novel ; Feast of All Souls Richard Lunn , 1997 single work novel
A Sixteenth Century Dreamer Cassandra Pybus , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 24)
— Review of A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice James Cowan , 1996 single work novel
A Mapmaker's Dream Paul H. Lorenz , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 2002; (p. 46-52)
ASAL Literary Awards Robert Dixon , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 41 1998; (p. 9-10)
y separately published work icon Dwelling Spaces David Crouch , St Lucia : 2003 Z1792826 2003 single work thesis 'This is an essay in ideas of dwelling in Australia. It brings together a set of contemporary Australian conceptions of interior space and suggests a way of considering the mechanics of writing intimate spaces. It is concerned with a pattern of themes and correspondences.'
Source: Author's abstract
The Transnational Fantasy : The Case of James Cowan Peter Matthews , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 67-73) 'Recent criticism has seen the rise of an approach to literature that views texts as products of 'transnationalism,' a move that arises from a growing sense that, in a global age, authors should not be bounded by the traditional limits of national culture. In her book Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006), for instance, Rebecca Walkowitz looks at how this trend has evolved in world Anglophone literature, extending from canonical writers like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf to such contemporary authors as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W.G. Sebald. In the field of Australian literature, the question of transnationalism is often linked to issues of postcolonialism, as reflected in recent critical works like Graham Huggan's Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007) and Nathanael O'Reilly's edited collection Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (2010), both of which examine how Australian literature and culture have metamorphosed in the new global context. While there is little doubt that world literature has been affected in important ways by this broadening of literary stage, there seems to be a widespread conflation between two similar but different terms: the transnational and transcultural. For while it is true that the culture of many countries arises from a cosmopolitan and diverse assortment of influences, this loosening of cultural boundaries between nations is far from being simultaneous with the decline of the state.' (Author's introduction)
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