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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 The Pathos of Distance
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Berne,
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Switzerland,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Peter Lang , 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Australian Literature and Europe, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism
Surveys European influences on Australian literature.
 (p. 3-12)
Christopher Brennan's Wanderer, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 13-26)
Christopher Brennan and "Die Romantik", Noel Macainsh , single work criticism biography (p. 27-40)
Christopher Brennan's Poetic, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism
Macainsh discusses the influences on Brennan's poetry, paying particular attention to German Romanticism and French Symbolism. Brennan's time in Germany during the 1890s exposed him to the neo-romanticism of Berlin intellectuals. Brennan looked at the development of Western literature from this point of view and hailed the works of Stephane Mallarme as the contemporary epitome of an "ever-repeated striving for the ideal of Symbolic literature".
 (p. 41-62)
Brennan and Berlin : Some Circumstances, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 62-74)
Brennan and Music, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 75-87)
Steps into the Forest: Christopher Brennan's Fatal Attraction, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism
Macainsh challenges the view of previous criticism that the persona of Poems (1913) is in search of God. Macainsh argues instead that the object of the poet's quest is himself which he discovers through the female. This quest instils a craving for unity that can only be achieved through the impossible synthesis of the past and future. Macainsh concludes: "It is the poet's present that bears the curse of what sunders these two".
 (p. 88-108)
Richard Mahony as Papa Hamlet : Consequent Naturalism in The Fortunes, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism
Discusses the influence of Naturalism on Henry Handel Richardson's work, including "what German literature made of Zola's theories" but particularly exploring the influence of a "show-piece of so-called 'Consequent Naturalism' written by Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf : 'Papa Hamlet. A Death.' (Papa Hamlet. Ein Tod) first published in 1889, a year after Richardson's arrival in Leipzig." (p.134)
 (p. 109-126)
Point-of-View and Consequent Naturalism in the Novels of Henry Handel Richardson, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 127-141)
Not a Love Story - Henry Handel Richardson's Maurice Guest, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 142-156)
Baylebridge, Nietzsche, Shaw : Some Observations on the 'New Nationalism', Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 157-178)
The Renaissance-Revival in Early Modern Australian Poetry, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 179-198)
Music in Mirabell : James McAuley and Georg Trakl, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 199-213)
The Late Poems of James McAuley, Noel Macainsh , single work (p. 214-228)
Whatever Happened to Beauty?, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 229-242)
The Character of Voss, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 243-253)
Voss and His Communications : A Structural Contrast, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 254-266)
Patrick White's Myth of the Artist : Dionysos as Vivisector, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 267-278)
Nihilism, Nature and A Fringe of Leaves, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 279-289)
Patrick White and the Aesthetics of Death, Noel Macainsh , single work criticism (p. 290-303)
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