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What do women know of love? The women in this book find out that all love is paid for, in some way or another, a thing Dante Alighieri the Florentine could have told them. Observe Eden and know how to 'rebehold the stars.' (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
Notes
Dedication: To J.-the wind beneath my wings
Epigraph: Eden Observed
The priests have got a book that says
But for Adam's sin
Eden's garden would be there,
And I there within. WB Yeats
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
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IslandsC. A. Cranston,
2007single work criticism — Appears in:
The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers2007;(p. 219-260)This chapter investigates the impact of literary tropes on island topography. The survey approach of island literature is abandoned in favour of ecocritical praxis, examining instead the literature of selected temperate islands (with populations varying from 2 to 20,000). Cattle farming, ideological disjunction, and mortality are explored in two settler autobiographies set in 'paradise' (Three Hummock Island); 'descent with modification' is traced in the text and the farming practices (sealing, Soldier Settlement pastoral, and salvage) in a work of fiction based in 'Eden' (King Island); and in the final work (indigenous autobiography and myth set on North Stradbroke Island), the politics of the 'land ethic' and land rights confront a sea country pastoral. (from The Littoral Zone)
IslandsC. A. Cranston,
2007single work criticism — Appears in:
The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers2007;(p. 219-260)This chapter investigates the impact of literary tropes on island topography. The survey approach of island literature is abandoned in favour of ecocritical praxis, examining instead the literature of selected temperate islands (with populations varying from 2 to 20,000). Cattle farming, ideological disjunction, and mortality are explored in two settler autobiographies set in 'paradise' (Three Hummock Island); 'descent with modification' is traced in the text and the farming practices (sealing, Soldier Settlement pastoral, and salvage) in a work of fiction based in 'Eden' (King Island); and in the final work (indigenous autobiography and myth set on North Stradbroke Island), the politics of the 'land ethic' and land rights confront a sea country pastoral. (from The Littoral Zone)
