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Croft's distinction between land and landscape enables Tom Collins' realism and Joseph Furphy's metaphysics to be analysed. Tom Collins is closely allied to the land because his world is governed by the laws of property. Furphy, on the other hand, manipulates the epic and mythic qualities of the novel, creating a "metaphysical backdrop to the economic conflict and class struggle which occupies the foreground of Tom's diary entries".
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'A Nation for a Continent' : Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 141-154, 254) 'During the Federation era, the isomorphic association of literature, land, and nation found expression through the cartographic imaginary, a term that is meant to focus especially on the role of maps in shaping imagined geographies, but which also includes related media such as topographical engravings and photographic views. Contrary to Paul Giles's implication of an achieved "national period" in American literary history, however, Dixon argues that in Australia during the Federation era, the cartographic imaginary expressed an alignment of literature, land, and nation that was more wished for than achieved. He claims that the literature of the Federation period-in particular, the sketches and stories of Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (1896) and Joseph Furphy's novel Such is Life (1903)–reveals the uncertainties and the sense of incompletion that attend the cartographic imaginary.' (Publication abstract)
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'A Nation for a Continent' : Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 141-154, 254) 'During the Federation era, the isomorphic association of literature, land, and nation found expression through the cartographic imaginary, a term that is meant to focus especially on the role of maps in shaping imagined geographies, but which also includes related media such as topographical engravings and photographic views. Contrary to Paul Giles's implication of an achieved "national period" in American literary history, however, Dixon argues that in Australia during the Federation era, the cartographic imaginary expressed an alignment of literature, land, and nation that was more wished for than achieved. He claims that the literature of the Federation period-in particular, the sketches and stories of Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (1896) and Joseph Furphy's novel Such is Life (1903)–reveals the uncertainties and the sense of incompletion that attend the cartographic imaginary.' (Publication abstract)
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Between Hay and Booligal : Tom Collins' Land and Joseph Furphy's Landscape
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- Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins 1897 single work novel
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