Acknowledgements
Introduction
Brigitta Olubas
Part 1: between short fiction and the novel
1. Future anterior: The Evening of the Holiday by John Frow
2. ‘This intricate lasting nature’: passage, pastoral elegy and the
pedagogy of loss in The Evening of the Holiday by Fiona
Morrison
Part 2: Naples and The Bay of Noon
3. Another journey to Italy: The Bay of Noon by Lucy Dougan
4. ‘No-one had thought of looking close to home’: reading the
province in The Bay of Noon by Bridget Rooney
5. ‘Naples is a leap’: time, space and consciousness in Shirley
Hazzard’s Naples by Sharon Ouditt
Part 3: The Transit of Venus
6. Glasses and speculations: on Hazzard’s transits by Gail
Jones
7. Returning to the scene of the crime: on re-reading The Transit
of Venus by Robert Dixon
Part 4: writing at the mid-century
8. The mid-century method of The Great Fire by Claire Seiler
9. Does idealism preclude heroism? Shirley Hazzard’s United Nations
writings by Nicholas Birns
Part 5: biography
10. The transit of Shirley Hazzard by Jan McGuinness
11. Meeting Shirley Hazzard by Martin Stannard
Index
Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born author, Shirley Hazzard.
Brigitta Olubas is an associate professor of English at the University of New South Wales.
‘a vibrant gathering of critics, discussing Hazzard’s writing with
infectious engagement. This book is a great professional
achievement for the publisher at a time when we need to consolidate
our understanding of established writers, who risk slipping from
critical view as we attend to the new.’
*Australian Book Review*
‘the uniqueness of this collection is made all the more surprising
by the depth and richness each essay finds in Hazzard’s writing.
There is, as Olubas makes clear in her introduction, much to be
considered in the wide-reaching body of work Hazzard has given
us.’
*JASAL*
“Olubas has brought together a number of critical essays on
Hazzard’s fiction with two biographical pieces. Her intention is to
expand the critical conversation on this important writer …
invaluable for readers and critics who want to explore the power
and subtlety of Hazzard’s fiction.”
*Transnational Literature*
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