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David Foster: The Satirist of Australia by Senior Lecturer in English Susan Lever (Hardback, 2008)
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Subtitle The Satirist of Australia. David Foster is the most original, challenging, contradictory, risk-taking and infuriating Australian novelist of his generation. To date he has published twelve novels, three collections of novellas and short stories, two books of poetry, and a collection of essays, with several produced radio plays.
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David Foster is the most original, challenging, contradictory, risk-taking and infuriating Australian velist of his generation. To date he has published twelve vels, three collections of vellas and short stories, two books of poetry, and a collection of essays, with several produced radio plays. Foster writes in an Australian tradition of idiosyncratic satire and comedy that may be traced through the work of Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert and David Ireland. His vels are the most wide-ranging and fearless of the Australian vels that have contributed to the late twentieth-century re-examination of Western ideologies and the literary forms in which they are expressed. In this first critical study of David Foster's works, Professor Susan Lever steers us into penetrating the mysteries of Foster's fiction, and provides guidance to readers willing to approach them. The book examines the contradictory nature of his commitments and interests as expressed mainly in his vels. Each of his works of fiction and poetry in the order of publication (except for The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross and The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover which are discussed with similar vels) are discussed. The development of Foster's philosophical ideas and technique as a velist over the 35 years of his writing life to date is followed. The book also examines Foster's letters to Geoffrey Dutton early in his career; his interviews and essays provide some of the background to these vels. The book also furnishes a sense of the Australian context for his work. A brief biography of Foster's early life and a discussion of his approach to satire is also included.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambria Press
ISBN-101934043982
ISBN-139781934043981
eBay Product ID (ePID)105195319
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Content NoteBlack & White Illustrations
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
Author(s)Senior Lecturer in English Susan Lever
Date of Publication18/03/2008
Format DetailsSewn,Cloth over Boards
SubjectBiography: Literary
ImprintCambria Press
Country of PublicationUnited States
