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Michael Wilding and the fiction of instant experience
2013·262 pages
A scholarly study of Australian writer Michael Wilding, tracing his 'instant experience' aesthetic through fiction, memoirs, and publishing.
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A scholarly study of Australian writer Michael Wilding, tracing his 'instant experience' aesthetic through fiction, memoirs, and publishing.
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This book explores the work and career of Michael Wilding, one of the most significant literary figures in modern Australia. His oeuvre includes eleven volumes of short stories, several novels and memoirs, important editions of both Australian and English authors, and critical works on writers ranging from John Milton to Christina Stead. Through a close study of Wilding's short stories, novels, and memoirs this book traces the development of a complex aesthetic of "instant experience" or "immedi...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Analyzes frank sexual content in Wilding's counterculture fiction
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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Counterculture-era drug and alcohol themes discussed in context
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Covers protest, counterculture, and literary politics of 1960s-80s Sydney
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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