Name: Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds
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Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

Edited By: Paul Genoni, Susan Sheridan

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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.

This second edition includes an updated bibliography. "Astley's signature is a highly allusive, layered and self-conscious prose style, non-linear and open-ended" (Gillian Whitlock, JASAL: Journal…

This second edition includes an updated bibliography.

“Astley’s signature is a highly allusive, layered and self-conscious prose style, non-linear and open-ended” (Gillian Whitlock, JASAL: Journal of Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 6, 2007, p. 154.)

“The essays offer insights into issues of language, art, gender and religion … as well as Astley’s evolving body of writing and the historical and literary context of her work” (Lyn Jacobs, Australian Literary Studies v.23, n.3, 2008, p.358).

Paul Genoni is a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University of Technology. He has a PhD in Australian literature from the University of Western Australia and is author of Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction (2004).

Susan Sheridan is Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Flinders University in Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has published extensively in feminist studies and Australian cultural history, her books including Christina Stead (1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women’s Writing, 1880s to 1930s (1995) and Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar Years (2002).

Kate Grenville, Paul Genoni