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Messengers of Eros : representations of sex in Australian writing / by Xavier Pons.

Title: Messengers of Eros : representations of sex in Australian writing / by Xavier Pons.
Author: Pons, Xavier.
Publication: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

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Description

viii, 361 p.; 22 cm.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-354) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Comings and Goings -- Reservoirs of Desire -- Transgressions -- Sex and Literature -- Australian Fantasies -- Australian Masculinities -- Dance of the Emotional Void -- The Joys of Irresponsible Sex -- 'The Great Dirty Joke Black Velvet' -- Blood and Water--Feminine Writing in Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman -- Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind -- To Be a Man and To Have a Man: Sex, Gender and Ethnicity in Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded -- A.D. Hope and the 'Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes' -- 'The angels are not winning' -- Homoeroticism in David Malouf's Fiction -- Exotic Pleasures -- 'Blackfella Loving' -- Letting it all Hang Out.

ISBN

9781443805230 (pbk.)
1443805238 (pbk.)

OCLC

319210094

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library