Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones' Five Bells

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  • Robert Dixon University of Sydney

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Gail Jones

Abstract

In this article, the first on Five Bells, I outline several contexts that will be foundational for subsequent readings of the novel. They include its relationship to Kenneth Slessor's poem; Jones' interest in the French Situationist International and their theories of urbanism and psychogeography; the influence of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, trauma studies and the trauma novel; and another cluster of themes associated with Pastnernak's Doctor Zhivago, World Literature, cosmopolitanism and global translatio.

Author Biography

  • Robert Dixon, University of Sydney
    Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney

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2013-04-03

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2012): Philosophy, Canonicity, Reading

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