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Colleen McCullough A Critical Companion
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Mary Jean DeMarr
Book Code: GR9499
ISBN: 0-313-29499-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29499-0
208 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/1996
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £26.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Although best known for The Thorn Birds, her blockbuster family saga set in her native Australia, Colleen McCullough is a versatile novelist who has written in a variety of genres. This is the first full-length examination of her work. It highlights her versatility and her refusal to be confined to any one genre or type of writing, even though that refusal has lost her part of the wide readership she gained with The Thorn Birds. DeMarr discusses, analyzes, and evaluates each of McCullough's eight novels in turn, relates it to the genre to which it belongs, and compares it to her other work. This study also features a biographical chapter and a chapter which discusses the variety of genres in which McCullough has written. DeMarr shows how McCullough's romances (Tim and The Ladies of Missalonghi) and her other novels which make heavy use of romance elements (The Thorn Birds and An Indecent Obession) differ dramatically from each other. She also compares McCullough's novels of ideas (A Creed for the Third Millennium and the three recent historical novels set in ancient Rome, "The Masters of Rome" series). Each novel or series is discussed in a separate chapter, which contains sections on plot development and structure, character development, setting, style, and themes. Each novel is also examined from an alternate critical approach, such as feminist, allegorical, anti-generic, and deconstructionist criticism, to widen the reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of McCullough's work, general criticism, and listings of reviews of each novel complete the work. This work will be of particular interest to public and school libraries.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Kathleen Gregory Klein
  • Colleen McCullough--The Woman and the Writer
  • A Writer of Many Genres
  • Tim: An Unequal Romance
  • The Thorn Birds: A Novel Which Made a Career
  • An Indecent Obsession: Love and Duty
  • A Creed for the Third Millennium: A Grim Future
  • The Ladies of Missalonghi: A Cynical Romance
  • "The Masters of Rome" series (The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortune's Favorites): A Brutal Ancient World
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-50452
LCC Class: PR9619
Dewey Class: 823
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