The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music Jean Robertson

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music Jean RobertsonImagined Sound is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of imagined sound, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space.

the Moons and the Walshes

This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare’s debt to Montaigne

Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies

gender and patronage

Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation

1825–1833

have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory

and trends that are shaping current and future practice

Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world

distinguished art critic James Elkins offers a critique of general histories of visuality

It also explores Disraeli 'the man' and his motivations and ambitions

depression and more besides