The Sydney Harbour Bridge: from modernity to post-modernity in Australian fiction

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  • Paul Genoni Curtin University of Technology

Keywords:

Syndey Harbour Bridge, Circular Quay, Sydney Cove, modernism, modernity, postmodernism

Abstract

This paper considers a recent spate of novels that deal in various ways with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. These include Peter Corris's Wet Graves; Alex Miller's Conditions of Faith; Vicki Hastrich's The Great Arch; and Sarah Hay's The Body in the Clouds. It is argued that these novels, written so long after the bridge's completion, are each grappling with the transformation of this icon of Australian modernism into the significant component in the nation's foremost experience of postmoadern urban space - Circular Quay.

Author Biography

Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology

School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts

Curtin University

Associate Professor

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012): Field, Curriculum, Emotion

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