'Some mystical affinity': E. L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert

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  • Roslynn Haynes The University of New South Wales

Keywords:

E. L. Grant Watson, desert,

Abstract

The paper examines the way the desert functions in Grant Watson's novels Desert Horizon and Daimon and how he re-interprets in quasi-moral and spiritual terms experiences common to most desert travellers.

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2013-02-13

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1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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’Some mystical affinity’: E. L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 169-173. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9526