{"product_id":"the-tomis-complex-irina-grigorescu-pana-9783906756240","title":"The Tomis Complex: Exile and Eros in Australian Literature","description":"The \u003ci\u003eTomis Complex\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the ways in which the experience and the dilemmas of exile contribute to the shaping of Australian cultural and literary identity. The book, taking its cue from Malouf's rewriting of Ovid's exile at Tomis, looks at representations of marginality in various antipodean texts, from early colonial to modern and contemporary - among them Rachel Hennings's letters, H.H. Richardson's \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/i\u003e, White's \u003ci\u003eVoss\u003c\/i\u003e, Malouf's \u003ci\u003eAn Imaginary Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Stow's \u003ci\u003eTourmaline\u003c\/i\u003e, Carey's short stories - and argues that the  edge  is not in opposition, but in resonance with the  centre .\u003cbr\u003e Using a clearly-defined set of literary and theoretic terms, predominantly from deconstruction and psychoanalysis, Irina Grigorescu Pana argues that exile also correlates with an eros factor: if, as the Australian poet Judith Wright writes,  love is like a foreign land , the foreign land is no less like love, as homeland and the  other country  become objects of desire to the protagonists of dislocation and colonization.\u003cbr\u003e The new land is, thus, by extrapolation, a refiguration of the  old country  that is neither derivative, nor definitive, but an ongoing, spectacular translation: a tale of love and exile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irina Grigorescu Pana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3906756246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783906756240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Irina Grigorescu Pana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487088193791,"sku":"9783906756240","price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a1b5ac9-7b1d-4cb4-84ee-3346091c34e3.jpg?v=1778058268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tomis-complex-irina-grigorescu-pana-9783906756240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}