Homemade and cosmopolitan, the idiosyncratic writing of Gerald Murnane continues to attract devotees
- Written by: Brigid Rooney, Associate Professor (Affiliate), Australian Literature, University of Sydney
Keith Luke/Unsplash, CC BY-SASome time ago, I taught Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch (2009) and then, a little later, The Plains (1982) in two separate undergraduate courses. Each course was concerned, in specific ways, with postmodernism.
Already by then a rather outdated term, “postmodernism” never quite gelled with...