{"id":848367,"date":"2023-09-07T01:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=848367"},"modified":"2023-09-17T01:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:38:28","slug":"homemade-and-cosmopolitan-the-idiosyncratic-writing-of-gerald-murnane-continues-to-attract-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/books-literature\/homemade-and-cosmopolitan-the-idiosyncratic-writing-of-gerald-murnane-continues-to-attract-devotees","title":{"rendered":"Homemade and cosmopolitan, the idiosyncratic writing of Gerald Murnane continues to attract devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I taught Gerald Murnane&#8217;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 Already by then a rather outdated term, &#8220;postmodernism&#8221; never quite gelled with Murnane&#8217;s writing. But what I really wanted was for my students to read these unusual books in which &#8220;very little happens&#8221;. Review: Murnane &#8211; Emmett Stinson (Miegunyah Press) It is with this exact observation that Emmett Stinson begins his new critical study of Murnane. From the outset, he warns novice readers about the lack of conventional plotting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I taught Gerald Murnane&#8217;s Barley Patch (2009) and then, a little later, The Plains (1982) in two separate undergraduate courses. Each course was concerned, in specific ways,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}