Gerald Murnane

Anthony Uhlmann is director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.

'So in an interesting way, this is a book directly in touch with its subject—it includes new contributions from the author himself, his publisher and editor Ivor Indyk, and his authorised critical biographer Shannon Burns ... Another World in This One offers a praiseworthy series of attentive and careful engagements with the intricacies of Murnane’s fictions. Much of his oeuvre is intelligently analysed, and particular critical attention is deservedly reserved for the four works of fiction he has published since 2009.'

• AcknowledgementsGerald Murnane: a chronologyIntroduction by Anthony Uhlmann 1. Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s golf club by Tristan Foster2. To the eye untrained by Luke Carman3. Truth, fiction and true fiction by Shannon Burns4. Images and feelings in a sort of eternity: Gerald Murnane’s ideal female reader by Samantha Trayhurn5. Retrospective intention: the implied author and the coherence of the oeuvre in Border Districts and The Plains by Emmett Stinson6. Stream system, salient image and feeling: between Barley Patch and Inland by Brigid Rooney7. Gerald Murnane’s plain style by Mark Byron8. Landscape within landscape: the intertwining of the visible and the invisible in Gerald Murnane and Henry James by Suzie Gibson9. Memory, image and reading traces of the infinite: A History of Books by Arka Chattopadhyay10. Reporting meaning in Border Districts by Anthony Uhlmann11. What kind of literary history is A History of Books? by Ivor Indyk 12. The still-breathing author by Gerald MurnaneAbout the contributorsIndex