James Gourley

James Gourley is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Western Sydney University where he is a member of its Writing and Society Research Centre. His research addresses 20th and 21st century literature. James is currently researching the literature produced in Australia as a consequence of its historical medical epidemics.

Works By James Gourley

Australia’s Plague Archive
'The plague archive that interests me most combines the factual and the fictional, the historical and the contemporary. Reading the stories of Australia’s early twentieth-century plague outbreak gives us insight into the emotional experience of an...
16 Nov. 2020
In the ruins of the future: Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
There is a certain similarity of reaction, so the story goes, to a new Thomas Pynchon novel. Each generates a sense of anticipation; we ask ourselves whether the new Pynchon will approximate the mind-shattering impact that Gravity’s Rainbow had on...
1 Apr. 2014

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James Gourley

Works By James Gourley

Australia’s Plague Archive

In the ruins of the future: Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon