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Gerald Murnane
Another World in This One
Av Anthony Uhlmann, Anthony Uhlmann
Häftad, 2020
404 kr
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Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of …
Alex Miller
The Ruin of Time
Av Robert Dixon
Häftad, 2014
404 kr
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Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness substantial, technically masterful and …
Shirley Hazzard
New Critical Essays
Häftad, 2014
404 kr
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Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard’s writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.Hazzard’s …
Contemporary Australian Literature
A World Not Yet Dead
Av Nicholas Birns, New York University
Häftad, 2015
404 kr
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Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how …
Christina Stead and the Matter of America
Häftad, 2019
371 kr
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This is the first critical study to focus on Stead’s time in America and its influence on her writing.
Colonial Australian Fiction
Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared – and disappeared – in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social …
Fiction of Tim Winton
Earthed and Sacred
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a major Australian author who bridges the literary–popular divide.Tim Winton has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award a record four times and has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His novels and short stories are …
Elizabeth Harrower
Critical Essays
Av Elizabeth McMahon, Brigitta Olubas
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Harrower’s fiction. Featuring essays by leading researchers in Australian literature, this volume offers new insights into a writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, and invites readers to read …
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s
Av David Carter, Roger Osborne
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.
Richard Flanagan
Critical Essays
Av Robert Dixon
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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Richard Flanagan: New Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Flanagan’s fiction.
Fallen Among Reformers
Miles Franklin, Modernity and the New Woman
Av Janet Lee
Häftad, 2020
404 kr
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‘Fallen Among Reformers’ focuses on Stella Miles Franklin’s New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women’s Trade Union League (1906-1915).
Gail Jones
Word, Image, Ethics
Häftad, 2020
392 kr
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Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of the award-winning Australian author Gail Jones.
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Writing from the Colonial Frontier
Av Jason Rudy, Stuart Gibson m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
404 kr
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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem “The Aboriginal Mother,” written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her …
Patrick White's Theatre
Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018
Häftad, 2021
404 kr
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Winner of the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions … This is an …
Life of Such is Life
A Cultural History of an Australian Classic
Häftad, 2022
392 kr
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Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022 Winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history …
Inner and Outer Worlds
Gail Jones' Fiction
Häftad, 2022
404 kr
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Gail Jones is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country.This …
Middlebrow Modernism
Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction
Häftad, 2022
404 kr
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Winner of the Alvie Egan Award 2023Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position …
Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend
Australian women's war fictions
Av Donna Coates
Häftad, 2023
391 kr
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War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story.In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their …
Time, Tide and History
Eleanor Dark's Fiction
Av Brigid Rooney, Fiona Morrison
Häftad, 2024
396 kr
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Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing.This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s …
Time, Tide and History
Eleanor Dark's Fiction
Av Brigid Rooney, Fiona Morrison
Inbunden, 2024
702 kr
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