Download or read book Australian Writers 1975 2000 written by Selina Samuels and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the literary historiography of Australia provide an overview of prominent and influential Australian writers of the literary and cultural movements from 1975 to 2000. A period marked by strong female voices and concern to represent the female experience. Discusses the wide stylistic sweep of the Australian writers of this period; the diversity of poetry, dramatists who wrote scripts for movies and television and traditional genres such as fiction and drama.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature written by Peter Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.
Download or read book Australian Writers written by Selina Samuels and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel written by David Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.
Download or read book Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand written by Faye H. Christenberry and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a research guide to the literatures of Australia and New Zealand. It contains references to many different types of resources, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of these two distinct but closely connected countries.
Download or read book Australian Classics written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present. Australian Class...
Download or read book Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature written by Anita Heiss and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history, and life through the writings of some of the great Australian Aboriginal authors. From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary writing, Anita Heiss and Peter Minter have selected works that represent the range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. Journalism, petitions, and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are brought together with major works of poetry, prose, and drama from the mid-twentieth century onward. These works voice not only the ongoing suffering of dispossession but the resilience of Australia's Aboriginal people, their hope and joy. Presenting some of the best, most distinctive writing produced in Australia, this groundbreaking anthology will captivate anyone interested in Aboriginal writing and culture.
Download or read book Australian Writers 1950 1975 written by Selina Samuels and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a picture of Australian literary production in the period from the accession of Robert Menzies through the dreary 1950s and the upsurge of the 1960s, to the years of Gough Whitlam and his removal from office with Kerr's coup.
Download or read book Australian Made written by Sonia Mycak and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Presenting the work of critics and scholars from both Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives as it explores what it means for a writer or a reader to be 'Australian' and a text to be 'Australian made'.
Download or read book Lighting Dark Places written by Sue Kossew and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville's Fiction /Susan Sheridan -- Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual /Brigid Rooney -- Author, Author!: The Two Faces of Kate Grenville /Elizabeth Mcmahon -- Madness and Power: Lilian's Story and the Decolonized Body /Bill Ashcroft -- “Africa and Australia” Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville's Joan Makes History /Kwaku Larbi Korang -- “Mobility is the Key”: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story /Ruth Barcan -- Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian's Story and Dreamhouse /Kate Livett -- “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian's Story from Page to Screen /Alice Healy -- Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection /Sue Kossew -- Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville's The Secret River /Eleanor Collins -- History, Fiction, and The Secret River /Sarah Pinto -- Learning From Each Other: Language, Authority and Authenticity in Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant /Lynette Russell -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Download or read book Nine Lives written by Susan Sheridan and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books. The traditional view of this postwar period is of successful male writers, with women still confined to the domestic sphere. In "Nine Lives," Susan Sheridan rewrites the pages of history to foreground the women writers who contributed equally to this literary renaissance. Sheridan traces the early careers of nine Australian women writers born between 1915 and 1925, who each achieved success between the mid 1940s and 1970s. Judith Wright and Thea Astley published quickly to resounding critical acclaim, while Gwen Harwood's frustration with chauvinistic literary editors prompted her pseudonymous poetry. Fiction writers Elizabeth Jolley, Amy Witting and Jessica Anderson remained unpublished until they were middle-aged; Rosemary Dobson, Dorothy Hewett and Dorothy Auchterlonie Green started strongly as poets in the 1940s, but either reduced their output or fell silent for the next twenty years. Sheridan considers why their careers developed differently from the careers of their male counterparts and how they balanced marriage, family and writing. This illuminating group biography offers a fresh perspective on mid-twentieth century Australian literature, and the women writers who helped to shape it.
Download or read book Nick Enright written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Enright (1950-2003) was one of Australia’s most significant and successful playwrights. As a writer, director, actor and teacher he influenced theatre in Australia for thirty years. Enright wrote more than fifty plays for the stage, film, television and radio, translated and adapted more, and taught acting to students in varied settings, both in Australia and the United States. His writing repertoire included comedy, social realism, farce, fantasy and the musical. In addition to his prodigious contribution to all of these genres, he was a passionate advocate for the actor and the theatre in contemporary society. In this volume Anne Pender and Susan Lever present a set of essays and recollections about Nick Enright’s work for students, teachers and scholars. The book offers a comprehensive study of Enright’s writing for theatre, film and television. Scholars, acting teachers and theatre directors have contributed to this work each illuminating an aspect of Enright’s remarkable career. The discussions cover interpretations of Enright’s scripts and productions, detailed analysis of his directing style, substantial background and analysis of his writing for musicals, as well as accounts of his specific approach to acting and to adaptation across genres. The essays and recollections included in this book will inspire theatre practitioners as well as scholars. Most importantly, this book will inform and enlighten students and teachers both at high school and university about an exceptional career in the theatre.
Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transmesis written by Thomas O. Beebee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations.
Download or read book Gender Madness and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature written by Laura Deane and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial perspective. This book rethinks women’s madness in the context of Australian colonialism. Taking novels of madness by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville as its point of critical departure, it applies a post-Reconciliation lens to the study of Australia’s gender and racial codes, to place Australian sexism and misogyny in their proper colonial context. Employing madness as a frame to rethink postcolonial theorizing in Australia, Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature psychoanalyses colonialism to argue that Australia suffers from a cultural pathology based in the strategic forgetting of colonial violence. This pathology takes the form of colonial paranoia about ‘race’ and gender, producing distorted gender codes and ways of being Australian. This book maps the contours of Australian colonial paranoia, weaving feminist literary theory, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory with poststructuralist approaches to reassess the traditional canon of critical madness scholarship, and the place of women’s writing within it. This provocative work marks a radical departure from much recent feminist, cultural, and postcolonial criticism, and will be essential reading for students of Australian literature, cultural studies and gender studies wanting a new insight into how the Australian psyche is shaped by settler colonialism.
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Download or read book Re writing Spatiality written by Britta Kuhlenbeck and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this project is to encourage new ways of thinking about the meaning and significance of space. It follows a desire that has been expressed and theorized by Henri Lefebvre - and by extension Edward W. Soja - to remove Spatiality from the margin of the "Trialectics of Being" and to bring it into the "Trialectics' fold" alongside with - and of at least equal significance to - Historicality and Sociality. The thesis focuses on how space of the Pilbara region in Western Australia is produced in contemporary Australian writing, film, art and through "lived experience". The thesis argues for an understanding of space as essentially dynamic.
