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Book The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

Download or read book The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle written by Paul Eggert and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur’s two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive. The letters selected for this edition document Harpur’s life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances. This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.

Book Australian Poetry

Download or read book Australian Poetry written by Paul Kane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.

Book Charles Harpur

Download or read book Charles Harpur written by Judith Wright and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Poems of Charles Harpur

Download or read book Selected Poems of Charles Harpur written by Charles Harpur and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the County of Derby

Download or read book The History of the County of Derby written by Stephen Glover and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Emus to the King of Siam

Download or read book Five Emus to the King of Siam written by Helen Tiffin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as 'human', 'savage', 'civilised', 'natural', 'progressive', and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal 'exchange', by the transport of animals, plants and peoples throughout the European empires, instigating widespread ecosystem change under unequal power regimes (a harbinger of today's 'globalization'). This book considers these imperial 'exchanges' and charts some contemporary legacies of those inequitable imports and exports, transportations and transmutations. Sheep farming in Australia, transforming the land as it dispossessed the native inhabitants, became a symbol of (new, white) nationhood. The transportation of plants (and animals) into and across the Pacific, even where benign or nostalgic, had widespread environmental effects, despite the hopes of the acclimatisation societies involved, and, by extension, of missionary societies "planting the seeds of Christianity." In the Caribbean, plantation slavery pushed back the "jungle" (itself an imported word) and erased the indigenous occupants - one example of the righteous, biblically justified cultivation of the wilderness. In Australia, artistic depictions of landscape, often driven by romantic and 'gothic' aesthetics, encoded contradictory settler mindsets, and literary representations of colonial Kenya mask the erasure of ecosystems. Chapters on the early twentieth century (in Canada, Kenya, and Queensland) indicate increased awareness of the value of species-preservation, conservation, and disease control. The tension between traditional and 'Euroscientific' attitudes towards conservation is revealed in attitudes towards control of the Ganges, while the urge to resource exploitation has produced critical disequilibrium in Papua New Guinea. Broader concerns centering on ecotourism and ecocriticism are treated in further essays summarising how the dominant West has alienated 'nature' from human beings through commodification in the service of capitalist 'progress'.

Book The Bushrangers

Download or read book The Bushrangers written by Charles Harpur and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies

Download or read book The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies written by Paul Eggert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

Book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

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.

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The ALS Guide to Australian Writers

Download or read book The ALS Guide to Australian Writers written by Martin Duwell and published by St. Lucia, Australia : University of Queensland Library. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically organised chronological listing of the primary works of each author, as well as selected critical, biographical, and historical articles and reviews and interviews. Material is drawn from the series 'Annual Bibliographies of Studies in Australian Literature' published in 'Australian Literary Studies' between 1964 and 1991.

Book The British Empire Series  Australasia

Download or read book The British Empire Series Australasia written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australasia

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  • Release : 1900
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  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Australasia written by and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1900 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beginnings of an Australian Literature

Download or read book The Beginnings of an Australian Literature written by Arthur Patchett Martin and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Such is Life

Download or read book The Life of Such is Life written by Roger Osborne and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 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 reveal about Australian cultural life? From Furphy’s handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a “mutilation”), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphy’s first editors at the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and “corrected” his Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how Furphy’s work should be published. In a fascinating piece of literary detective work, Osborne traces the book’s journey and shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we read today.

Book The Leisure Hour

Download or read book The Leisure Hour written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Leisure Hour Monthly Library

Download or read book The Leisure Hour Monthly Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: