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Author: Nicholas Birns
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781571133496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.
Author: Peter Pierce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-17
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 052188165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 1000281701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.
Author: Phyllis Fahrie Edelson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1993-03-16
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selections from major voices in Australian literature encompassing short stories, memoirs, novels, and aboriginal writings.
Author: Belinda Wheeler
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1571135219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
Author: Samia Khatun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0190922605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.
Author: Nicholas Jose
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country."--Thomas Keneally, from the foreword
Author: Nicholas Birns
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1743324367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice – one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many. "In this remarkable, bold and fearless book, Nicholas Birns contests how literary cultures are read, how they are constituted and what they stand for … In examining the nature of the barriers between public and private utterance, and looking outside the absurdity of the rules of genre, Birns has produced a redemptive analysis that leaves hope for revivifying a world not yet dead." - John Kinsella
