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Gerald Murnane - Another World in This One by Anthony Uhlmann (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Anot ...Show more
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Eleanor 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 within settler culture. Yet Dark's contributi ...Show more
Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend - Australian Women's War Fictions by Donna Coates
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
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 voic ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
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 controv ...Show more
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