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Author: Selina Samuels
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives 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.
Author: Selina Samuels
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays 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.
Author: Peter Pierce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-17
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 052188165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws 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: Selina Samuels
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe starting date for this volume is central to Australia's self-definition; it is the year of the most famous battle in Australian military history - Gallipoli, during World War I. It marked the first time that Australians fought as a nation rather than part of the British military, and the Gallipoli campaign has come to signify a legendary image of the Australian character - one who is brave in the face of danger, stoic in adversity, and loyal to ones comrades.
Author: David Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 826
ISBN-13: 1009093207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Faye H. Christenberry
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-11-19
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0810877457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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Publisher: D. W. Thorpe
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1459603060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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...
Author: Joanna Monie
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 1483188221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Policy and Its Administration contains an index of literature that defines the output created by social scientists for the welfare of human beings. This literary survey originates out of the need to present a comprehensive bibliographic work. The book covers areas that encompass the concept social policy. Topics such as the standards in social welfare services are also the focus of the book. The book traces the beginning of social science and the major proponents of the subject. The improvements made on the field are also enumerated and the countries that contributed to the progress of society are named in the book. Social revolutions such as the liberation of women and the abolishment of servitude as well as the transition from colonial status to political independence are discussed in the book. The text will be a useful tool for sociologists, historians, students, and researchers in the field of political science.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781857431797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
