Little Eva at Moonlight Creek, and Other Aboriginal Song Poems

Little Eva at Moonlight Creek, and Other Aboriginal Song Poems

Author: Martin Duwell

Publisher: UQP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780702226069

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Parallel text Yanyuwa songs depicting particular events such as the 1942 crash of Little Eva B-24 bomber, Ngurlu songs from Broome, Wangkangurru songs with mixed themes and Yolngu songs about birds from Wora and Liyagawumirr clans.


Teaching Aboriginal Studies

Teaching Aboriginal Studies

Author: Rhonda Craven

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 1000247627

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Teaching Aboriginal Studies has been a practical guide for classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools, as well as student teachers, across Australia. Chapters on Aboriginal history and culture, stereotypes and racism, government policies and reconciliation provide essential knowledge for integrating Aboriginal history and culture, issues and perspectives across the curriculum. This second edition of Teaching Aboriginal Studies encompasses developments over the past decade in Aboriginal affairs, Aboriginal education and research. It features a wide range of valuable teaching sources including poetry, images, oral histories, media, and government reports. There are also strategies for teaching Aboriginal Studies in different contexts and the latest research findings. The text is lavishly illustrated with photographs, posters, paintings, prints, ads and cartoons. Teaching Aboriginal Studies is the product of consultation and collaboration across Australia. Remarkable educators and achievers, both Aboriginal and other Australians, tell what teachers need to know and do to help Aboriginal students reach their potential, educate all students about Aboriginal Australia and make this country all that we can be. 'The importance of this book cannot be overestimated. We have been insisting for years that pre-service teachers be required to learn about Aboriginal history, culture and identity, and that it be regarded as integral to qualifying for their education degrees.' Lionel Bamblett, General Manager, Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc.


What is Poetry?

What is Poetry?

Author: Nigel Fabb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1107001854

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"Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--


Paper Empires

Paper Empires

Author: Craig Munro

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 1458782689

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This new volume in UQP's History of the Book in Australia series explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day. In the immediate postwar era, most books were imported into a colonial market dominated by British publishers. Paper Empires traces this fascinating and volatile half-century, using wide-ranging resea...


The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

Author: R.M.W. Dixon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-10-07

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 0199270678

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R. M. W. Dixon, author of acclaimed grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages and Fijian, here describes the hauntingly complex structure of Jarawara, spoken by just 170 Indians. Professor Dixon shared their daily lives, deep in the Amazonian jungle, during seven field trips. He explains how their unusual language reflects their environment and their mental attitudes: for example, when someone describes something that has happened the grammar obliges that person to state whether or not he or she saw it happen. His account brings to life the culture of this tribe of slash-and-burn agriculturalists.


A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

Author: Neil Roberts

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 0470998660

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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.


Savage Wilderness

Savage Wilderness

Author: Barry Ralph

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780702234439

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On 2 December 1942, the B-24 Liberator, Little Eva, returning from a mission over New Guinea, was thrown off course by a violent storm. Running out of fuel and with no fix on their position, the American crew had no option but to bail out. So began one of the longest and most arduous searches ever mounted in the Australian outback.


Australian Languages

Australian Languages

Author: R. M. W. Dixon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-14

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 0521473780

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Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.


Global Indigeneities and the Environment

Global Indigeneities and the Environment

Author: Karen L. Thornber

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 3038422401

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Global Indigeneities and the Environment" that was published in Humanities


The Unmasking of English Dictionaries

The Unmasking of English Dictionaries

Author: R. M. W. Dixon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1108383939

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When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function and the circumstances under which it should be used in preference to words of similar meaning. Standard dictionaries do not address such matters, treating each word in isolation. R. M. W. Dixon puts forward a new approach to lexicography that involves grouping words into 'semantic sets', to describe what can and cannot be said, and providing explanations for this. He provides a critical survey of the evolution of English lexicography from the earliest times, showing how Samuel Johnson's classic treatment has been amended in only minor ways. Written in an easy and accessible style, the book focuses on the rampant plagiarism between lexicographers, on ways of comparing meanings of words, and on the need to link lexicon with grammar. Dixon tells an engrossing story that puts forward a vision for the future.