Australian Short Story
Australian Short Story

Author: Laurie Hergenhan

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0702258008

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Henry Lawson · Barbara Baynton ·Henry Handel Richardson · Katharine Susannah Prichard · Christina Stead ·Gavin Casey ·Vance Palmer · Alan Marshall · Marjorie Barnard ·Judah Waten · John Morrison · Peter Cowan · Hal Porter · Patrick White · Thelma Forshaw ·Dal Stivens · Peter Carey Murray Bail · Frank Moorhouse · T.A.G. Hungerford · Elizabeth Jolley · Michael Wilding · Olga Masters · Beverley Farmer · Fay Zwicky · Barry Hill · Gerald Murnane · Archie Weller · Thea Astley · Helen Garner · Lily Brett · Susan Hampton · Gail Jones In this bestselling collection the Australian short story is represented from its Bulletin beginnings to its vigorous revival in the late twentieth century.

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

Author: Peter Pierce

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 052188165X

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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.

Resisting Fiction
Resisting Fiction

Author: Catherine Pratt

Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Henry Handel Richardson is one of Australia's most distinguished writers. This penetrating, original study discusses her novels in relation to their historical, cultural and intellectual context, and is the first full-length critical work to offer a sustained feminist interpretation of her work.

Reference Guide to Short Fiction
Reference Guide to Short Fiction

Author: Thomas Riggs

Publisher: Saint James Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1258

ISBN-13:

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Reference Guide to Short Fiction provides study and commentary on the most instrumental writers of short fiction through the 20th century. International in scope, this single scholarly volume includes 779 entries on 377 authors and 402 short stories.

Creative Lives
Creative Lives

Author: Penelope Hanley

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0642276560

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Henry Lawson - Miles Franklin - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Eleanor Dark - Christina Stead - Kylie Tennant - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - Mem Fox.

Reference Guide to Short Fiction
Reference Guide to Short Fiction

Author: Noelle Watson

Publisher: Saint James Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 1096

ISBN-13:

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Devoted to those practitioners of the art of short fiction, this new 2nd edition offers thorough coverage of approximately 375 authors and 400 of their works. In a single volume, Reference Guide to Short Fiction features often-studied authors from around the world and throughout history, all selected for inclusion by a board of experts in the field. Reference Guide to Short Fiction is divided into two sections for easy study. The first section profiles the authors and offers personal and career details, as well as complete bibliographical information. A signed essay helps readers understand more about the author. These authors are covered: -- Sandra Cisneros -- Nikolai Gogol -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Salman Rushdie -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Edith Somerville -- Eudora Welty -- And others Section two helps readers gain deeper understanding of the authors and the genre with critical essays discussing 400 important works, including: -- "The Hitchiking Game", Milan Kundera -- "The Swimmer", John Cheever -- "The Dead", James Joyce -- "A Hunger Artist", Franz Kafka -- "How I Met My Husband", Alice Munro -- "Kew Gardens", Virginia Woolf This one-stop guide also provides easy access to works through the title index.