Author : Elizabeth Webby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2000-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521658430
An indispensable reference for the study of Australian literature.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131651448X
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009099507
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.
Author : Elizabeth Webby
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Ann Vickery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100947023X
This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.
Author : Peter Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052188165X
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 : Belinda Wheeler
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571135219
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 : Ben Etherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471374
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827278
Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108482090
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.
