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Description

1 online resource.

Series

Sydney studies in Australian literature

Sydney studies in Australian literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice - one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it.

Subject

Exiles' writings -- History and criticism.

Expatriate authors -- Australia.

Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Australian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Authors, Australian.

Exiles' writings.

Expatriate authors.

Australia.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian.

Literature and literary studies.

Literature: history and criticism.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Form:

Original 9781743324363 1743324367 (OCoLC)917890065

ISBN

9781743324783 (electronic bk.)

1743324782 (electronic bk.)

9781743324370

1743324375

9781743324387

1743324383

9781743324363

1743324367