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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Australian Literature"”.
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"Men made out of words": reading men writing masculinities in Australian literature
This study of some Australian literary texts covers Rod Jones ("Julia Paradise"), David Brooks ("The book of Sei"), Robert Drewe ("A cry in the jungle bar"), George Johnston ("My brother Jack") and Patrick White ("The Twyborn affair")
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Storytellers, Dreamers, Rebels:
… to Carey's works. It explains the climate of Australian literature production in the 1970s in which Carey emerges as an author and that is relevant for his writing up to his latest works Amnesia and a Long Way from Home. It also relates a few biographical notes that are relevant for many of …
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The Sixties - the lived experience
… this period is dealt with extensively in the Australian literary canon but I discovered in my initial literary search that, while some fiction made oblique references to the period and there were some literary works by Vietnam veterans, very few novels or memoirs told the story of the Sixties …
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And the Word was Song: a novel
The novel manuscript And the Word was Song is a work in five parts, structurally (and very loosely) mirroring the first five books of The Old Testament. It is the story of Lily May, a young woman who travels around the world trying to find meaning in her life after her prostitute, heroin-addicted …
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Dying in the margins : understanding the needs and capacities of a lower socioeconomic population for end of life care
… provided a unique and novel contribution to the literature. Specifically, it has demonstrated the needs and capacities for a lower socioeconomic group not previously described in the Australian literature, and in particular, it has advanced conceptual and theoretical issues in investigating …
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The behaviour of style anomalies on the Australian Stock Exchange : a univariate and multivariate analysis
… 207 firm-specific attributes is created for all Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) All Ordinaries stocks listed on 1 September 2004. The data are adjusted for both thin trading and look-ahead bias. The study largely follows the tests of van Rensburg and Robertson (2003) who adopt the …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… debate has also stood at the heart of Australian literary history and Australian history itself, coming to a head during the ‘history’– and ‘culture wars’ declared by then-Prime Minister John Howard shortly after his election in 1996. These wars coincided with the so-called ‘memoir …
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National Mythology and Colonial Trauma in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
In 1991 the Australian government instigated a process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous people. This process aimed at laying the foundations of a postcolonial nation through the establishment of the truth about the past, the acknowledgment of the injustices inflicted on the …
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The Program Goes South: Australian Prose and the University, 1970-2020
… process of institutionalization has reshaped Australian literary production in ways so diverse that an initial study of this period can only begin to grasp them. By mapping out half a century of Australian literary activity in and around the creative writing classroom, it contradicts …
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As the owl discreet: Essay towards a conversation and Carly's Dance a novel
This thesis comprises a novel entitled Carly's Dance and an essay entitled As the Owl Discreet. Although separate works, a line runs through them that might be described as an urge to connect; each work, although self-contained, is concerned with the co-existence of opposites, or more precisely, …
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The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner
This thesis offers a case study in adapting Australian literary biography to the theatre, specifically in the form of a one woman show or monologue performance. The thesis consists of a novel play script, together with exegetical writing which outlines the source materials used and the process and …
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Intangible gifts : a novel with accompanying exegesis ’Japan, the love story and myself’
The story is set in a small Australian city where there are strong undercurrents of religious and racial discrimination. Rosanna, the protagonist, narrates her life through fragments of memory, drawing upon her experience as a child and young woman in Australia and Japan. Her understanding of home …