Contemporary Australian literature : a world not yet dead / Nicholas Birns
- Bib ID:
- 6897273
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Birns, Nicholas, author
- Description:
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- University of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
- x, 270 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781743324363 (paperback)
- 1743324367
- Series:
- Sydney studies in Australian literature.
- Summary:
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"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. Today, Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. 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 a new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many." --Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Exiles' writings -- History and criticism
- Expatriate authors -- Australia
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Australian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Australian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Literature and stories - Authors
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Literature and stories - Criticism and analysis
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Australia
- Australian
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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