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'In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companionemerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.'
Source : publisher's blurb
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Dedication :
'For Harry and Sam, my budding young Australian readers.'
Contents
- Introduction : Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility, single work criticism
- Expressing a New Civilisation : Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890s, single work criticism
- The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, single work criticism
- The Metropolis or the Bush?, single work criticism
- The Weeping Kangaroo, single work criticism
- The Reflective Moment : Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia, single work criticism
- Among the Autumn Authors : Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines, single work criticism
- ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’ : Dangerous Books in Australia, single work criticism
- ‘Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels’ : Modern Theatre and Patrick White’s Sensuous Dramaturgy, single work criticism
- ‘Are You With Me?’ : Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s, single work criticism
- Around 1988 : Australian Literature, History and the Bicentenary, single work criticism
- Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction, single work criticism
- Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism : Cognitive Australian Literary Studies, single work criticism
- Literary Criticism in Australia, single work criticism
- Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows : Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia, single work criticism
- Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere, single work criticism
- Literary Media Entertainment : Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere, single work criticism
- Australian Literature in the University, single work criticism
- An Australian Ethics of Reading?, single work criticism
- News from Australia : Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism, single work criticism