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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 The Land as Protagonist with Special Reference to Exploration
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Rutherford traces representations of the Australian landscape, from convict perceptions of Australia as Hell or Purgatory to explorers' declarations that Australia was a land 'unfit for poetry.' The examples build towards the conclusion that in every encounter, 'the continent always triumphs' (17).

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    y separately published work icon A Sense of Place : Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures Britta Olinder (editor), Goteborg : The English Department, Gothenburg University , 1984 Z1363928 1984 anthology criticism This is a collection of papers presented at the Gothenburg University Congress of Commonwealth Language and Literature, held in September 1982. Goteborg : The English Department, Gothenburg University , 1984 pg. 9-18
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