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'The short story in Australia and New Zealand has flourished from the last decade of the nineteenth century onwards, and has been strictly bound to orality - yarns, yarn-spinning (Bennet 5) - from its early days, as the speech cadence of a usually sympathetic storyteller, either involved in the narrative, or simply an eye-witness or a bystander, interacting with listeners / readers, influences its time-scale, rhythm, tempo and structure.
A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)
A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)
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Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories : Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and Sargeson
Subjects:
- Bush Studies 1902 selected work short story
- Australian Short Fiction : A History 2002 multi chapter work criticism
- The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story
- Vance Palmer 1970 single work biography
- Studies in Australian Literary History 1997 selected work criticism biography
- Henry Lawson : Autobiographical and Other Writings 1877-1922 1972 selected work prose short story autobiography correspondence
- Henry Lawson : Short Stories and Sketches, 1888-1922 1972 selected work short story prose
- The Rainbow-Bird and Other Stories 1957 selected work short story
- Women and the Bush : Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition 1988 multi chapter work criticism
- Lawson's Joe Wilson : A Skeleton Novel 1964 single work criticism
- The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 1985 reference criticism biography
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