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1 1 y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue TEXT Special Issue Website Series Nigel Krauth (editor), Tess Brady , Jen Webb , 2000 Griffith University Deakin University , Z1037643 2000 periodical (63 issues)
1 y separately published work icon Contemporary Australian Novels and Crises of Ecologies David S. Harris , Melbourne : 2017 17217106 2017 single work thesis This thesis argues that literature can cultivate our sensuous attunement to ecological crises and enhance our powers of living amid these crises. These literary potentials are confirmed in studies of novels by Alexis Wright, Janette Turner Hospital and Tim Winton.
1 y separately published work icon Re-mapping Caste and Class Consciousness : Short Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia Amit Sarwal , Burwood : Deakin University , 2013 24470706 2013 single work criticism
1 form y separately published work icon Sisters of the Sun Patrick West , Melbourne : Deakin University , 2012 9290558 2012 single work film/TV

'A film about flows of time and language on the Volcanic Plains of Western Victoria. Directed by Simon Wilmot. Produced by Patrick West & Simon Wilmot. Script by Patrick West.

'The past has its place in the future. Wombeetch Puyuun is teaching Scottish-born settler Isabella Dawson his aboriginal tongue so that her father, James Dawson, can write his book. But how can language preserve the past in a land where time overwhelms words? Meanwhile, contemporary Australians from the Volcanic Plains of Victoria’s Western District meditate over life in a place of sheep, algae, eels, lava and stars. Susan Cole and Janice Austin, descendents of Isabella and Wombeetch’s people united for the first time, reflect on Wombeetch’s friendship with James, and what it means to be ‘the last of your tribe.’' (Production summary)

1 y separately published work icon Citizenship and Globalisation Research Paper Series Burwood : Deakin University , 2010- 24470659 2010 series - publisher criticism
1 y separately published work icon Look Who's Morphing : A Collection of Fictions and an Exegesis Tom Cho , Victoria : 2009 6670877 2009 single work thesis

'This project's creative component is "Look Who's Morphing", a fiction collection that explores the theme of personal identity. The exegesis analyses an issue pertaining to the writer's creative process: what degree of directness was employed in the authorial identity in his creative work and how was this level of directness realised?' (Source: NLA.)

1 1 y separately published work icon Reading In The Victorian Classroom Clare Bradford (lead researcher), St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2007-2009 Z1773387 2007 website bibliography The Reading in the Victorian Classroom dataset was established in 2007. It provides information on the Victorian Readers, a series of school readers produced between 1927 and 1930 for schoolchildren in Victoria and used (with revisions) until the 1950s.
1 y separately published work icon Cross Talk : Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing in Australia and Canada Michael Jacklin , 2004 Z1351079 2004 single work thesis This thesis provides a comparative analysis of collaborative Indigenous life writing texts produced in Australia and Canada. Drawing on the large body of Indigenous life writing texts produced in both countries, the critical and theoretical literature surrounding these texts, and twenty-nine interviews conducted during the course of research with participants in Aboriginal and First Nations collaborative life writing, the author argues that literary criticism needs to take into account the co-operative basis of textual production as well as the constraining factors that shape the outcome of collaborative texts. Further, he argues for the importance of non-Indigenous critics acknowledging the centrality of Indigenous protocols in both the production and reception of collaborative Indigenous life writing. The thesis is based upon the premise that readers and producers of collaborative Indigenous life writing texts can and should talk to each other and that each group can benefit from such cross talk.
1 y separately published work icon Holocaust Literature : An Exploration of Second Generation Publication in Australia Robin Ann Freeman , Melbourne : 2004 Z1306594 2004 single work thesis At the beginning of the 21st century, a confluence of elements has made the genre of second-generation Holocaust writing publishable in a way that would seem unlikely based on its major themes and the risk-averse publishing strategies of the multinational conglomerates that control the Australian publishing industry. This thesis examines the contemporary Australian publishing industry and attempts to explain the popular publication of second-generation Holocaust writers. Case studies include Lily Brett, the earliest and most prolific of the second generation, and Mark Baker, a writer made immediately successful by his mainstream publisher using all the marketing tools at its disposal.
1 y separately published work icon Spiel : A Novel and Animating Objects of Desire : Exegetical Reflections David Sornig , Geelong : 2003 Z1636219 2003 single work thesis A contribution to and exploration of a long tradition in mythology and literature which articulates the human desire to manufacture an artefact that approximates and approaches the status of a living being. The novel contextualises this tradition in a narrative emerging from the post-Communist collapse of totalitarian power in Berlin.
1 y separately published work icon Fundamentalism meets Feminism : Postmodern Confrontation in the Work of Janette Turner Hospital Elizabeth Mavis Nanlohy , 2000 Z1038739 2000 single work thesis Considers the presence and the chronological development of the Judeo-Christian concept of Good and Evil in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital. The thesis sees the early influence of the Pentecostal Church and its ethical and moral directives as crucial to the adult writer's creative work. It establishes how, through the medium of her postmodern novels, she confronts the vulnerability of women, morality in the general community, the notion of difference and the consequences of discrimination.
1 1 y separately published work icon Water's Edge and The Water's Edge Writing Gaylene Perry , 2000 Z1033766 2000 single work thesis "Consists of a novel and an exegesis exploring creative writing and research. ... The exegesis addresses the nature and role of the exegesis in the current PhD thesis requirements for creative writing in Australian universities."--Abstract
1 y separately published work icon Responses to Australian Society and Culture by Greek-Australian Writers Hazel Stahmer , Victoria : 1998 Z1600354 1998 single work thesis Focuses on the themes and preoccupations in Greek-Australian literature that reflect the influence of Australia on the traditional sense of identity of Greek migrants. Predominant concerns connected with identity are those of nostalgic references to the homeland, feelings of alienation and discrimination. These themes are related to what is recognised in life and in literature as "xenitia". Second generation writers reveal an acceptance of belonging to two cultures and having dual identities. -- Libraries Australia
1 y separately published work icon Poetry, Politics and Place: Black and White Perceptions of Modern Australian Poetry 1965 – 1990 Kelly Gardiner , Victoria : 1998 8251991 1998 single work thesis

'This thesis is concerned with the centrality of landscape to the development of modern Australian poetry.

'Landscape has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential themes in the development of post-colonial cultural identities in this country, and specifically in Australian literary traditions.

'This thesis argues, however, that the most influential landscape poetry within those traditions has been concerned not just with landscape as an aesthetic concept, but with the politics of land ownership and/or appropriation, and the ongoing cultural or social implications of land ownership arrangements.

'Further, this paper argues that the ways in which the land has been seen, including our changing understandings of concepts such as "ownership" and "belonging", and the political and economic structures and influences relating to the land, have directly and indirectly affected the poetry produced in this country since colonisation.

'Specifically, in recent decades, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal poets have perceived and described the land in different ways, and these distinct visions can be traced to the relationship that each culture has with the land; the inter-relationships between the cultures; and the structural and psychological links between the poet and the landscape he or she is attempting to understand and describe.

'Landscape poets, therefore, have given voice to some of the most compelling social currents in Australian society, and the work of several contemporary poets has had an important place in the political discourse of the final decades of the twentieth century.' (Author's abstract)

1 1 y separately published work icon A. D. Hope : The Dance of Language A. M. McCulloch , Geelong : Deakin University , 1997 Z1001674 1997 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Making Sense of Humour : Proceedings of the Third Children's Literature Conference, 10 September, 1994 Robin Pope (editor), Burwood : Deakin University , 1995 Z1342174 1995 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon How Do Detectives Make Love? : Themes of the Survival of the Child : Corruption in Relation to Innocence Coral Hull , 1994 Z1035522 1994 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Constructions of the Self : A Study of Contemporary Australian Autobiography Joan Newman , Victoria : 1992 Z1312403 1992 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Verandah Anne Casey-Hardy (editor), Katie Cody (editor), Diane Perrin Kni (editor), Genevieve Fitzgerald (editor), Colleen Cridland (editor), Anne Sanger (editor), Paul Conroy (editor), Susannah Latham (editor), Scott McCaffrey (editor), Sarah Niner (editor), Herbert Schlegel (editor), Cathy Edmonds (editor), Peter Russ (editor), Tracy Barnes (editor), Caz Brown (editor), Louisa Ragas (editor), 1986 Malvern : Victoria College , 1986-1991 Z1012588 1986 periodical (34 issues) Verandah is a literary periodical, begun as a student run publication containing submitted literary and artistic works by new and established writers. Initially this publication began at Victoria College, Toorak campus and is now produced by the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University's Burwood campus. Each year, a new editorial team is chosen from the students studying the Professional Writing Degree
1 y separately published work icon Australian Multicultural Literature Sneja Gunew , Geelong : Deakin University , 1992 Z827111 1992 single work non-fiction bibliography
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