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Subversion and Survival: Australian Children's Novels in Postmodernity
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 6 no. 2 1996; (p. 21-30) Kneale examines three Australian novels, To the Dark Tower (Victor Kelleher), The Best Thing (Margo Lanagan) and Ariel, Ted and the Secret of Life, and argues that they all 'contain strands of subversion consistent with contemporary critical and literary theories and the spirit of postmodernist discourse' (21). Drawing attention to the significance of the physical environment in Australian narratives, he claims that all three texts venture 'beyond the issues of survival against a challenging physical terrain or a specifically Australian cultural terrain to the question of survival against an uncertain conceptual terrain' (29). He concludes that while these narratives are not concerned with 'constructing a distinctively Australian setting they do not completely abandon the traditional Australian motif of survival' (29). -
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1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 53-54)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 1 1993; (p. 16)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 8 no. 2 1993; (p. 32)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 37 no. 1 1993; (p. 28)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 37 no. 1 1993; (p. 28)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 8 no. 2 1993; (p. 32)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 53-54)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 1 1993; (p. 16)
— Review of To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel -
Forecasts
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 72 no. 1029 1992; (p. 29-31)
— Review of Dresses of Red and Gold 1992 single work novel ; Night Music 1992 single work novel ; Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja 1990 selected work children's fiction ; To the Dark Tower 1992 single work novel ; Looking for Alibrandi 1992 single work novel ; Lerakim Watched 1992 single work children's fiction -
Pleasures of a Perilous Career
1992
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 7 November 1992; (p. 10) -
Subversion and Survival: Australian Children's Novels in Postmodernity
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 6 no. 2 1996; (p. 21-30) Kneale examines three Australian novels, To the Dark Tower (Victor Kelleher), The Best Thing (Margo Lanagan) and Ariel, Ted and the Secret of Life, and argues that they all 'contain strands of subversion consistent with contemporary critical and literary theories and the spirit of postmodernist discourse' (21). Drawing attention to the significance of the physical environment in Australian narratives, he claims that all three texts venture 'beyond the issues of survival against a challenging physical terrain or a specifically Australian cultural terrain to the question of survival against an uncertain conceptual terrain' (29). He concludes that while these narratives are not concerned with 'constructing a distinctively Australian setting they do not completely abandon the traditional Australian motif of survival' (29).
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