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'Where No Knight in Armour Has Ever Trod' : The Arthurianism of Jessica Anderson's Heroines
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2006
'Where No Knight in Armour Has Ever Trod' : The Arthurianism of Jessica Anderson's Heroines
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Louise D'Arcens examines the differences in the way two heroines from novels by Jessica Anderson read Arthurian legends. She suggests that 'the transition between the two heroines' medievalisms reflects the changing significance of the Middle Ages as an imaginative prism through which Australian experience has been refracted. The development they embody [...] is an index of Australia's transition from colonial dependency at the beginning of the twentieth century to cultural autonomy and sovereignty a the century's end' (62-63).
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'Where No Knight in Armour Has Ever Trod' : The Arthurianism of Jessica Anderson's Heroines
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- Tirra Lirra by the River 1978 single work novel
- One of the Wattle Birds 1994 single work novel
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