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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature
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* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Place, Region and Community: An Introduction, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 11-23)
Provincial or Metropolitan?, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 25-37)
Patriot and Expatriate: Les A. Murray and Peter Porter, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 38-51)
Literature and Journalism: The Case of Robert Drewe Literature and Journalism : The Fiction of Robert Drewe, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 52-64)
Versions of `The West' in North America and Australia, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 65-74)
Myths of Innocence and Experience, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 75-87)
Wartime Culture in Australia's West, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 88-96)
The Hills are Alive, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 97-112)
Peter Cowan's Landscapes of Silence, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 113-121)
Heroic Masks, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 122-131)
Ageing and the Question of `Home' - Olga Masters and Elizabeth Jolley, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 132-145)
Contexts of Possibility - George Eliot and Catherine Spence, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism biography
Reflecting on the different environments in which the two writers lived and wrote, and the effect this had on their literary development, Bennett asks what difference it would have made to their writings if Spence had continued to live in Scotland, or Eliot had emigrated to the 'young' countries.
(p. 146-157)
An Ecological Vision : Judith Wright, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism biography (p. 158-175)
Re-Viewing Asia, Bruce Bennett , single work prose (p. 176-185)
Literary Constructions of the Near North, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 186-210)
Agents of `The New' : Australian Literary Magazines, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 211-223)
The Manufacture of National Literary Histories, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 223-234)

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Works about this Work

Untitled Aritha van Herk , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Ariel , April vol. 24 no. 2 1993; (p. 138-140)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Untitled Ulla Joussen , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Span , October no. 36 1993; (p. 689-691)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Untitled John Beston , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Choice , January 1992; (p. 739)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
The Value of the Local Douglas Barbour , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , Spring vol. 32 no. 1 1992; (p. 120-122)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
The Continuing Struggles of History John McLaren , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 128 1992; (p. 85-87)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Outstanding Study of One of Our Best Poets Ralph Elliott , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 October 1991; (p. C8)

— Review of Spirit in Exile : Peter Porter and His Poetry Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work criticism biography ; An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Forecasts Meredith Rose , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , July vol. 71 no. 1017 1991; (p. 22)

— Review of Patrick White : A Tribute 1991 anthology criticism biography poetry ; An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Compass Points in Too Many Directions A. P. Riemer , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 136 1991; (p. 18-20)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Exploring the Ways of the Cultural West Duncan Graham , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 October 1991; (p. 7)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography
Critics Consider Lands, Places, and Their Ironies Nicholas Birns , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 6 no. 1 1992; (p. 83-84)

— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature Bruce Bennett , 1991 selected work prose criticism biography ; Norman Lindsay on Art, Life and Literature Norman Lindsay , 1990 selected work short story prose correspondence review criticism ; Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 Alan Corkhill , 1990 single work criticism
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