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'Modern Australian Criticism and Theory brings together a selection of contemporary essays on Australian literature and cultural studies written by leading Australian critics and theorists...
The essays selected for this volume reflect upon the main critical and theoretical influences on the study of Australian literature and culture since the 1980s...' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
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In Chinese and English languages
Contents
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Is Australian Literature Post-Colonial?,
single work
criticism
The author demonstrates 'just a few ways in which Australian literary culture may be read in a post-colonial way, by addressing three critical post-colonial discourses: place, with its attendant principles of boundaries, mapping and naming; language; and history.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
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Post Colonialism and Literary Criticism in Australia,
single work
criticism
'In this essay I want to lay out the context for the development of the study of post-colonial literatures and post-colonial reading strategies, then move on to consider in a little more detail some significant aspects of the field in its early form. I will conclude by examining the effects of post-colonial criticism on ways of reading the work of three Australian writers: Judith Wright, Randolph Stow, and Patrick White' (95).Note: Published under the title: Post-Colonialism and Literary Criticism in Australia
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Settler Post-Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture,
single work
criticism
'This essay begins by mapping the place of settler postcolonialism in postcolonial studies, and its relevance to the Australian context. It then moves to demonstrate the applicability of settler postcolonial reading practices for Australian texts and contexts through two paradigmatic tropes: land and textuality.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes Bibliographical references
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Landscape and Australian Fiction,
single work
criticism
'Susan Martin's essay... considers the central role played in Australian literature and its criticism by ideas about the land and environment, from colonial images of conquering or domesticating the land, to the heroic or anti-heroic ideas of nation-forming bush, to the increasing sense of an Aboriginal land, to new postcolonial forms of spatial history and contemporary eco-criticism.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Henry Kendall's 'Aboriginal Man' : Autochthony and Extinction in the Settler Colony,
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criticism
'McCann shows how the poet Henry Kendall's dreams of establishing an Australian landscape are haunted at every turn by the indigenous presence...' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Out of England : Literary Subjectivity in the Australian Colonies, 1788-1867,
single work
criticism
'...During traces the formation and transformation of 'modern literary subjectivity' in the distinctive conditions of nineteenth century Australia.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Critics, Writers, Intellectuals : Australian Literature and Its Criticism,
single work
criticism
David Carter 'describes the background to [the] "theoretical turn" in Australian literary studies: the struggle to establish Australian literature in the university: the institutionalisation of Australian literary studies... the emergence of counter currents: and the belated impact of post—structuralist theories—not least via the rapid impact of cultural studies since the early 1980s.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Feminism and Australian Literature,
single work
criticism
'Susan Sheridan traces the influence and varieties of feminism and feminist critique in Australia, arguably the major influence in transforming Australian literary studies in the 1980s and 1990s.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Australian Cultural Studies : Theory, Story, History,
single work
criticism
John Frow attempts 'to reconstruct the early days—roughly the decade of the 1980s—of cultural studies in Australia, in a way that relies heavily on anecdote and reminiscence. ' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
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Australian Literature and the Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation,
single work
criticism
'Robert Dixon focuses on the present as a key moment of transformation in Australian literary and cultural as it moves from its founding 'nationalist' moment into a transnational framing of key issues.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
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Modern Reading History and Literary History: Australian Perspectives,
single work
criticism
Tim Dolin argues that 'a literary history that is sensitive to reading histories can challenge the view that settler colonial readers were docile front-line agents in long-distance political domination.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)Note: Includes bibliographical references
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The Historiography of Reading in Australia,
single work
criticism
Patrick Buckridge explores the historiography of reading in Australia and presents a discussion of why, what and how Australians read.Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Recent Australian Crime Fiction and Genre Publishing,
single work
criticism
(p. 153-164)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Australian Biography and Autobiography,
single work
criticism
Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony.Note: Includes bibliographical references
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What The Cassowary Does Not Need to Know: An Essary in Fictocriticism,
single work
criticism
(p. 180-189)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Critical Whiteness Studies and Australian Indigenous Literature,
single work
criticism
(p. 190-205)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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A Reader Becomes What She Has Read: Reading, Writing, Whiteness,
single work
criticism
(p. 206-217)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Complicity, Critique and Methodology: Australian Con/texts,
single work
criticism
(p. 218-228)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Noongar Modernity and Jack Davis's The Dreamers,
single work
criticism
(p. 229-242)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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Work in Progress : Multicultural Writing in Australia,
single work
criticism
(p. 243-257)
Note: Includes bibliographical references
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- Australian literary criticism
- Australia
- Australian literature and writers
- Aboriginal literature & writers
- Postcolonialism
- Aboriginal Australians
- Australian literary history
- Multiculturalism
- Cultural & national identity
- Aboriginal Australians - Literary portrayal
- Critical theories & approaches
- Reading process
- Readers
- Chinese Australian writing
- Aboriginal assimilation (Government policy)