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Analyses the parodic elements of My Career Goes Bung, with a particular focus on the novel as parodying the genre of cheap English serialised formula fiction.
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Female Histories from Australia and Canada as Counter-Discourses to the National
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Connotations , vol. 9 no. 3 1999-2000; (p. 296-315)Responds to Sanjay Sircar's 'My Career Goes Bung : Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia', using the article as a starting point for an analysis of how five Australian and Canadian novels engage with the national discourse(s) of their countries of origin.
Also discusses Canadian novelists Margaret Atwood and Daphne Marlatt.
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Female Histories from Australia and Canada as Counter-Discourses to the National
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Connotations , vol. 9 no. 3 1999-2000; (p. 296-315)Responds to Sanjay Sircar's 'My Career Goes Bung : Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia', using the article as a starting point for an analysis of how five Australian and Canadian novels engage with the national discourse(s) of their countries of origin.
Also discusses Canadian novelists Margaret Atwood and Daphne Marlatt.
- My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel