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Subverting the Empire : Exploration in the Fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Carey single work   criticism  
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"This article examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country." (p.13)

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y separately published work icon Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction Paul Genoni , Altona Toowoomba : Common Ground Publishing Association for the Study of Australian Literature , 2004 Z1134370 2004 multi chapter work criticism 'Subverting the Empire traces the influences of Australian colonial exploration on writers of contemporary Australian fiction. Exploration journals serve as points of origin for social myths that continue to exercise the national imagination. This book examines these myths through a reading of the work of Thea Astley, Gerald Murnane and Rodney Hall' (back cover).
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13-21; notes 151-152 Subverting the Empire : Exploration in the Fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Careysmall AustLit logo Journal of Australian Studies
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