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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Reconciling the Accounts : Jack Davis, Judith Wright, A. D. Hope
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The author re-considers the work of three writers who 'represent distinct intellectual, artistic and socio-political traditions which at certain points seem to clash and conflict. Each has a distinctive literary voice and presence. All three have made major contributions to Australian literary culture from different parts of the country.'

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    y separately published work icon Journal of the Department of English vol. 32 no. 1-2 2005 Z1385257 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 52-70
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Reconciliations Ágnes Tóth (editor), Bernard Hickey (editor), Richard Nile (editor), Perth : API Network , 2005 Z1401235 2005 anthology criticism Perth : API Network , 2005 pg. 133-149
    Note: Slight variation in title: Reconciling the Accounts : Three Writers - Jack Davis, Judith Wright, A D Hope
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    y separately published work icon Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood Bruce Bennett , Perth : Network , 2006 Z1283394 2006 selected work criticism essay autobiography 'With a population base of some 20 million people in the early years of the twenty-first century, Australia is widely recognised as ‘punching above its weight’ in the field of international literature in English. When questions of literary merit are raised, Patrick White’s Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 is often cited together with David Malouf’s Impac award, Thomas Keneally’s and Peter Carey’s Booker prizes, Kate Grenville’s Orange prize and the Queens’s gold medal for poetry to Judith Wright, Les Murray and Peter Porter. Although some of these authors are discussed in the present book, readers will also encounter a variety of other Australian writers, living and dead, from colonial to post-colonial times, including :Louis Becke, Jack Davis, Yasmine Gooneratne, Ee Tiang Hong, Dorothy Hewitt, A D Hope, Clive James, Oodgeroo, John Boyle O’Reilly and Tim Winton. This heterogeneous group includes Indigenous Australians, immigrants, expatriates, long and short term residents and an Irish political prisoner. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagement with themes of alienation and belonging in a changing Australia.'

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         Perth : Network , 2006     pg. 243-258; notes 280-282
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243-258; notes 280-282 Reconciling the Accounts : Jack Davis, Judith Wright, A. D. Hopesmall AustLit logo
52-70 Reconciling the Accounts : Jack Davis, Judith Wright, A. D. Hopesmall AustLit logo Journal of the Department of English
133-149 Reconciling the Accounts : Jack Davis, Judith Wright, A. D. Hopesmall AustLit logo
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