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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Literary Eco-Consciousness : Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism
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This paper historicises and clarifies major differences between Natural History Writing, and Nature Writing, through examples from early Tasmanian writing thus demonstrating the existence of an early and active literary ecoconsciousness. The paper then moves from a consideration of the restrictions of the belle lettristic (or essay) form, to ecowriting in prose fiction. ... James McQueen's Hook's Mountain (1982) and Charlotte I. Dick's Huon Belle (1930) will be examined from two ecocritical perspectives, deep ecology and ecofeminism' (362).

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    y separately published work icon Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader Amit Sarwal (editor), Reema Sarwal (editor), New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009 Z1560703 2009 anthology criticism

    This literary reader on Australian studies for India not only investigates this central question by exploring many other facets of Australian literature especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, it explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography. explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literture, horror, crime fiction, queer writing and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness" (Source: Backcover).

    New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009
    pg. 362-370
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