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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Place, Region and Community: An Introduction, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 11-23)
Provincial or Metropolitan?, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 25-37)
Patriot and Expatriate: Les A. Murray and Peter Porter, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 38-51)
Literature and Journalism: The Case of Robert Drewe Literature and Journalism : The Fiction of Robert Drewe, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 52-64)
Versions of `The West' in North America and Australia, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 65-74)
Myths of Innocence and Experience, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 75-87)
Wartime Culture in Australia's West, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 88-96)
The Hills are Alive, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 97-112)
Peter Cowan's Landscapes of Silence, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 113-121)
Heroic Masks, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 122-131)
Ageing and the Question of `Home' - Olga Masters and Elizabeth Jolley, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 132-145)
Contexts of Possibility - George Eliot and Catherine Spence, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism biography
Reflecting on the different environments in which the two writers lived and wrote, and the effect this had on their literary development, Bennett asks what difference it would have made to their writings if Spence had continued to live in Scotland, or Eliot had emigrated to the 'young' countries.
 (p. 146-157)
An Ecological Vision : Judith Wright, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism biography (p. 158-175)
Re-Viewing Asia, Bruce Bennett , single work prose (p. 176-185)
Literary Constructions of the Near North, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 186-210)
Agents of `The New' : Australian Literary Magazines, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 211-223)
The Manufacture of National Literary Histories, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 223-234)
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