| Description |
1 online resource (145 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
About the author; Title page; Imprint; Contents; Inserts; Teaser; Sneak Preview; Trailer; Prologue; CHAPTER 1-The Colonial Period: Exploration, Confrontation and Description (1831-1874); CHAPTER 2-'A literature born of the land': The Emergence of a National Consciousness (1875-1900); CHAPTER 3-The Ebb and Flow of History: Detachment and Engagement (1901-1950); CHAPTER 4-Exploited and Manipulated Reality (1951-1965); CHAPTER 5-Literature of Minorities in a Cosmopolitan Era (1966-1980); CHAPTER 6-Postmodernism and New Tendencies (1981 onwards); Epilogue; SPECIAL FEATURE-Documentaries. |
| Note |
SPECIAL FEATURE-BonusWakefield Press. |
| Summary |
Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... This book offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature. |
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Novelists, Australian.
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Novelists, Australian. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vernay, Jean-François. A Brief Take on the Australian Novel. Mile End : Wakefield Press, ©2016 9781743054048 |
| ISBN |
9781743054437 (electronic book) |
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1743054432 (electronic book) |
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9781743054444 (electronic book) |
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1743054440 (electronic book) |
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