| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Where is analysis in this age of banal tweets and narcissistic comments? Stephen Knight turns his modernly analytical and historically aware mind to current attitudes and actions in need of serious examination. What is the impact of the bush myth on the national consciousness of Australian fiction? What of the modern shift in writing about Indigenous issues, from white writers to First Peoples? What has suddenly happened to Australian crime fiction?Other essays look at unravelling travelling, the tiny machines that obsess us, then those bizarrely flourishing modern identity-enhancers--tattoos and personalised number plates--and of course, the state of the contemporary university. Here is 21st century national complexity, its origins and its international connections, explored in a socially referential and almost always serious way. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Australian.
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National characteristics, Australian. |
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Popular culture -- Australia -- History -- 21st century.
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Popular culture. |
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Australia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Australian essays.
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Australian essays. |
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Australian literature.
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Australian literature. |
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Australia -- History -- 21st century.
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 2001-
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
2001- |
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Australians.
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Australians. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 2000 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Knight, Stephen. University is closed for open day. Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2019] 9780522874679 (OCoLC)1127058637 |
| ISBN |
9780522874686 (electronic book) |
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0522874681 (electronic book) |
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9780522874679 |
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0522874673 |
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