Australian category: 153 books
Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
Australian Psychoses
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account...
by Jean-François Vernay
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal...
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct,...
National Fictions
Literature, film and the construction of Australian narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture - as narratives with similar structures, functions, forms and meanings. It covers a wide range of texts, offering both close analysis...
‘The Right Thing to Read’
A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores...
by Jason Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
ESL Conversation Dialogues Scripts 21-30 contains dialogues featuring Australian English expressions, with a number of common expressions thrown in to challenge the student. While intermediate level and above is recommended, these dialogues can also be used to challenge beginners into improving their...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun...
The Australian Face
Essays from the Sydney Review of Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Sydney Review of Books is Australia’s leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion, The Australian Face collects some of the best essays published in...
Rethinking the Victim
Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on...
Australian Wine Vintages 2019, 36th Edition
Essays on Carpentaria
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Australian Wine Vintages is the longest running wine guide in Australia. First published in 1979, it has been much imitated but never beaten. This pioneering work has made fine Australian Wine accessible to generations of drinkers through the simple and clear layout. It states what is good, when to...
by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation....
The First Spoken Language
The language our ancestors brought out of Africa, and what happened to it
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Our ancestors walked out of Africa 85,000 years ago. They lived for a time in the Garden of Eden, now under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and arrived in Australia via South India 20,000 years later. Indigenous people from Central Australia still speak the same language as their ancestors...
The Burning Library
Our Great Novelists Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A perfect introduction to Australian literature, The Burning Library explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.
Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works...
by Susan Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books. The traditional view of this postwar period is of successful male writers, with women still confined to the domestic...