Literary activists : writer-intellectuals and Australian public life /

"Judith Wright fought to save the Great Barrier Reef and campaigned for a Treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Patrick White led anti-nuclear peace marches and boycotted the Bicentenary. Helen Garner and Les Murray took a stand against political correctness. What drives our most outstanding lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rooney, Brigid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2009.
Temas:
Australian literature > Study and teaching.
Popular culture and literature > Australia.
Littérature australienne > Étude et enseignement.
Culture populaire et littérature > Australie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Australian literature > Study and teaching
Intellectual life
Popular culture and literature
Australia > Intellectual life.
Australie > Vie intellectuelle.
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Judith Wright fought to save the Great Barrier Reef and campaigned for a Treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Patrick White led anti-nuclear peace marches and boycotted the Bicentenary. Helen Garner and Les Murray took a stand against political correctness. What drives our most outstanding literary figures to become activists and public intellectuals? Are they, in Shelley's famous phrase, our 'unacknowledged legislators'? How have their public interventions provoked us, and how have we responded? Can writers really change the world? Literary Activists examines these questions through the li.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxi, 260 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-250) and index.
ISBN:9780702241406
0702241407

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