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Telling stories : Australian life and literature, 1935-2012 /
Explores the interaction between literary culture & the public sphere in Australia in a series of informative, witty, intelligent & thought-provoking essays. Unearths the fascinating & changing role that literature has played in Australias sporting, political, civic & cultural life....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Clayton, Vic. :
Monash University Pub.,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Australian literary studies.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1935
- Literary possibilities of flight: Bill Taylor's Pacific Flight
- 1936
- From Texas to Tamsworth via New Zealand: Tex Morton sings an Australian song
- 1936
- Portals to the New World: H.P. Lovecraft ventures to the Great Sandy Desert
- 1937
- This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped: Rex Ingamells kicks off hte Jindyworobaks
- 1938
- The most literary yet: Man magazine
- 1939
- Bloodlines: Aileen Palmer's poetry of war and peace
- 1939
- Ringing out: Five Bells and its feedback loops 1940
- Style, modernity and popular magazines: Writing Pacific travel
- 1940
- Unfounded attack on Dad and Dave comedies: Dad Rudd, M.P.
- 1941
- Rowing on the radio: The Argonauts Club
- 1942
- A fascinating kaleidoscope: Florence James and Dymphna Cusack's Come in Spinner
- 1943
- Invisible, unacknowledged, but ubiquitous: Nan McDonald joins Angus & Robertson
- 1943
- American servicemen find Ernestine Hill in their kitbags: The Great Australian Loneliness
- 1944
- Politics and policing: Post-war Reconstruction in Australia 1945
- Canine 1: Bureaucracy 0: The life and almost death of Horrie the Wog-Dog
- 1946
- And who the hell are you?: Dorothy Hewett's Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod
- 1947
- On love, war and literary life: The Newcastle Morning Herald serialises The Thorny Rose
- 1948
- Slumming it: Ruth Park's The Harp in the South
- 1949
- Not suitable for children: Alfred Hitchcock films Helen Simpson's Australia
- 1950
- When the Earth cries out: Telling workers' strugg les
- 1951
- Nuts on wine: Walter James and Australian wine writing 1952
- The all-singing, all-dancing bloke: The after-lives of C.J. Dennis' The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- 1953
- Reading bareback: Mary E. Patchett's Ajax the Warrior
- 1954
- Surfing the yellow wave: Kenneth Mackay sights the first AIF
- 1955
- Uncivil aviation: Biggles down under
- 1956
- Poetry and confessing: Francis Webb, Vincent Buckley and the case of Cardinal Mindszenty
- 1957
- The Catcher in the Rye gets caught in the net: Censorship and the Parliamentary Library
- 1957
- Patrick White and the American middlebrow: Book-of-the-Month Club chooses Voss 1958
- Beating around the bush: The Australian Legend and The Australian Tradition
- 1958
- Coming down to Earth: Norma Hemming turns from SF to romance
- 1958
- Stretching out in all directions: Patrick White and the great Australian emptiness
- 1959
- Loving Europe: Peel Me a Lotus and Australian women writing travel
- 1961
- Conversation, collaboration, assimilation: Nene Gare's The Fringe Dwellers
- 1962
- Making a good nation: E.V. Timms' The Big Country
- ""1962
- Six pack: Volume one of A History of Australia is published ""