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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2006
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780511998911
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521651220
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.

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‘… the revolutionary ways in which Australian literary critics and writers have responded to the 'arrival' of feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and queer theory have created an exciting, complex and confident field of criticism - one that is given vibrant expression in The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature.’

Mary Ellen Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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