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Seven Poor Men of Sydney

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522867677
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Seven Poor Men of Sydney written by Christina Stead and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Poor Men of Sydney is a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercity slums, the various characters seek to resolve their individual spiritual dilemmas; through politics, religion and philosophy. Their struggles, their pain and their frustrations are portrayed with consummate skill in this memorable evocation of a city and an era.

Christina Stead

Author : Diana Brydon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389206903
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Christina Stead written by Diana Brydon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stead's novels have gained growing readership and critical attention in recent years. This feminist reading of the life and work of Christina Stead focuses on her characters and themes that question established assumptions about gender and class relations and the aesthetic values they support.

Seven Poor Men of Sydney

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Seven Poor Men of Sydney written by Christina Stead and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magic Phrase

Author : Margaret Harris
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702225062
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Phrase written by Margaret Harris and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published.

The Man Who Loved Children

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453265252
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319624199
Total Pages : 1977 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.

Sand in Our Souls

Author : Leone Huntsman
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
ISBN 13 : 9780522849455
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Sand in Our Souls written by Leone Huntsman and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of 'the beach' pervade Australian popular culture. However the deeper significance of the experience of 'the beach', and its influence on Australian culture generally, have not yet been seriously explored. How, why and when did the beach become part of the Australian way of life? In Sand in our Souls Leone Huntsman describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australians' enjoyment of sand and surf, from early enjoyment of bathing, through nearly a century of repressive restrictions, to freedom won in the face of drawn-out opposition. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance. She traces the development of a distinctively Australian way-of-being-at-the-beach, suggesting that the beach experience has been absorbed into our emerging culture and continues to shape it in subtle ways. Huntsman's provocative arguments will stimulate debate on the concept of 'national identity' appropriate for a new Australian century, and promote a deeper understanding of an aspect of life in Australia that is cherished by many of those who live here.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009099507
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

Literary Sydney

Author : Jill Dimond
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702231506
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Literary Sydney written by Jill Dimond and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly entertaining and thoroughly researched walking guide to many of Sydney's famous literary landmarks, including galleries, pubs, theatres, libraries, newspaper offices, parks and museums. It tours the homes and bohemian haunts of legendary Australian writers, such as Patrick White, Les Murray, Germaine Greer, Thomas Keneally etc.

Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism

Author : Meg Brayshaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303064426X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism by : Meg Brayshaw

Download or read book Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism written by Meg Brayshaw and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In Australia’s earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M. Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of the city ‘built on water’. Mapping Sydney via its watery and littoral places, these writers trace impacts of empire, commercial capitalism, global trade and technology on the city, while drawing on estuarine logics of flow and blockage, circulation and sedimentation to innovate modes of writing temporally, geographically and aesthetically specific to Sydney’s provincial modernity. Contributing to the growing field of oceanic or aqueous studies, Sydney and its Waterway and Australian Modernism shows the capacity of water and human-water relations to make both generative and disruptive contributions to urban topography and narrative topology

The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009058347
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature written by Ato Quayson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.

A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133496
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 written by Nicholas Birns and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

Author : Peter Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188165X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature written by Peter Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Writing the City

Author : Peter Preston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134843682
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Writing the City written by Peter Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that classic geographical descriptions of the city fail to accomodate the crucial aspect of human life, this visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers.

Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743325797
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s written by David Carter and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature’s connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures. Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and how the international circulation of new literary genres created new opportunities for novelists to move between markets. Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.

Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity

Author : Brigid Rooney
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088168
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity written by Brigid Rooney and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time. ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ rethinks existing cultural debates about suburbia – in Australia and elsewhere – by putting novelistic representations of ‘suburbs’ (suburban interiors, homes, streets, forms and lives over time) in dialogue with the often negative idea of ‘suburbia’ in fiction as an amnesic and conformist cultural wasteland. ‘Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity’ shows, in other words, how Australian novels dramatize the collision between the sensory terrain of the remembered suburb and the cultural critique of suburbia. It is through such contradictions that novels create resonant mental maps of place and time. Australian novels are a prism through which suburbs – as sites of everyday colonization, defined by successive waves of urban development – are able to be glimpsed sidelong.