The Cambridge companion to the Australian novel / edited by Nicholas Birns, New York University, Louis Klee, University of Cambridge.
| Other author | Birns, Nicholas. |
| Other author | Klee, Louis. |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| Description | xxxvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : preoccupations of the Australian novel / Louis Klee and Nicholas Birns -- Presencing : writing in the decolonial space / Jeanine Leane -- Literary visitors and the Australian novel / Brendan Casey -- Settler colonial fictions : beyond nationalism and universalism / Paul Giles -- White writing, indigenous Australia, and the chronotopes of the settler novel / Michael Griffiths -- Mabo, mob, and the novel / Evelyn Araluen -- Publishing the Australian novel / Emmett Stinson -- 'Rich and strange' : Christina Stead and the transnational novel / Fiona Morrison -- Sexuality in Patrick White's fiction / Chen Hong -- Constellational form in Gerald Murnane / Louis Klee -- Helen Garner's house of fiction / Brigid Rooney -- Alexis Wright's novel activism / Lynda Ng -- Kim Scott and the doctoral novel / Joseph Steinberg -- The contemporary western Sydney novel / Lachlan Brown -- First Nations transnationalism / Declan Fry -- Beyond the cosmopolitan : small dangerous fragments / Michelle Cahill -- Craft and truth : the Australian verse novel / Nicholas Birns -- Queering mateship : David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas / Lesley Hawkes and Mark Piccini -- Australian fiction in the anthropocene / Tony Hughes D'Aeth -- What is the (Australian) refugee novel? / Keyvan Allahyari. |
| Abstract | "Covering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source on a subject of growing interest to researchers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022031329 |
| ISBN | 9781316514481 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |