| Description |
279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Gary Crew: Their ghosts may be heard : a response to Ernest Favenc's novel Marooned in Australia -- Greg Dening: Reading to write -- Libby Gleeson: A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales : an encounter -- Carmel Bird: the cyclopedia: a short strange secret misty smokey mysterious history -- Lucy Frost: Displaying Trugernanna -- Henry Reynolds: On first looking into Rusden's History -- Dorothy Porter: Calling a spade for Barbara Baynton -- Rodney Hall: Such is life : the masterpiece that might have changed our literature -- Bill Gammage: Mrs Aeneas Gunn -- Beverly Farmer: Coonardoo : the well in the shadow -- Tim Griffiths: Flying fox and drifting sand : going with the flow -- Lew Murray: The bellweather brush -- Delia Falconer: Kenneth Slessor : the intimacy of the table -- Peter Goldsworthy: Hal Porter : the watcher with a cast-iron alibi -- Cassandra Pybus: Sing memory : a reverie for Gwen Harwood -- Alexis Wright: A family document -- Elizabeth Jolley: Peter Cowan : the criterion and the principle -- Brian Matthews: Hanson |
| Summary |
18 well-known Australian authors discuss the writers or stories that inspire them |
| Analysis |
Australian literature - Miscellanea |
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Inspiration in literature |
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Authors, Australian - 20th century - Anecdotes |
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Australia - Intellectual life |
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Australia - In literature |
| Notes |
Eighteen well-known Australian authors discuss the writers or stories who inspire them. Not only do they give us an insight into their motivations and values, they also provide a map of our own rich heritage |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 277-279 |
| Notes |
Gary Crew. University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Staff |
| Subject |
Authors, Australian.
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Australian literature -- Appreciation.
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Australian literature -- History and criticism.
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Inspiration in literature.
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Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Australian literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Books and reading -- Australia.
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Storytelling -- Australia.
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Authorship.
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Best books -- Australian literature
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Australian literature -- Miscellanea.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
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Australia -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101694
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Halligan, Marion, 1940-
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| LC no. |
2002437567 |
| ISBN |
1876631104 paperback |
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