02564 am 22004933u 450 991016695110332120200610153350.01-74332-437-51-74332-478-2(CKB)4340000000000155(MiAaPQ)EBC5314888(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120720(OCoLC)917890176(ScCtBLL)08784f95-fde3-4bc0-b3c0-028091d8cc3d(EXLCZ)99434000000000015520200604d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContemporary Australian literature a world not yet dead /Nicholas BirnsSydney, New South Wales :Sydney University Press,2015.1 online resource (270 pages) illustrationsSydney studies in Australian literaturePrint version (paperback): 1743324367 9781743324363 Includes bibliographical references and index.Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice- one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it.Sydney studies in Australian literature.Exiles' writingsHistory and criticismExpatriate authorsAustraliaAuthors, Australian20th centuryHistory and criticismExiles' writingsHistory and criticism.Expatriate authorsAuthors, AustralianHistory and criticism.809.8920691Birns Nicholas936207WaSeSSWaSeSSBOOK9910166951103321Contemporary Australian literature2109050UNINA