LEADER 02564 am 22004933u 450 001 9910166951103321 005 20200610153350.0 010 $a1-74332-437-5 010 $a1-74332-478-2 035 $a(CKB)4340000000000155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5314888 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120720 035 $a(OCoLC)917890176 035 $a(ScCtBLL)08784f95-fde3-4bc0-b3c0-028091d8cc3d 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000000155 100 $a20200604d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary Australian literature $ea world not yet dead /$fNicholas Birns 210 1$aSydney, New South Wales :$cSydney University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSydney studies in Australian literature 311 08$aPrint version (paperback): 1743324367 311 08$a9781743324363 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aAustralia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice- one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. 410 0$aSydney studies in Australian literature. 606 $aExiles' writings$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExpatriate authors$zAustralia 606 $aAuthors, Australian$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aExiles' writings$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExpatriate authors 615 0$aAuthors, Australian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.8920691 700 $aBirns$b Nicholas$0936207 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910166951103321 996 $aContemporary Australian literature$92109050 997 $aUNINA