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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The University Is Closed for Open Day : Australia in the Twenty-First Century
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'Where is analysis in this age of banal tweets and narcissistic comments? Stephen Knight turns his modernly analytical and historically aware mind to current attitudes and actions in need of serious examination. What is the impact of the bush myth on the national consciousness of Australian fiction? What of the modern shift in writing about Indigenous issues, from white writers to First Peoples? What has suddenly happened to Australian crime fiction? Other essays look at unravelling travelling, the tiny machines that obsess us, then those bizarrely flourishing modern identity-enhancers & tattoos and personalised number plates; and of course, the state of the contemporary university. Here is 21st century national complexity, its origins and its international connections, explored in a socially referential and almost always serious way.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: For Margaret, as ever.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Melbourne University Publishing , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Did Matilda Want to Waltz? : Fiction before the Bush Myth, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
'Australia is deeply enmeshed with the myth of the bush, which is nevertheless an elusive place to describe. It might be rural, even hilly, terrain not very far from the coast; it might be flatter and dryer and further inland, where it can also be called the outback; it can even be, and in some sense centrally is, the huge arid spaces of the continental centre that have been collectively named the 'never-never', regions that seem beyond time. Essentially, the bush is not urban, though it may contain occasional far-separated small cohabitation. What it is not is a city or a town. Yet by the late nineteenth century, when the bush myth developed, already two-thirds of Australians lived in large urban areas, and theirs is now a very highly urbanised country: the bush myth is not in reality based on a nationally dominant formation.' (Introduction)

 
White Australia or Fair Australia? : Indigenous Fiction Tells the Story, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
Unravelling Travelling and Its Enfironments, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
Marksism Today, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
I'm Driving Myself : The Poetry of Car Plates and Names, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
Modern Machines and Machinations, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
The Clues Were There All the Time : The Mystery of Australian Crime Fiction, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
The University Is Closed for Open Day, Stephen Knight , single work criticism
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