Texts

Course reader : selected short texts!$!Henry Lawson, AB Paterson, Barbara Baynton, Marcus Clarke, Kenneth Slessor, John Shaw Nielsen, Gwen Harwood and Aboriginal narrative!$! !$!!$!
Lucky Country (from Paese Fortunato) Rosa R. Cappiello , 1983 extract novel (Paese Fortunato : Romanzo) (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 1983; (p. 7-14)
y separately published work icon Sadness William Yang , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1996 Z1129731 1996 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units)
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y separately published work icon Carpentaria Alexis Wright , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2006 Z1184902 2006 single work novel (taught in 47 units) Carpentaria's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, whose members are the leaders of the Pricklebush people, and their battles with old Joseph Midnight's tearaway Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright's storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. The novel is populated by extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, leader of the holy Aboriginal pilgrimage, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the ever-vigilant Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Will Phantom, and above all, Angel Day the queen of the rubbish-dump, and her sea-faring husband Normal Phantom, the fish-embalming king of time - figures that stand like giants in this storm-swept world. (Backcover)
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The Night the Prowler Patrick White , 1974 single work short story (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: The Cockatoos : Shorter Novels and Stories 1974; (p. 120-168) The Night, the Prowler : Short Story and Screenplay 1978; (p. 5-57)
— Appears in: Loomingu Raamatukogu : Eesti Kirjanike Liidu Ajakiri , no. 2/3 1979; (p. 5-43)
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y separately published work icon Maurice Guest Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1908 Z821550 1908 single work novel (taught in 6 units)

'A passionate and controversial novel set in turn-of-the-century Europe

'Henry Handel Richardson’s debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world—among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. Maurice Guest is the story of this overwhelming passion.

'The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the original manuscript and tone down its language.' (Publication summary)
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y separately published work icon An Imaginary Life : A Novel David Malouf , New York (City) : George Braziller , 1978 Z828578 1978 single work novel (taught in 8 units)

'In prose that is both elegant and lyrical, David Malouf departs from the little-known facts of Ovid's exile beyond the pale of civilization to create a deeply moving novel of extraordinary beauty. An outcast in a vast wasteland at the edge of the Black Sea, Ovid discovers a feral child. As he teaches the boy to speak the language of the civilized world, the child tutors him in his own tongue, the language of nature, and the once barren landscape begins to resonate with meaning.' (Publisher's blurb)
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y separately published work icon Judith Wright : Selected Poems Judith Wright , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 Z565587 1963 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units)

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This course introduces students to a range of Australian writing from across the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the ways these writings present modes of connection and displacement in relation to the land, the nation and the imaginative world.

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Offered in: 2008, 2007, 2006
Current Campus: Kensington Campus
Levels: Undergraduate
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