y separately published work icon Collected Essays of Walter Murdoch Containing Speaking Personally, Saturday Mornings, Moreover, The Wild Planet, Lucid Intervals selected work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 Collected Essays of Walter Murdoch Containing Speaking Personally, Saturday Mornings, Moreover, The Wild Planet, Lucid Intervals
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* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1938 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Bloke, Walter Murdoch , single work essay (p. 15-19)
On Being Australian, Walter Murdoch , single work essay
A collection of essays by Australian writers was criticised in the British press for having insufficient 'native' content, thereby rendering it in no way distinctive from the work of English writers.Walter Murdoch asks: 'what is the Australian writer to be allowed to be interested in, without being held to have forfeited his right to consider himself Australian?' Murdoch argues that Australians 'have the same right as Englishmen have to be interested in things which belong neither to Australia nor to England, but to the world.'
 (p. 330-333)
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