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y separately published work icon Behind the Wind single work   novel   young adult  
Is part of The Book of Wirrun Patricia Wrightson , 1977 series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Behind the Wind
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Wirrun was happy and living free with his golden girl, Murra but separation and evil were lurking and Wirrun was called on for one last time to deal with a man's creation - death.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Hutchinson ,
      1981 .
      Extent: 156p.
      ISBN: 0091446201
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Atheneum ,
      1981 .
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      Alternative title: Journey Behind the Wind
      Extent: 156p.
      ISBN: 0689501986
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Ballantine Books ,
      1981 .
      Alternative title: Journey Behind the Wind
      Extent: 182p.
      ISBN: 0345294874
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1983 .
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      Extent: 156p.
      ISBN: 0140316299
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Song of Wirrun Patricia Wrightson , Melbourne : Douglas Century , 1987 Z515922 1987 selected work novel young adult Melbourne : Douglas Century , 1987
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Song of Wirrun Patricia Wrightson , Melbourne : Douglas Century , 1987 Z515922 1987 selected work novel young adult Ringwood : Puffin , 1993
Alternative title: Bortom vinden
Language: Swedish
    • Stockholm,
      c
      Sweden,
      c
      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Sjostrands ,
      1982 .
      Extent: 178p.
      ISBN: 9175740575

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , Sydney : 2009 27495428 2009 single work thesis

'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'

Source: Abstract.

Patricia Wrightson : 'Spirits in Their Own Land' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 227-235)
Patricia Wrightson's 'Wirrun': A Modern Aboriginal Mythic Hero John Gough , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 1 no. 3 1990; (p. 140-144)
Children's Adult Patricia Rolfe , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 August 1989; (p. 113)
Untitled Eve Pownall , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 48-49)

— Review of Behind the Wind Patricia Wrightson , 1981 single work novel
Untitled D.A.Y. , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , October vol. 45 no. 5 1981; (p. 221)

— Review of Behind the Wind Patricia Wrightson , 1981 single work novel
Untitled Eve Pownall , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 48-49)

— Review of Behind the Wind Patricia Wrightson , 1981 single work novel
Children's Adult Patricia Rolfe , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 August 1989; (p. 113)
Patricia Wrightson : 'Spirits in Their Own Land' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 227-235)
Patricia Wrightson's 'Wirrun': A Modern Aboriginal Mythic Hero John Gough , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 1 no. 3 1990; (p. 140-144)
Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report, 1982 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 84 1982; (p. 7-11)
y separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , Sydney : 2009 27495428 2009 single work thesis

'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'

Source: Abstract.

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