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Traces the evolution of ambivalent attitudes towards outback and city from the white exploration and settlement of Australia and, through ...analysis of White's work, assesses their implications for contemporary writers." (Introduction)
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yFrom Outback to City : Changing Preoccupations in Australian Literature of the Twentieth CenturyAlexandra S. Cromwell
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New York (City):American Association of Australian Literary Studies (AAALS),1988Z9118121988anthology criticism Introduction: "the mythology of life in the outback ... has been powerful and persistent." These essays "interrogate the mythologising by which a society resolves in fantasy contradictions which persist in reality."New York (City):American Association of Australian Literary Studies (AAALS),1988