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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Christina Stead : The Voyage to Cythera
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Discusses the motif of the wanderer or Nietzschean 'free spirit' in three of Stead's early novels where the image of the island of Cythera is invoked as the 'metaphoric goal of the quest'. Connects Stead's themes with similar preoccupations in the works of Brennan and Slessor.

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  • Includes reference to the influence of Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche on Christina Stead.

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    y separately published work icon Span no. 26 April 1988 Z817929 1988 periodical issue 1988 pg. 33-45
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