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"This article examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country." (p.13)
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Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction
Altona
Toowoomba
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Common Ground
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
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2004
Z1134370
2004
multi chapter work
criticism
'Subverting the Empire traces the influences of Australian colonial exploration on writers of contemporary Australian fiction. Exploration journals serve as points of origin for social myths that continue to exercise the national imagination. This book examines these myths through a reading of the work of Thea Astley, Gerald Murnane and Rodney Hall' (back cover).
Last amended 26 Mar 2002 14:31:43
13-21; notes 151-152
Subverting the Empire : Exploration in the Fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Carey
Journal of Australian Studies
Journal of Australian Studies
Subjects:
- Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel
- Reaching Tin River 1990 single work novel
- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 1996 single work novel
- The Well Dressed Explorer 1962 single work novel
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