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* Contents derived from the Simla,Himachal Pradesh,
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India,
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South Asia,South and East Asia,Asia,:Indian Institute of Advanced Study,1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'Modern histories of a nation's literature require a comprehensive, scholarly
approach. A serious literary history of Australia should focus primarily on literary
form and content - the stories and myths of Australians in a variety of literary
genres. Relevant historical contexts will extend from local and regional concerns to
Australians' links with Europe, North America and, increasingly, Asia. Colonial
and post-colonial contexts provide important avenues of investigation and research,
employing the scholarly disciplines of bibliography, biography and textual editing.' (Author's abstract)
