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'A new poetics is evident in a developing genre named here as "co-evolutionary histories." This essay considers the relation of oral and written traditions to landscape and trees with reference to Murray Bail's novel Eucalyptus and Virginia Woolf's 'Anon.'' (p. 39)
This essay explores the impact of gender, colonial inheritance, and European modernism upon the representation of landscape in general, and trees in particular, in the work of two female artists who achieved iconic national status in the twentieth century: Canadian painter Emily Carr and Australian poet Judith Wright.
