'Modern Australian Criticism and Theory brings together a selection of contemporary essays on Australian literature and cultural studies written by leading Australian critics and theorists...
The essays selected for this volume reflect upon the main critical and theoretical influences on the study of Australian literature and culture since the 1980s...' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
John Frow attempts 'to reconstruct the early days—roughly the decade of the 1980s—of cultural studies in Australia, in a way that relies heavily on anecdote and reminiscence. ' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
'Robert Dixon focuses on the present as a key moment of transformation in Australian literary and cultural as it moves from its founding 'nationalist' moment into a transnational framing of key issues.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)