From Bunyip to Boom: Australian Fiction, 1955–1975
From Bunyip to Boom: Australian Fiction, 1955–1975
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Cambridge University Press
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English
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This chapter tracks the quest for ’the great Australian novel’ that would mark the consolidation of national culture occurring after World War II. It surveys major novelists from Patrick White onwards, showing the change from realist (bush) saga to modernist (urban) psychological studies to experimental ’counter-culture’ fiction, noting turns towar...
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From Bunyip to Boom: Australian Fiction, 1955–1975
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TN_cdi_cambridge_corebooks_9781009090049_CN_bp_18
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_cambridge_corebooks_9781009090049_CN_bp_18
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1316514854,9781009088565,9781316514856,1009088564
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10.1017/9781009090049.019
