Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Contemporary Australian literature'
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Tindall, Alexis. "Creating Australia : cultural representations and national identity in contemporary Australian literature /." Title page, contents and conclusion only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art588.pdf.
Full textBlackmore, Ernie. "Speakin' out blak an examination of finding an "urban" Indigenous "voice" through contemporary Australian theatre /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html.
Full text"Including the plays Positive expectations and Waiting for ships." Title from web document (viewed 7/4/08). Includes bibliographical references: leaf 249-267.
Gibbons, Sacha R. J. "Aboriginal testimonial life-writing and contemporary cultural theory /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18737.pdf.
Full textWeeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.
Full textWeeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette Weeda-Zuidersma Jeannette. "Keeping mum representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature : a fictocritical exploration /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054/.
Full textPotter, Emily Claire. "Disconcerting ecologies : representations of non-indigenous belonging in contemporary Australian literature and cultural discourse." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php865.pdf.
Full textDunne, Catherine Margaret. "An ado/aptive reading and writing of Australia and its contemporary literature." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2320.
Full textTitle from title screen (viewed 29 Apr. 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.
Full textRobb, Simon. "Fictocritical sentences." 2001, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr631.pdf.
Full textSeran, Justine Calypso. "Intersubjective acts and relational selves in contemporary Australian Aboriginal and Aotearoa/New Zealand Maori women's writing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21999.
Full textLiu, Yuanhang. "Reifungsromane vis-à-vis Social Novels about Older Women: A Comparative Study on Fiction about Female Ageing in Contemporary Australian and Chinese Literature." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80628.
Full textALHAJJI, ALI A. "“The Reliability of Cross-Cultural Communication in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Writing”." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531502012291.
Full textTaylor, Christopher George. "The Good Bloke in Contemporary Australian Workplaces: Origins, Qualities and Impacts of a National Cultural Archetype in Small For-Profit Businesses." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1566171729886909.
Full textCruz, Talita Mochiute. "A ficção australiana de J. M. Coetzee: o romance autorreflexivo contemporâneo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-10092015-160114/.
Full textThis dissertation presents a reading of J. M. Coetzees so-called Australian fiction comprising the works Elizabeth Costello (2003), Slow Man (2005), and Diary of a Bad Year (2007). These novels, belonging to the authors late prose, share core aesthetic and ethical issues. They are meaningful works characterized by self-reflexive inflection. This study follows Elizabeth Costello and Señor C in their writer-characters constitution and journey to discuss how the presence of the writers double, as literary device, destabilizes the notions of author, character, and narrator, as well as it blurs the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The dramatization of the creative process in the center of Coetzees works is another focus of analysis aiming to understand the impossibility of staging the novel in formal realism patterns. This work also attempts to suggest Coetzees response on the validity of the novel in the contemporary world.
Holliday, Penny. "The shifting city : a study of contemporary fictional representations Of Melbourne's inner and outer suburban spaces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103101/4/Penelope_Holliday_Thesis.pdf.
Full textDallmann, Tino [Verfasser]. "Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction / Tino Dallmann." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1105292754/34.
Full textTruter, Victoria Zea. "Dreamscape and death : an analysis of three contemporary novels and a film." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012976.
Full textBach, Lisa [Verfasser]. "Spatial Belonging: Approaching Aboriginal Australian Spaces in Contemporary Fiction / Lisa Bach." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121614284X/34.
Full textSharp, Christine Helen. "Aurora : an illustrated novella." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41466/1/Christine_Sharp_Thesis.pdf.
Full text(14037570), Ayesha E. Hall. "Changing perspectives: Formulations of identity in contemporary Australian literature." Thesis, 2003. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Changing_perspectives_Formulations_of_identity_in_contemporary_Australian_literature/21443109.
Full textQuestions of identity occupy a central place in the history of the development of Australian literature and its critical construction and reception. The notions of identity appealed to in the various stages of this development have been closely imbricated with prevailing cultural and critical assumptions and practices.
The model of identity that was appealed to in earlier periods of Australian literature and its academic criticism was understandably circumscribed by the Anglo-centric prescriptions of the Colonial Convict period, embellished but not significantly changed by the influence of the Bush Pioneers and a growing Nationalist sentiment enhanced by the spirit of the first world war Anzacs. While, as with all identity models, this one suffered its own ambiguities and slippages, it did successfully exercise a hegemony, reinforced by the then dominant academic practices, that largely excluded the identity experiences of Indigenous people, non-white immigrants, women and those whose sexual orientations lay outside of the parameters of heteronormativity.
The Identities that have subsequently been articulated by such previously excluded groups and taken up by those within the academy influenced by developments in postcolonial, feminist, poststructural and postmodern (including Queer) theory have effectively functioned to dismantle the hegemony exerted by earlier unitary and reductive notions of Australian identity.
Previously neglected areas of Australian writing such as Indigenous, multicultural and youth literature, as representations of minority identities have articulated often oppositional conceptions of identity to those formulated within the former orthodoxy. Such texts, most particularly those more recent ones which engage with radical rearticulations of sexual identity, have increasingly moved towards fluid conceptions of identity which ultimately serve to pose the question of the usefulness of the unqualified notion The Australian Identity as a meaningful category of analysis for the literature now being produced within Australia.
Haynes, BF. "Elements of carnival and the carnivalesque in contemporary Australian children's literature." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36464.
Full textThis thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.
Tan, Yvette Ek Hiang. "Discourses of multiculturalism and contemporary Asian-Australian literature / Yvette Ek Hiang Tan." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22044.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of English, 2004
Potter, Emily Claire. "Disconcerting ecologies : representations of non-indigenous belonging in contemporary Australian literature and cultural discourse / Emily Claire Potter." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21970.
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Specific concern is the poetic, as well as literal, significance given to the environment, and in particular to land, as a measure of belonging in Australia. Environment is explored in the context of ecologies, offered here as an alternative configuration of the nation, and in which the subject, through human and non-human environmental relations, can be culturally and spatially positioned. Argues that both environment and ecology are narrowly defined in dominant discourses that pursue an ideal, certain and authentic belonging for non-indigenous Australians.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2003
Garretson, Anna. "Unsettling fictions : contemporary white writing from South Africa and Australia." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151206.
Full textHolmes, Susan. "First Impressions: Writing a contemporary Australian adaptation of Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/27713/.
Full textLynn, Jenna-Lee Delle. "Negotiating dark matter: trauma and ecology in the fiction of contemporary Australian women writers." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407778.
Full textThis thesis examines Janette Turner Hospital’s novels within the context of sites and expressions of trauma: locally, nationally and globally. Its focus is on rereading representations of trauma that destabilise dominant discourses about memory, place, nationality, community and gender. This dissertation also argues for a new interpretative paradigm for reading texts that deal with trauma and proposes a lens comprising eco-feminism and trauma theory. The framework I have created explores the phenomenon of trauma in literature as one of the defining features of human nature that shapes our ecological ontologies. Reading Turner Hospital’s fiction through a colloquy of trauma theory and eco-feminism shows how sites of wounding, embodied in land, the human form, art and music, can be reimagined to acknowledge the personal and cultural significance of working through pain. Using traumatic sites of national and global significance in Turner Hospital’s work also invites a reconsideration of trauma theory through examining different modes of hearing about and engaging with wounding to actualise bodily and psychic restoration. The major focus of my research is on the ways that eco-critical concerns interact with trauma and how this approach to reading Australian women’s fiction provides deeper understanding of trauma’s impact, both at the literal and metaphysical levels of experience. A case study of selected texts from Turner Hospital’s collection of writing will be used in conjunction with Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Lily Brett’s Too Many Men to examine how trauma affects Australia’s immigrant culture, mobilises the dispossession of its Indigenous people and speaks to discourses that are of international concern, including Australia’s vulnerability to the threat of international terrorism and the ways we respond to situations that violate basic human rights. The selection of Australian texts written by women provides a rich context for examining ongoing personal, national and global issues that underpin trauma.
Killen, Chloe. "True stories about tall tales: a study of creativity and cultural production in contemporary Australian children’s picture books." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312065.
Full textCreativity is a uniquely human trait. However its ubiquity does not mean it is simple to understand. Various investigations into the nature of creativity have focused on an individual’s biology or psychology, or studied the surrounding society and culture in an attempt to pinpoint creative action. These types of studies, while they have their merit, have tended to focus only on one part of the phenomenon at the expense of the others. Instead, as current research suggests, a more valuable explanation of creativity is one that encompasses multiple factors in a system of mutual influence. It is argued that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s systems model of creativity (1988, 1996, 1999) along with Pierre Bourdieu’s discussion of cultural production (1977, 1993, 1996) as examples of confluence approaches provide the best theoretical foundation to examine the complexity of creativity, as they both consider personal influences in conjunction with broader social and cultural contexts. All three of these components, a domain of cultural knowledge, a social field of experts, and individual creators can be identified within the sphere of Australian children’s picture books. Analysis of the data collected examined the connections between these three components to reveal the underlying systemic nature of creativity in Australian children’s picture books. This research employed case study methodology to examine the work processes of and interactions between key producers of Australian children’s picture books. Of the 20 people interviewed, 18 had written or illustrated a picture book. These authors and illustrators provide a broad sample from the population with some at the beginning of their careers producing only a handful of books while others produced more than 60 books over multiple decades. Additionally, a number of these authors and illustrators have worked in other production roles as editors, publishers, and booksellers so they were also able to speak to the function these intermediaries performed within the field. To support the interviews conducted with these participants, various modes of observation were used along with document and artefact analysis. The data gathered through these methods has demonstrated that there is a dynamic relationship constantly evolving between individual producers and the social and cultural structures they exist and work within. This research has concluded then, that rather than being the product of a singular individual, Australian children’s picture books are produced within a complex relation of systemic elements. Producers, often authors and illustrators, work as individuals by drawing upon their respective backgrounds to engage with a domain of knowledge that pre-exists them as well as engaging with a unique social structure consisting of all the cultural intermediaries (such as editors, publishers, and audiences) who regulate that knowledge, in order to produce a novel product. Understanding this complex system is the key to enhancing the abilities of cultural producers and increasing the cultural productivity of both individuals and society.
"Non-Natives and Nativists: The Settler Colonial Origins of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Contemporary Literatures of the US and Australia." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55467.
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Dalley, Hamish. "Postcolonialism and the historical novel : allegorical realism and contemporary literature of the past in Nigeria, Australia and New Zealand." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155168.
Full textDavidson, Kristy Lee. "Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21487/.
Full textMuirden, Sallie. "We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel." Thesis, 2001. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18195/.
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