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Buckridge leaves the reader to ponder questions regarding the significance of Mickle in Australian literature, and the future place his books might have in a crowded marketplace of ideas which nonetheless needs-in the interests of building an appreciation of the rich diversity of Australia's li...

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Published inJournal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL Vol. 9; p. 1
Main Authors Lever, Susan, Dalziell, Tanya, Genoni, Paul, Devlin-Glass, Frances
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sydney Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) 01.01.2009
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Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
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Summary:Buckridge leaves the reader to ponder questions regarding the significance of Mickle in Australian literature, and the future place his books might have in a crowded marketplace of ideas which nonetheless needs-in the interests of building an appreciation of the rich diversity of Australia's literary output-to give space to the quirky and the unusual. [...]Toby Davidson refuses to dodge the question of defining mysticism in discussing John Shaw Neilson as a poet in the Christian mystical tradition. [...]Bernadette Brennan finds in Francis Webb's late poems an increasing willingness to address the inevitability of death. Cerce highlights that in addition to their status as landmark texts of mid-century social realism, these novels also share a more obscure but nonetheless revealing point of comparison in their authors' ambivalent reactions to writing large, confronting novels that proved to be contentious in both literary and political circles.
ISSN:1447-8986