1st Edition
A Question of Commitment Australian literature in the twenty years after the war
By Susan Lever
Copyright 1989
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the years since the Second World War, Australia has seen a period of literary creativity which outshines any earlier period in the nation's literary history. This creativity has its beginnings in the arguments and alignments which emerged at the end of the War, and the changes in perceptions of art and society which occurred during the fifties and early sixties. A Question of Commitment... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Pursuing the National Tradition
2 Cultural Freedom and Quadrant
3 James McAuley's Quest
4 Uncommitted Modern Man: A. D. Hope
5 Douglas Stewart and the Bulletin
6 The Writer and the Crisis: Judith Wright and David Campbell
7 A New Kind of Novel: the Work of Patrick White
8 Drama, Old and New
9 Australian Civilisation?
Endnotes
Index
Introduction
1 Pursuing the National Tradition
2 Cultural Freedom and Quadrant
3 James McAuley's Quest
4 Uncommitted Modern Man: A. D. Hope
5 Douglas Stewart and the Bulletin
6 The Writer and the Crisis: Judith Wright and David Campbell
7 A New Kind of Novel: the Work of Patrick White
8 Drama, Old and New
9 Australian Civilisation?
Endnotes
Index
Biography
Susan McKernan is a graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. A frequent reviewer for the Bulletin and Australian literary journals, she has taught literature in Australian universities for a number of years and lectures in English at the University College, Australian Defence Force Academy.
