A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years After the War

ISBN-13: 9780367717339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Susan Lever

Opis

A Question of Commitment examines the attitudes of writers as diverse as James McAuley, Frank Hardy, Judith Wright, Patrick White and A. D. Hope as they responded to changes in postwar Australian society. Susan McKernan's lively exploration contextualises and explains the creative choices these writers made, and introduces wider intellectual

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.