MIDTERM ASSESSMENT IN WORLD LITERATURE (LIT2)

AUSTRALIA
THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
Australia the worlds SMALLEST continent and SIXTH largest country Has more desert land than any other continent resulting to a low population density Bounded by: Indian Ocean West and south Pacific Ocean East

AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
Written Australian Literature in the English Language began 50 years after the settlement of the country by Europeans, who arrived in 1788 Transported convicts predominated during the first decades of European settlement, creating a wealth of songs and ballads based on English and Irish models. Common Themes Indigenous and settler identity Alienation Exile Relationship to place

The Land 5 Mainland States New South Wales Queensland South Australia Victoria Western Australia

Aborigines had a rich and varied oral tradition Their songs and tales celebrated the mythical dreamtime

One Island State Tasmania Territories Northern Territory Australian Capital (ACT) The People Aborigines Torrens Strait Islander Outback vast area in the interior which remains uninhabited Territory

COLONIAL PERIOD
British colonizers England and Ireland Wants to find a new territory for prisoners of war and convicts

Formal Poetry and Fiction of the late 18th and 19th centuries frequently expressed surprise or alarm at local flora and fauna and emphasized or exaggerated the uniqueness of Australian things Quintus Servinton: A Tale Founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence was written and published in Tasmania in 1831

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Written by the convicted forger Henry Savery Regarded as a thinly disguised autobiography designed to demonstrate how his fictional equivalent was different from the general convict population the country and also the early rural settlements. Henry Kingsley Australian prose inaugurated

The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn in 1859, transplanting English social customs and aspirations to an Australian setting

The Guardian a tale written by Anna Maria Bunn and was published in Sydney on 1838 First Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia First Australian novel written by a woman A Gothic romance

Truganini negotiator, diplomat and guerilla fighter Australis (Latin) southern Terra Australis Incognita unknown land of the South Great Barrier Reef worlds largest coral reef Mount Augustus largest monolith Queen Elizabeth Australia II Queen of

Writers Who Tried to Embody Different Stirring Ideals in their Tales *Rolf Boldrewood *Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life - The best early Australian novel - a detailed account of convict life, published in 1874 *Joseph Furphy tried to accurately record the vernacular language of the common Australian - Father of Australian Novel * Gave valuable insights into the penal colonies which helped form

Australian English their language Religion no state religion Federal government prohibited the establishment of religious observance and the denial of the freedom of religion 76% Roman Catholic

Close of 19th century colonial phase was ending Writers were becoming more individual and less self conscious of their environment

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NATIONALIST PERIOD
Political Nationalism sought to depict typically Australian qualities and character traits. Special emphasis was placed on: Egalitarianism - equality Loneliness Individualism stresses moral worth of individual Pragmatic Materialism philosophical belief that physical forces on moral sense produces effect Important Works Short Stories Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton Verse Lawson and A.B. Banjo Paterson Novels Tom Collins (pseudonym of Joseph Furphy) and Miles Franklin Robbery Under Arms (1880) Rolf Boldrewood (pseudonym of Thomas Alexander Browne) Most popular novel of this period More of a product of earlier period, however, emphasizing the exploits of bushrangers The Chosen Vessel ( a bush wife is raped and murdered by a traveling swagman while her husband is away) Examines isolation and alienation of women in the Australian outback Provide realistic depictions of the hardships of bush life while presenting a grim subjective vision of a malevolent landscape and the sinister figures that populate it her short stories of the late 1800s and early 1900s convey people living in the bush, a landscape that is alive but also threatening and alienating

What it means to be Australian another issue Australian Literature explores Miles Franklin struggled to find a place for herself as a female writer Author of My Brilliant Career(1901) Miles Franklin Award

Patrick Victor Martindale White (Patrick White) The Twyborn Affair Tries to conform to expectations of pre WWII masculinity but cannot, and instead, post war , tries out another identity GENDER- overseas

Barbara Baynton her stories centers on the isolation and terror that often dominated womens lives in rural districts

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Widely regarded as a major Englishlanguage novelist of the 20th century 12 novels, 2 short stories and 8 plays His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique The Eye of the Storm Loneliness/ Isolation Hardship Importance of Humour The Emotional Impact of Bush Life Mateship

Great Australian Poets Christopher Brennan Adam Lindsay Gordon National Poet of Australia Jockey and politician The only Australian with a monument in Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey in England Song of Autumn

Poetry played an important part in the founding of Australian Literature Henry Lawson son of Norwegian sailor born in 1867 Widely recognized as Australias poet of the people Became the first Australian writer to be honored with a state funeral (1922) Among the best known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period Australias greatest writer Freedom on the Wallaby, A Child in the Writer, Dark and a Foreign Father and No Place For A Woman of Lawsons

MODERN PERIOD
Christopher Brennan his works introduced a note of cosmopolitan sophistication and made Australian writers aware of modernist work overseas His chief work was designed to be read as a single poem, complete, yet formed of smaller works His major work is Poems:1913 Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

Themes Works:

Roles of Women Roles of Men Roles of Children

(Note: It is not until WWII that Australian Literature ceased to be

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somewhat old-fashioned parochial in its concerns attitudes) and and David Malouf (The Only Speaker of His Tongue) and Rodney Hall both created international audience for their works in prose Jack Davis and Kevin Gilbert playwright Jack Davis Western Australian Secretary of FCAATSI The First Born other Poems Kulark and Dreamers (plays) and The

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
Patrick White first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 His works explores universal issues, drawing upon traditional local themes and his interests have had considerable impact The Eye of the Storm

Kevin Gilbert first Australias recognized Aboriginal printmaker Oodgeroo Noonuccal poet and activist Judith Wright one of Australias most celebrated poets Her description of the beauty and history of the land has earned her numerous literary awards and devotion of the public Presents a world in which human and nature are bonded together Full Moon Rhyme

Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Schindlers List (ranges widely in space and time)

Colleen McCollough captured legions of admirers with her epic of the Australian outback, The Thorn Birds Other Novelists Internationally: Janet Frame Dorothy Hewett Thea Astley Elizabeth Jolley Publishing -

21ST CENTURY
Kim Scott That Dead Man Dance Alexis Wright Plains of Promise and Carpentaria June Tara Winch Swallow the Air Yvette Holf Premonition Anonymous

Writers Who Left Australia in the 1960s for England and America Germaine Greer feminist critic and essayist Clive James Robert Hughes Barry Humphires

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Anita Heis Not Meeting Mr. Right Donald Stuart Ilbarana Nobel Prize Winners William Henry Bragg Physics Howard Florey Medicine John Cornforth Chemistry Peter Doherty Medicine Macfarlane Burnett (immunology) Medicine (Note: News About separate page) Australia on

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John Eccles ionic mechanism For Literature Patrick White J.M Coetzee Colleen McCollough The Thorn Birds Paul Brickhills The Great Escape Pamela Lyndon Travers Mary Pulpins Morris West The Shoes of the Fisherman Exodus

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One Peter Carey Man Brooker Price For Fiction Janette Turner James Clavel Asian Saga and The Noble House

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