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	Australian Literature - LoveToKnow 1911
		Yet neither is distinctively Australian in the sense of showing a different outlook on life or a different sense of literary values, to that of the average contemporary English writer.
		The qualities of these new people, the Australians, begin to show in their literature, which is as yet more impressive in quantity than in quality.
		Editor for a quarter of a century of a notable Australian paper, he made it his mission to encourage young Australians to write of the life that was peculiar to Australia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Australian_Literature (895 words)

	Lost for words \| Books \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		THE decline of Australian literature is also blamed on funding cuts and the inexorable rise of postmodern theory, a charge that supporters of that theory deny strenuously.
		Australian literature, he says, is studied from China to Hungary, France to Singapore, because "it has always been the standard-bearer for Australian studies and a very important instrument of cultural diplomacy in this country".
		She is a 23-year-old literature student with a passion for Australian fiction, and her studies have been stymied by the dearth of Oz lit subjects on offer.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20836160-5001986,00.html (3326 words)

	Australian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian literature in English began soon after the establishment of the country by Europeans.
		Australian literature can be thought of as coming of age in 1973 when Patrick White became the first and so far only Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature although he was born and spent a large part of his life overseas.
		Australian literature has had several scandals surrounding the identity of writers notably the 1944 Ern Malley affair led to an obscenity trial and is often blammed for the lack of modernist poetry in Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_literature (1131 words)

	Australian literature on the nose? - On Line Opinion - 9/10/2006
		Combined with a number of events in the Australian literary world in the past months, it is clear that the reputation of Australian literature in its home country is on the nose.
		Aside from all this poor PR for Australian literature, perhaps a more salient development is the decline of the study of Australian literature in Australian universities, as a literature in its own right.
		The lack of interest, both general and academic, in Australian literature is alarming for the simple reason that fiction is fast becoming one of the few areas where truths are told.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4994 (1061 words)

	Australian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Australia, island continent located southeast of Asia and forming, with the nearby island of Tasmania, the Commonwealth of Australia, a...
		Aboriginal Australians, original inhabitants of Australia and their descendants.
		Australian Literature, literature written by English-speaking inhabitants of the continent of Australia.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Australian.html (109 words)

	Researching Australian children's literature
		The arrival in 1993 of The Oxford companion to Australian children's literature edited by Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre with impeccable scholarship established the credentials - recognised internationally - of an Australian literature for children.
		A feature of children's literature in Australia at the present time are the many opportunities for children to meet authors and illustrators through such bodies as Lateral Learning which organise speakers and workshop leaders to visit schools.
		Australian children's literature today has become 'all things to all people'; an eclectic smorgasbord to nourish as well as entertain young readers; a means of documenting social change and contemporary mores, and a fertile ground for research.
	alia.org.au /publishing/alj/53.1/full.text/saxby.html (4600 words)

	Australian literature - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		The celebrated history of Australian literature which began with Aboriginal storytelling, an integral part of life for Indigenous Australians, continued with the oral stories brought by convicts in the late eighteenth century.
		A visit to the literature category of the Culture and Recreation portal will provide over 250 Australian literature websites.
		Australia Council, which provides financial support through its Literature Board for literary works of fiction, non-fiction (defined as autobiography, biography, essays, histories, literary criticism or other analytical prose), children's literature, poetry, and writing for stage or radio.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/literature (742 words)

	Australian literature — FactMonster.com
		Australian literature: The Twentieth Century - The Twentieth Century The increasing industrialization of the early 20th cent.
		Australian literature: The Nineteenth Century - The Nineteenth Century Early attempts at producing literary works were rather gentrified, written...
		English literature - English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0805385.html (125 words)

	Solitude and loneliness and Australian Literature
		The reasons for the focus on solitude and loneliness in contemporary Australian literature are many and varied.
		While some critics point to Australian associations with the 'bush', others discuss 'deliberate choice' and the impact of the emigrant experience with its accompanying alienation through language, age and culture.
		The Indigenous people who populated country areas side by side with early Australian 'pioneers' were made 'invisible' in much of early Australian literature and history of country areas.
	anenglishpage.tripod.com /ausessay.html (2263 words)

	Australian children's literature - Cultural life in Australia
		Australian children's literature encompasses literary and artistic genres including poetry, drama, fiction, selected instructional materials and documentary works by Australian writers and illustrators, about Australian subjects or set in Australia for the information and entertainment of children.
		Literary works by Australian writers and illustrators and translations of these into other languages are collected to document the publishing output of Australian printed children's literature with particular emphasis on publications printed in New South Wales or about New South Wales.
		Materials that support the study of children's literature are collected in a range of formats including original manuscript and pictorial material, correspondence, publishers' archives and oral history.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /doclifensw/culture/childrenlit.cfm (737 words)

	Australian literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Because the vast majority of early Australian settlers were transported prisoners, the beginnings of Australian literature were oral rather than written.
		During the next few decades Australian writers began to discover at least their subject, if not yet their voice, with the interpretive nature poetry of Charles Harpur (1813–68) and Henry Kendall (1839–82) and with the novels of Henry Kingsley (brother of Charles Kingsley), who wrote about pioneer life.
		Richardson’s reputation was matched at mid-century by Patrick White whose strong, somber novels, Australian in setting yet universal in theme, reveal the author’s ambivalence toward his native land; White received the Nobel Prize in 1973.
	www.bartleby.com /65/au/Australlit.html (575 words)

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		The Bibliography of Australian Literature: A-E, which was published in September 2001 as an 800 page book, is the result of over a decade of collaborative research into the publication history of creative writing by Australian authors.
		The Bibliography of Australian Literature covers book publications by eligible authors of creative writing whose surnames begin with the letters A-E. Further work on authors whose names fall outside this scope continues within AustLit.
		The Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers became a part of the Australia's Literary Heritage Project in 1995 as a part of the bibliographical research carried out for the Bibliography of Australian Literature.
	www.lycos.com /info/australian-literature--miscellaneous.html (339 words)

	Association for the Study of Australian Literature
		The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) was incorporated in New South Wales, incorporating the Australian Literature Society (Established Melbourne 1899).
		At the beginning of a new century, Australian literature reflects on a controversial past and an uncertain future in which its traditional allegiances are being variously supplemented and replaced.
		The conference explores the temporal continuum of a past that is not even past, and the austral convergences of literatures across the Southern hemisphere.
	www.asc.uq.edu.au /asal/index.php (353 words)

	Australian Literature
		Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is also so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place.
		On an Australian front the winners of the Miles Franklin award provide quite a good introduction to Australian literature (in the form of novels) over the past 40 years or so, and the Australian/Vogel Award offers glimpses at possible literary futures.
		There are a number of Australian books (or books about Australia) that I think require attention but which, for various reasons, don't fit into any of the previously defined categories.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/lit.html (997 words)

	Australian Children's Literature
		The Australian Children's Literature subset originated in the specialist information collections of the Lu Rees Archives, which is supported by the University of Canberra and the Children's Book Council of Australia.
		The Australian Children's Literature subset includes records of works written for children and young adults, and about the authors who have written for them, in accordance with the AustLit Scope Policy.
		Australian Children's Literature information is also sourced from the full range of AustLit information sources, including the the National Bibliographic Database via Libraries Australia, and a number of specialist bibliographies, including:
	www.austlit.edu.au /specialistDatasets/LuRees (665 words)

	AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: LITERATURE
		The Literature Board affirms the role of literature as a celebration of language, the keystone of human communication.
		The Board aims to support the excellence, diversity, vitality, viability and distinctiveness of Australian literature.
		The Literature Board is committed to supporting and promoting a strong arts sector that effectively...
	www.ozco.gov.au /literature (246 words)

	Australian Literature
		But it is not just interested in writers and writing - their interests lie everywhere, and encompass current affairs and the broader culture.
		Australian Literary Management, Sydney, was founded in 1980 in Melbourne to look after the business affairs of authors around the world, negotiating their contracts and managing their careers.
		Australian Reader AustralianReader.com publishes new fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Australian authors.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /australia_literature.html (164 words)

	The University of Adelaide Library \| Australian literature and culture resources
		Australian Literary Studies is a refereed journal which publishes critical articles on Australian literature.
		The The Australian/Vogel Award is an annual prize of $A20,000 promoted by The Australian newspaper, sponsored by Vogel's Bread, and awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
		It is given annually for the novel or play of the highest literary merit, written by an Australian, presenting aspects of Australian life, and published during the preceding year.
	www.adelaide.edu.au /library/guide/hum/english/E_Aust.html (1900 words)

	Early Australian Literature
		A television series was shown recently on Australian television about Ernest Shackleton’s Expedition to the South Pole in the early years of the twentieth century.
		Only a small number of “modern” works survive the test of time to become part of the treasure-trove of literature; and those that do survive may not have been best-sellers in their time.
		There is a large body of early Australian writing which covers the journals written by early explorers including Sturt, Giles, Leichhardt and Carnegie.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage41/Early-Australian-Literature.html (1230 words)

	Australian Literature - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Australian Literature - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Australian Literature, works of poetry, fiction, or non-fiction produced in written form by writers in or from Australia.
		Jindyworobak, nationalistic Australian literary movement and publishing imprint of the 1930s to 1950s.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Australian_Literature.html (118 words)

	Australian poetry
		The bush is a strong influence in our poetry history with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, the duelling banjos of late 19th century Australian writing, explaining and exploring the Australian landscape in verse, ballads and stories.
		Harris and Dutton went on to become significant figures in Australian literature while Kerr and Pfeiffer, the 'lost Angry Penguins', were killed during World War II.
		Australian poetry is vibrant and alive with poets working across approaches and genres.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/poetry (701 words)

	UNE, CALLS
		The Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies (CALLS) was established in 1989 to promote the research and teaching of Australian Language and Literature, and to encourage Australian writing.
		Our first Director, Shirley Walker, is on the board of the Centre for Australian Literature at Bologna, and has lectured on Australian Literature, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Affairs, in Italy and Hungary, in the U.S.A., and in China.
		We have supplied BFSU with a course in Australian Literature (1992) taught by Michael Sharkey, and in Australian History (1993) taught by Graham Wilson.
	www.une.edu.au /calls (681 words)

	20th - 21st Century sites: Literature: MIT Libraries
		Index of 20th Century American and British Literature (Alphabetical by Author) - pieces range from mere blurbs to scholarly essays.
		The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s - includes an impressive collection of articles and other material from and about American literature, art, politics and sociology of the 1950's.
		Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature - a collection of interactive teaching sites focused on the poetry of World War I. The project is based at Oxford University.
	libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/literature/twentieth.html (731 words)

	Australian Literature
		The Battye Library serves as an archive and repository for published literature and manuscripts.
		An annual prize awarded for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian writer under the age of 35.
		Annual literary awards sponsored by the State Library of Western Australia to celebrate the achievements of Western Australian writers.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /austlit.html (619 words)

	Australian Literature - English - Library - University of Canterbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Australian literature journals available in and through the Library.
		Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
		Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism
	library.canterbury.ac.nz /engl/australian_lit.shtml (412 words)

	Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 2003 Australian Literary Studies - Find Articles
		This is the forty-first annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies.
		Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of books and articles on Australian literature.
		It also fists selectively material in the Australian studies area, and the more important reviews and introductions, studies of Australian language, and new books (with reviews of them) by contemporary writers whose work has attracted substantial discussion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go1948/is_200405/ai_n9559163 (174 words)

	AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
		Covers Australian writers and their works for almost two centuries from 1788 to 1966.
		Notes of Australian Writing, with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function and achievements of the novels in three half-centuries.
		Written by a German woman in 1793, it is the first novel written with an Australian background.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /austlit.htm (1276 words)

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