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A collection of literature and commentary on Australian culture in the mid-twentieth century.

Table of Contents
  • Encounter With Australia (Joseph Jones)
  • Nonfiction
    • In Search of an Australian Frontier (Mary Durack)
    • The Heritage of Gold (George Farwell)
    • Engineering in Australia (Geoffrey Drake-Brockman)
    • Domesticating a Continent (Henrietta Drake-Brockman)
    • Architecture in Australia (Robin Boyd)
    • The Australian Book (Andrew Fabinyi)
    • The Twenty-One Lives of Meanjin Quarterly (C. B. Christesen)
    • The Red Page Rhadamanthus. A. G. Stephens (T. Inglis Moore)
    • "Bellerive," Australia's Worst Poet (Douglas Stewart)
    • Australian Painting and Sculpture Today (Elwyn Lynn)
    • Work in Progress. Chapters From an Autobiography (Alan Marshall)
    • Up From the Dust. One Aspect of the Aboriginal (Donald R. Stuart)
    • Joan sutherland. A Photographice Essay (Hans Beacham)
    • Some Recent Australian Plays (R. F. Brissenden)
    • Douglas Stewart and the Art of the Radio Play (Harold J. Oliver)
  • Fiction
    • Period Piece on the 'Fields (Lyndall Hadow)
    • The Minister for Thingamejig (Gavin Casey)
    • Great-Aunt Fanny's Picnic (Hal Porter)
    • Lenny (Flexmore Hudson)
    • The Varieties of Religious experience (Desmond O'Grady)
  • Poetry
    • Festival at Santa Cruz (James McAuley)
    • Man (Mary Gilmore)
    • Life (Mary Gilmore)
    • Mud (John Blight)
    • Fence (Douglas Stewart)
    • The Rabbiter (Rosemary Dobson)
    • Tocsin (Robert D. Fitzgerald)
    • The Other Half (Judith Wright)
    • Brush-Turkey (Judith Wright)
    • Words for Wyatt's Lute (David Campbell)
    • Mothers and Daughters (David Campbell)
    • A Little Marriage Ode (Evan Jones)
    • A Voice From Inside (Evan Jones)
    • Address to the Pure Scholars (Evan Jones)
    • Conversation with Calliope (A. D. Hope)
  • Illustrations
    • Architecture in Australia
    • Art in Australia
    • Joan Sutherland
  • About the Contributors

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1962
      ISBN13: 9780292744240, 978-0292744240
      ISBN10: 0292744242

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of literature and commentary on Australian culture in the mid-twentieth century.

      Table of Contents
      • Encounter With Australia (Joseph Jones)
      • Nonfiction
        • In Search of an Australian Frontier (Mary Durack)
        • The Heritage of Gold (George Farwell)
        • Engineering in Australia (Geoffrey Drake-Brockman)
        • Domesticating a Continent (Henrietta Drake-Brockman)
        • Architecture in Australia (Robin Boyd)
        • The Australian Book (Andrew Fabinyi)
        • The Twenty-One Lives of Meanjin Quarterly (C. B. Christesen)
        • The Red Page Rhadamanthus. A. G. Stephens (T. Inglis Moore)
        • "Bellerive," Australia's Worst Poet (Douglas Stewart)
        • Australian Painting and Sculpture Today (Elwyn Lynn)
        • Work in Progress. Chapters From an Autobiography (Alan Marshall)
        • Up From the Dust. One Aspect of the Aboriginal (Donald R. Stuart)
        • Joan sutherland. A Photographice Essay (Hans Beacham)
        • Some Recent Australian Plays (R. F. Brissenden)
        • Douglas Stewart and the Art of the Radio Play (Harold J. Oliver)
      • Fiction
        • Period Piece on the 'Fields (Lyndall Hadow)
        • The Minister for Thingamejig (Gavin Casey)
        • Great-Aunt Fanny's Picnic (Hal Porter)
        • Lenny (Flexmore Hudson)
        • The Varieties of Religious experience (Desmond O'Grady)
      • Poetry
        • Festival at Santa Cruz (James McAuley)
        • Man (Mary Gilmore)
        • Life (Mary Gilmore)
        • Mud (John Blight)
        • Fence (Douglas Stewart)
        • The Rabbiter (Rosemary Dobson)
        • Tocsin (Robert D. Fitzgerald)
        • The Other Half (Judith Wright)
        • Brush-Turkey (Judith Wright)
        • Words for Wyatt's Lute (David Campbell)
        • Mothers and Daughters (David Campbell)
        • A Little Marriage Ode (Evan Jones)
        • A Voice From Inside (Evan Jones)
        • Address to the Pure Scholars (Evan Jones)
        • Conversation with Calliope (A. D. Hope)
      • Illustrations
        • Architecture in Australia
        • Art in Australia
        • Joan Sutherland
      • About the Contributors

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