Part 1: Identities -- Part 2: Writing across time -- Part 3: International reputations -- Part 4: Writers and regions -- Part 5: Beyond the canon.
Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2008
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How to do justice to this gem? Any brief treatment of this
comprehensive, richly varied companion threatens to lapse into a
shopping list of its astonishing range of subjects. ...
Essential.
*CHOICE*
[...] The felt need for literary history as a complex kind of
social history and thermometer of present times remains strong.
[...] Newest of the histories is the estimable A Companion to
Australian Literature Since 1900.... [which] will be used in
libraries with profit and enjoyment....
*AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW*
BR> This is a fine book, beautifully edited, readable and full
of interest. Scholarly and lively, this Companion should be widely
used.
*JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN
LITERATURE*
[An] outstanding, reader-friendly volume.... [Follows a] tradition
of instilling in international readers the love of Australian
literature and the determination to keep up to date with the latest
trends in literary criticism.
*OVERLAND*
Birns and McNeer have done an excellent job in compiling a volume
that combines the necessary survey work with politically and
theoretically informed readings of key texts and movements.
*AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY STUDIES*
[L]ikely to prove very useful for undergraduate students and
perhaps even general readers.
*YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES*
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