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Dallmann, Tino [Verfasser]. "Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction / Tino Dallmann." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1105292754/34.

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Reid, Michelle. "National identity in contemporary Australian and Canadian science fiction." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413934.

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McGuire, Myles T. "Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230862/1/Myles_McGuire_Thesis.pdf.

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"Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction" investigates the application of Historical Materialist ontologies to gay-themed, contemporary Australian novels, examining these subjects through the lens of totality and reification.

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Bach, Lisa [Verfasser]. "Spatial Belonging: Approaching Aboriginal Australian Spaces in Contemporary Fiction / Lisa Bach." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121614284X/34.

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Huggan, Graham. "Territorial disputes : maps and mapping strategies in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29115.

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This dissertation represents an attempt to reflect and account for the diversity of maps and mapping strategies in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. Its methodology, outlined in the opening chapter, draws on a combination of geographical and literary theory, placing particular emphasis on semiotic and other post-structuralist procedures (reconstructing the map as model; deconstructing the map as structure). The map is first defined as a representational model, as an historical document, and as a geopolitical claim. Its status as model, document or claim brings into play a series of

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette Weeda-Zuidersma Jeannette. "Keeping mum representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature : a fictocritical exploration /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054/.

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Ham, Rosalie, and rosalieh@optusnet com au. "Representations of men and women of the bush in Australian fiction." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080110.100527.

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At the heart of this exegesis is the city-bush gap and the rivalry and stereotypes that gap has generated. I acknowledge how and why our national identity evolved from the writing of the 1890s but I argue that most current artists, particularly novelists, have failed to incorporate the ongoing cultural, societal and industrial changes that have occurred since, particularly in the last thirty years. I assert that the majority of artists still refer to and draw inspiration from established, inaccurate myths and stereotypes rather than the bush and Australian characters of today. Through examinin

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Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives

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Emanuel, Elizabeth Frances. "Writing the oriental woman : an examination of the representation of Japanese women in contemporary Australian crime fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/64475/1/Elizabeth_Emanuel_Exegesis.pdf.

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This study considers the challenges in representing women from other cultures in the crime fiction genre. The study is presented in two parts; an exegesis and a creative practice component consisting of a full length crime fiction novel, Batafurai. The exegesis examines the historical period of a section of the novel—post-war Japan—and how the area of research known as Occupation Studies provides an insight into the conditions of women during this period. The exegesis also examines selected postcolonial theory and its exposition of representations of the 'other' as a western construct designed

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Kenny, Laura Jean. ""Something's happening here! Something's awry!": A creative and critical exploration of 'awryness' in contemporary Australian attachment trauma fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210856/1/Laura_Kenny_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led thesis explores how an examination of ‘awryness’—conceptualised as an emotional response to environmental stimuli which is characterised by feelings of disorientation and uncertainty—might generate new ways of thinking about the writing, reading, and interpretation of contemporary Australian attachment trauma fiction. In fiction, awryness occurs when the reader encounters something that is unexpected or difficult to categorise. Writing the novel, On Either Side, alongside textual analysis of three novels, reveals just some of the ways that awryness might be induced or evoked

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Almond, Rosslyn. "Good girls and tough guys, prigs and pornographers: Constructions of gender and sexuality in recent and contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2015. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/54e133835086579963969bc87c8f587fb008b6976879a094c0169df75d054ebb/1599847/201503_ROSSLYN_ALMOND.pdf.

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This dissertation examines in detail the ways in which gender and, as a corollary, sexuality are represented in a selection of contemporary Australian fiction. It encompasses both short stories and novels across a range of genres. The texts I have chosen invite a focus both on the construction of gender in relation to characterisation, and, in turn, on how these constructions can be read as conforming to, or subverting, gender stereotypes—particularly with regard to expressions of sexuality. This thesis comprises analyses of The Mint Lawn (1991) by Gillian Mears, Praise (1992) by Andrew McGaha

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Robb, Simon. "Fictocritical sentences." 2001, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr631.pdf.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-168). CD-ROMs comprise: Appendix A. Family values: fictocritical sentences -- appendix C. Reforming the boy: fictocritical sentences Primarily enacts a fictocritical mapping of local cultural events essentially concerned with crime and trauma in Adelaide. The fictocritical treatment of these events simulates their unresolved or traumatised condition. A secondary concern is the relationship between electronic writing (hypertext) and fictocriticism.

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Liu, Yuanhang. "Reifungsromane vis-à-vis Social Novels about Older Women: A Comparative Study on Fiction about Female Ageing in Contemporary Australian and Chinese Literature." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80628.

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This study focuses on fiction about female ageing since the 1970s as an important literary genre. By conducting a cross-cultural comparison based on the close-reading of the primary texts of two recent literary genres – Reifungsromane in the Australian context and Social Novels about Older Women in the Chinese context – this study contributes to the deeper understanding of female ageing experiences represented in contemporary literature.

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Cruz, Talita Mochiute. "A ficção australiana de J. M. Coetzee: o romance autorreflexivo contemporâneo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-10092015-160114/.

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Esta dissertação propõe uma leitura da chamada ficção australiana de J. M. Coetzee composta por Elizabeth Costello (2003), Homem lento (2005) e Diário de um ano ruim (2007). Esses romances da fase madura do autor compartilham um núcleo de questões estéticas e éticas, configurando um conjunto significativo marcado pela inflexão autorreflexiva. O trabalho acompanha a constituição e a trajetória dos escritores-personagens Elizabeth Costello e Señor C, discutindo como a inserção do recurso do duplo do escritor desestabiliza as noções de autor, personagem e narrador, além de borrar os limites entre

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Truter, Victoria Zea. "Dreamscape and death : an analysis of three contemporary novels and a film." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012976.

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With its focus on the relationship between dreamscape and death, this study examines the possibility of indirectly experiencing – through writing and dreaming – that which cannot be directly experienced, namely death. In considering this possibility, the thesis engages at length with Maurice Blanchot's argument that death, being irrevocably absent and therefore unknowable, is not open to presentation or representation. After explicating certain of this thinker's theories on the ambiguous nature of literary and oneiric representation, and on the forfeiture of subjective agency that occurs in th

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Cain, Lara Anne. "Reading Culture : the translation and transfer of Australianness in contemporary fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15785/1/Lara_Cain_Thesis.pdf.

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The dual usage of 'reading' in the title evokes the nature of this study. This thesis will analyse the ways in which people 'read' (make sense of/produce) images of culture as they approach translated novels. Part of this analysis is the examination of what informs the 'reading culture' of a given community; that is, the conditions in which readers and texts exist, or the ways in which readers are able to access texts. Understanding of the depictions of culture found in a novel is influenced by publicity and promotion, educational institutions, book stores, funding bodies and other links betwe

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Cain, Lara Anne. "Reading Culture: the translation and transfer of Australianness in contemporary fiction." Queensland University of Technology, 2001. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15785/.

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The dual usage of &171;reading&171; in the title evokes the nature of this study. This thesis will analyse the ways in which people &171;reading&171; (make sense of/produce) images of culture as they approach translated novels. Part of this analysis is the examination of what informs the &171;reading culture&171; of a given community; that is, the conditions in which readers and texts exist, or the ways in which readers are able to access texts. Understanding of the depictions of culture found in a novel is influenced by publicity and promotion, educational institutions, book stores, funding b

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Staniforth, Martin John. "Re-imagining the convicts : history, myth and nation in contemporary Australian fictions of early convictism." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10463/.

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This thesis examines the way in which a number of contemporary Australian novels use the contested figure of the early convict to reflect on, and participate in, the recent heated debates over Australian history and culture. It argues that while these novels represent an attempt to challenge the traditional narrative of the nation’s past promulgated by the Anglo-Celtic settler population, they predominantly reproduce rather than overturn the myths and stories that have been the hallmark of settler Australia. I examine the novels in three overlapping contexts: in relation to the way in which Au

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Holliday, Penny. "The shifting city : a study of contemporary fictional representations Of Melbourne's inner and outer suburban spaces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103101/4/Penelope_Holliday_Thesis.pdf.

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This project explores the complexity of Melbourne’s inner and outer suburban spaces as portrayed within contemporary Melbourne fiction. The study is a textual analysis of the works of several Melbourne writers whose writings feature their city’s suburbs as significant sites in the exploration of the relationship between identity and place. I argue that Melbourne, as a city of suburbs, is a paradigm worthy of writerly and critical attention. The fictional texts are Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap (2008), Sonya Hartnett’s Butterfly (2009), Steven Carroll’s novel The Time We Have Taken (2007) and Wa

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Dagg, Samantha. "Still digging: from grunge to post-grunge in Australian fiction." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342404.

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Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>The Minimum of Getting By is a collection of short fiction in the dirty realist style, set in the urban environment of contemporary Australia. The collection centres on the inner lives of a cast of marginalised characters, all of whom are stuck in some way – in bad relationships, in self-destructive patterns, in the past, in their own heads. There is rarely much in the way of narrative action but, when it does occur, it is often cyclic, returning the characters emotionally, if not physically, to the same place from which they began. The manusc

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Collier, Stella Catherine Juliet. "'Long strange ride' & The lure of the road in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/43434.

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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.<br>NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. Access is restricted indefinitely. The hardcopy may be available for consultation at the UTS Library.<br>The journey is an age-old literary device and its contemporary manifestation, the road story, is more commonly told through the medium of cinema. Can such a clichéd narrative structure tell us anything new? What makes an Australian road novel uniquely Australian and can it ever be more than a pale imitation of its American counterparts? The creative portion of my Master of Creative Arts thesis

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Lynn, Jenna-Lee Delle. "Negotiating dark matter: trauma and ecology in the fiction of contemporary Australian women writers." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407778.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis examines Janette Turner Hospital’s novels within the context of sites and expressions of trauma: locally, nationally and globally. Its focus is on rereading representations of trauma that destabilise dominant discourses about memory, place, nationality, community and gender. This dissertation also argues for a new interpretative paradigm for reading texts that deal with trauma and proposes a lens comprising eco-feminism and trauma theory. The framework I have created explores the phenomenon of trauma in literature as one of the def

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Lovat, Amy Terese. "Halfway to nowhere: liminal female journeys as "coming of awareness" in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322136.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis contains a novella, Halfway to Nowhere, and an accompanying exegesis. Halfway to Nowhere: Liminal Female Journeys as “Coming of Awareness” in Contemporary Australian Fiction is an exegetical response to the creative artefact that draws on literary theory, close reading of texts, and self-reflexive questioning to understand how the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood is represented in examples of contemporary Australian fiction. I align myself with my protagonist, El, as caught between two recognised life stages, and use

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Gabriel, Matthew. "Deterrence vivarium: a collection of stories and exegesis." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/105381.

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The thesis Deterrence Vivarium is made up of a creative component and an exegesis. The creative component is a collection of eight pieces of fiction ranging in style and length, from microfictions to short stories and concluding with a novella. The opening story “Amsterdam” begins with the protagonist attempting to deal with the disintegration and loss of a relationship. The world around them reflects this sense of decay and the central character’s helplessness in taking control in a world whose threat encroaches upon his very perception of the physical space around him. The story “ONFF” follo

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Davidson, Kristy Lee. "Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21487/.

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The methods of production of gender diverse characters within mainstream literary texts are an under-researched area from a creative writing standpoint. Is That What You’re Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the signifiers and tropes that are employed to produce gender diversity in contemporary fiction, and their effects and impacts. The exegesis, Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, contextualises the theoretical ground concerning gender diversity. It critically explores issues

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Flanagan, Willanski Cassie. "Here where we live: the evolution of contemporary white Australian writers’ responses to white settler status." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85506.

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It is proposed that Australians of white settler heritage writing on the subject of Indigenous Australians in the period from the early 20th Century to the present day take a combination of three common approaches. The “haunted”, “contemporary representations” and “stepping back” approaches represent an evolving attitude in contemporary white Australian writing on Indigenous themes. This evolution occurs in a rough chronological order, however within this chronology the writing may exhibit a fluidity, moving back and forth between the three approaches. Texts by Patrick White and Judith Wright

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Dalley, Hamish. "Postcolonialism and the historical novel : allegorical realism and contemporary literature of the past in Nigeria, Australia and New Zealand." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155168.

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The historical novel is one of the most prominent modes of contemporary writing in the former British Empire, yet the genre's postcolonial variant has not been the subject of critical analysis in its own right. This neglect can be explained by the dominance of a "resistance paradigm" in postcolonial studies, which tends to equate realism with naive mimesis and thus treats the historical novel as either a vehicle for imperialist ideology or a site of discursive conflict over the meaning of the past. As a result, the genre's epistemological and aesthetic complexities have been marginalised. This

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Atherfold, Joanna. "Watermark: a short story cycle." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309822.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Watermark is a short story cycle exploring intergenerational and personal relationships in coastal communities. The stories observe the complexity of characters drawn together, but also separated, by family, topography and circumstance. Written to reflect experiences from the 1960s through to present times, the stories reveal individuals responding to the uncertainty and disorder of life-changing events and unexpected revelations. Located in a quintessentially Australian landscape, the characters transgress physical and metaphorical boundaries

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Muirden, Sallie. "We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel." Thesis, 2001. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18195/.

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This Master of Arts thesis is in two parts : a novel, We Too Shall Be Mothers, (WTSBM) and an exegesis which positions the novel in relation to several strands of contemporary theory and fiction. The novel is set during the French Revolution in the southern French city of Avignon and in Vienna, the capital of the Hapsburg Empire. WTSBM tells the story of a fictional nun, Marie-France, who leaves her Carmelite convent and embarks on a journey towards motherhood and fully sexualised adulthood. The exegesis contains three main strands of theorisation. First, it illustrates the profound in

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Garretson, Anna. "Unsettling fictions : contemporary white writing from South Africa and Australia." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151206.

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Farca, Paula Anca. "Roots to routes contemporary indigenous fiction by women writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand /." 2009. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/Farca_okstate_0664D_10631.pdf.

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