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Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785270987

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Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine by Paul Sharrad Pdf

Booker Prize winner and Living National Treasure, Thomas Keneally still divides critical opinion: he is both a morally challenging stylist and a commercial hack, a wise commentator on society and a garrulous leprechaun. Such judgements are located in the cultural politics of Australia but also linked to ideas about what a literary career should look like. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ charts Keneally’s production and reception across his three major markets, noting clashes between national interests and international reach, continuity of themes and variety of topics, settings and genres, the writer’s interests and the publishers’ push to create a brand, celebrity fame and literary reputation, and the tussle around fiction, history, allegory and the middlebrow. Keneally is seen as playing a long game across several events rather than honing one specialist skill, a strategy that has sustained for more than 50 years his ambition to earn a living from writing.

Schindler's List

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476750484

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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally Pdf

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author. An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009093200

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The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel by David Carter Pdf

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

Transnational Spaces of India and Australia

Author : Paul Sharrad,Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030813253

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Transnational Spaces of India and Australia by Paul Sharrad,Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay Pdf

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of ‘home and away’. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.

The Daughters of Mars

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476734637

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The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally Pdf

In what is perhaps “the best novel of his career” (The Spectator), the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List tells the unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first world war. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father’s farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Amid the carnage, the sisters’ tenuous bond strengthens as they bravely face extreme danger and hostility—sometimes from their own side. There is great humor and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the incredible women they serve alongside. In France, each meets an exceptional man, the kind for whom she might relinquish her newfound independence—if only they all survive. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars is a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad.

Literary Careers in the Modern Era

Author : Guy Davidson,Nicola Evans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137478504

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Literary Careers in the Modern Era by Guy Davidson,Nicola Evans Pdf

This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era.

Shame and the Captives

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444781298

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Shame and the Captives by Thomas Keneally Pdf

On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a prisoner in Europe, becomes drawn to the Italian soldier sent to work on her father-in-law's farm. The camp commander and his deputy, each concealing a troubled private life, are disunited. And both fatally misread their Japanese captives, who burn with shame at being taken alive. The stage is set for a clash of cultures that has explosive, far-reaching consequences.

Bring Larks and Heroes

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504038065

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Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally Pdf

Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world’s end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man, poet and lover, attempts to make a home for himself while confronting the demands of his secret bride, a convict-artist, his Irish comrades, and his own conscience. Can he overcome the hellish, sun-parched landscape to believe in something greater than his own existence?

The Secret River

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459620032

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The Secret River by Kate Grenville Pdf

'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...

Bettany's Book

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444784152

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Bettany's Book by Thomas Keneally Pdf

'A work of towering authority: large in scope; rich in detail; overflowing with ripe humanity . . . more than an engrossing novel: it is a stirring one.' Sunday Telegraph An enthralling novel from Thomas Keneally, set in Australia and the Sudan, and spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. When Dimp Bettany, a Sydney film producer, comes into possession of her ancestor John Bettany's journals, she believes she has finally found the subject of her next masterpiece. Even her more detached sister Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, becomes intrigued as the story unfolds of how John Bettany carved out a living in the wilds of New South Wales in the 1840s, and of the internment in the notorious Female Factory of Sarah Bernard, the convict woman he was destined to meet. As John's and Sarah's paths converge, each sister finds her life cast in a new and galvanising light.

Three Cheers for the Paraclete

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504038706

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Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally Pdf

A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. Peter’s the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when he’s trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the strictures of the Church—a conflict that threatens to unravel his faith and his life. A fastidious and darkly satirical novel, with moments of warm humor, Three Cheers for the Paraclete won Thomas Keneally his second Miles Franklin Award.

Paper Empires

Author : Craig Munro
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0702235733

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Paper Empires by Craig Munro Pdf

This book tells the inside story of Australian publishing over the past half-century.

Paper Empires, 1946-2005

Author : Craig Munro,Robyn Sheahan-Bright
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780702242151

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Paper Empires, 1946-2005 by Craig Munro,Robyn Sheahan-Bright Pdf

Annotation " ... It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book ... or would like to discover to discover something of the complexity of the well-springs of the Australian psyche." Biblionews Paper Empires explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates.

The Dickens Boy

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781982169145

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The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally Pdf

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler's List and the "complex and mesmerizing" (The Christian Science Monitor) Napoleon's Last Island is at his triumphant best with this vibrant and engaging novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens's son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other side of the world, Edward encounters the same rabid veneration of his father that exists in England. But Edward has a secret: he has never read a single word of his father's beloved writing. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this rollicking, high-spirited tale offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia's indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eye of his exiled son.

The Tyrant's Novel

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444783223

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The Tyrant's Novel by Thomas Keneally Pdf

Imagine a Middle-Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until he is made an offer he can't refuse. He must write a great novel, telling of the suffering of his people under the enemy's cruel economic sanctions and portraying Great Uncle as their saviour. This masterpiece must be completed in time for its international debut in three months - or else. If the writer cannot - or will not - meet the tyrant's deadline, he and anyone he cares for will pay the ultimate price. Stark, terrifying and utterly compelling, THE TYRANT'S NOVEL is both a gripping thriller and a chilling glimpse of a fictional world that seems all too real.