Social Patterns in Australian LiteratureThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971. |
Contents
Preface vii | 14 |
The Social Element in Literature I | 15 |
The Ecology of an Ethos | 23 |
The People and the Land | 46 |
The Spell of the Bush | 67 |
The Clash of Cultures | 92 |
Realism | 117 |
The Cry of the Crow | 144 |
The Keynote of Irony | 171 |
The Creed of Mateship | 202 |
Radical Democracy | 238 |
ΧΙ The Great Australian Dream | 265 |
The Palingenesis of Pan | 291 |
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