On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
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Category: Literary Studies
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
The Crucible sparksnotes by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide
When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. Lively and ac ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: QE78
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
In Their Branches: Stories from ABC Radio National's Trees Project by MILLER, GRETCHEN
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Category: Literary Studies
A very special collection of over one hundred stories, memories, and reflections on trees that have had a special meaning in the lives of Australians, from ABC RN. We all have a favourite tree. We scaled their trunks in childhood, planted their saplings in memory of someone we loved, and carried their s ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Literary Studies
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 75, No 3 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Literary Studies
"Not the marrying kind? You're not alone. As Lauren Rosewarnereports, more the 40 percent of Australian women between 25 and 64 are single. By choice? By design? By circumstance? For better? For worse? Lauren takes a deeply personal look at a phenomenon that is quietly reshaping our world. The facts are ...Show more
Prayers of a Secular World by Jordie Albiston
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Category: Literary Studies
A collection of prayers written by Australian poets expressing praise, thanksgiving, joy and sadness, faith and doubt in the existence of any kind of god, and forgiveness for our human frailties.
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Literary Studies
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Beginning Postcolonialism by John McLeod
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Beginnings
Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this ...Show more
Inferior - The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
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Category: Literary Studies
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an e ...Show more
Chaser Quarterly: Issue 12: Spring 2018, The by The Chaser
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Category: Literary Studies
On 26 January 1788 a bunch of old white men arrived in Australia and started ruining it for everyone. 240 years later, Australia is a completely different country, still being ruined by old white men. The Chaser Quarterly has compiled a diverse array of Australia's least eminent historians, Charles Firt ...Show more