Australian Short Fiction: A History.Australian Short Fiction: A History by Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett (May 19 1906 - February 24 2007) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name of Herman Brix. University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, a member of Australia's Group of Eight, and the Sandstone Universities. It is also a founding member of the international Universitas 21 organisation. Press, 2002. $30.00 Short Stories receive very little study except for the introductions in Anthologies. They have been and still are an important part of Australian Literature Australian literature, the literature of Australia. Because the vast majority of early Australian settlers were transported prisoners, the beginnings of Australian literature were oral rather than written. . In the nineteenth century they were often the only way Australian authors could make their writings known to Australian readers. Even today short stories are the only way new authors can fight their way into the consciousness of readers who are pounded with reading matter from newspaper and periodical articles on every sort of subject. Fiction now takes a very second or third place. Professor Bennett has rescued many of our past writers of short fiction from the depths of libraries and discusses their successes in that form. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially he put forward for consideration many of our earliest writers both male and female. The nineteenth century take its important place in the book. I need only mention such writers as John Lang John Lang may refer to several people:
Bennett takes us through the twentieth century authors in detail under such headings as Local loyalties, Politics, Location and Story Telling. The contemporary writers of the 1970s with their 'Days of wine, Rage' and Bennett concludes with the theme 'Home and Away' the fide of a recent colloquium col·lo·qui·um n. pl. col·lo·qui·ums or col·lo·qui·a 1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views. 2. An academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting. held in Canberra. There is a coda on the State of the Art [of Short Fiction] with Preoccupation's and Challenges, Black Writing, Travel, Journeys and then Crime and Science Fiction. It is a truly comprehensive voyage through the seas of Australian literature. He has named many writers in his acknowledgements and states that he is an 'inveterate reader of short stories'. VC |
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