| Description |
xxi, 283 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1 Frank Moorehouse in conversation with Laurie Hergenhan. -- Kate Grenville in conversation with Bruce Bennett. -- Patricia Grace in conversation with Lydia Wevers. -- Bill Manhire in conversation with Claudio Gorlier. -- Sia Figiel: an oceanic voice in performance. -- 2 George Egerton: a "new woman" from the new worlds / Carla de Petris -- Letters from Byron's Bay: Amy Witting's private conversations / Rita di Giuseppe -- Coping with a man's world: women in Henry Handel Richardson and Kate Grenville's stories / Annalisa Pes -- Continuities / discontinuities in Frank Moorhouse's stories / Angelo Righetti -- Bill Manhire's South Pacific: a poet's experiments with the short story / Daniela Carpi -- A re-reading of Bluebeard's Fairy Tale in Jane Campion's The Piano / Chiara Battisti -- Screaming silence: language and fear in Janet Frame's short fiction / Susanna Zinato -- The challenge of linguistic-cultural hybridity in Patricia Grace's short stories / Marta Degani -- "Indigenising English": linguistic categories in Albert Wendt's Captain Full / Anna Zanfei -- Stories as islands: Epeli Hau'ofa's Tales of the Tikongs / Maria Teresa Bindella -- Albert Wendt's Flying fox in a freedom tree: contagious infection and regional dissenting bodies / Yvonne Bezrucka |
| Notes |
At head of title: Saggi e testi |
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Transcribed conversations with authors, and papers read during a colloquium at the University of Verona, Italy, 20, 21 and 22 April 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Short stories, New Zealand -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Short stories, Australian -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Pacific Island fiction (English) -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century.
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Authors, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Righetti, Angelo.
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Università di Verona. Dipartimento di Anglistica
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| ISBN |
8885033490 paperback |
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