| Description |
xi, 336 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
DesLibris. Books collection
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| Contents |
PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 IMAGE/SELF-IMAGE; 3 COMING INTO THE COUNTRY; 4 ALTERNATIVE READINGS; 5 AFTER WORDS; APPENDIX A: "Voice in the Wilderness": A Note on Grounds and Precedents; APPENDIX B: Notes on Selected Australian Novels; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
What this book represents is, quite literally, a "slice" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in its challenge to uniformitarianism, is a test case in ethnographic theory. Using methods ranging from the hermeneutic through the structuralist to the psychoanalytic, McGregor deploys the self-evidence of communal life and language to establish not only that all cultural phenomena are "patterned," but that th |
| Analysis |
Australia Civilization |
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Australia Intellectual life |
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Australian literature History and criticism |
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National characteristics, Australian |
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Popular culture Australia |
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Australian literature |
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Comparisons |
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Culture |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 310-330 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Popular culture -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863 -- 1976-1990
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Australia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863
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Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
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Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1976-
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Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1976-1990
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| Author |
McGregor, Gaile, 1943-
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| LC no. |
94232749 |
| ISBN |
088920229X |
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