Modul 11 Australian Literature
Dec 31, 2015
I. Australian Literature Periods Colonial Period
Pastoral Literature Gold Rush Nationalism Literature WWI and WWII Australian Modern Literature Australian Contemporary
Literature
II. Characteristics of Each PeriodsA. Colonial Period
Convicts & Bush Ballads Reflecting hazardous life
of the convicts and bushmen
Narrative Oral songs
Less stressing on the literary values
Poems Referring to English
Romanticism Describing the Nature of
Australia Readers : British People
at UK
FictionFor the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus
Clarke Representing the
life of an innocent convict
B. Pastoral Literature General Characteristics
Bush & Pastoral a Lotus of National
Identity Describing Life in the
Bush & Pastoral & Station
Naib Characters : Drover, Swagman, Bush
Ranger
Poems : Pastoral Ballads Galloping Rhymes
“The Sick Stockrider” by : Adam Lindsay Gordon
Romantized Australian Nature &
Aborigines
Prose : SagaGeoffrey Hamlyn by : Henry
Kingsley Capturing Sheep -
raising life in 1830’s Suggesting the
development of Australian economy
Sheep
C. Gold - Rush Era Melodrama
“The Sunny South” by George Darell
Life in the mine Well - established
economy of Australia Xenophobia towards the
Chinese
Prose Novelists
Edwards Dyson wrote : The Golden Shanty
Henry Handel Richardson pseudonym
Ethel Florence Lindesay
Richardson
D. Nationalism Period General Characteristics
Heroic Figures Main Settings : Bush Masculinity Themes
Prose Henry Lawson = Father of
Australia Prose on Bush Life
The Drover’s Wife The Loaded Dog
Poetry A. B. Banjo Petterson
“The Man from Snowy River”
“Clanay of the Overflow” Henry Lawson
“A Song to the Republic”
E. WW I & WW II General Characteristics
WW I Supporting the British Tragedy Gallipoli Patriotism & Heroism
WW II Alliance with USA Reflacting the Cruelty of
War Xenophobia to the
Japanese Randolph Stow wrote
The Merry Go Round in the Seas (1965)
F. Australian Modern Literature Movement of Modernism on
Australia Literature Female Writers Aborigine Authors Multicultural Literature Bush vs City Themes
Female Writes Miles Franklin : My Brilliant
Career Barbaras Bayton : Squeaker’s
Mate Majurie Barnard : The
Persimmon Tree Judith Wright Glendas Adams : Dancing on
Coral
Aborigine Authors Mudrorou Narogin Odgeroo Noonucal Jack Davis Sally Morgan
Multicultural Literature Immigrant Literature
Greek Germany Japanese