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Australia in the Twenty-first Century

Stephen Knight

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
04 November 2019

Cultural studies; Australian Society

Where is analysis in this age of banal tweets and narcissistic comments? Stephen Knight turns his modernly analytical and historically aware mind to current attitudes and actions in need of serious examination.

What is the impact of the bush myth on the national consciousness of Australian fiction? What of the modern shift in writing about Indigenous issues, from white writers to First Peoples? What has suddenly happened to Australian crime fiction?

Other essays look at unravelling travelling, the tiny machines that obsess us, then those bizarrely flourishing modern identity-enhancers—tattoos and personalised number plates—and of course, the state of the contemporary university.

Here is 21st century national complexity, its origins and its international connections, explored in a socially referential and almost always serious way.

By: Stephen Knight
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780522874679
ISBN 10: 0522874673
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 04 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Knight is a Professor of Literature who worked for twenty-five years at the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, becoming well known as an international scholar of the byways of literature, such as medieval romance and modern crime fiction. His published works include The Politics of Myth (2015) and Australian Crime Fiction- A 200-Year History (2018). He is now an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne.