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Approaching Australia

Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium

Approaching Australia( )
Editor: Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
Bolitho, Harold
Series title:Harvard Committee on Australian Studies
ISBN:978-0-674-04189-9
Publication Date:Feb 1999
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $95.95
Book Description:

These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. As they discuss poetry and politics, nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization, they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive Australian entity, and the contribution to it of the U.S.

Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: History / Australia & New Zealand
Political Science / International Relations / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.52 x 2.29 x 0.15 cm
Book Weight:19.52 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)


Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe is an Australian poet born in Melbourne, 1934. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and The University of Melbourne. He is a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. He is also an essayist and a critic of the visual arts. His awards include: Centenary Medal in 2002, Doctor of Letters honoris causa 2006, and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 2011. He won the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015. This award is presented every three years to a Victorian author 'whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature, as well as to cultural and intellectual life.

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