‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s: Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw

摘要

Analyses the aspect of Australian literary history dealing with the production of great works and authors between the Depression in 1929 and the World War II. Description of the canons pervasive in the literary culture of the period; Anxiety of response to the perceived absence of a cultural authority; Discussion of the themes of literature and authors in the period.