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The magic phrase : critical essays on Christina Stead / edited by Margaret Harris.

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in Australian literature (St. Lucia, Qld.)Publication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2000.Description: xiv, 305 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0702225061
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.2 21
Review: "This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published. The essays, representing a range of critical approaches to Stead's fiction, by Australian, North American and English critics, deal with Stead's work from her first published fiction, The Salzburg Tales (1934), to the posthumous I'm Dying Laughing (1986). The selection foregrounds discussion of her masterpiece, The Man Who Loved Children (1940)."--BOOK JACKET.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 823.2 MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64340

Includes index.

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"This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published. The essays, representing a range of critical approaches to Stead's fiction, by Australian, North American and English critics, deal with Stead's work from her first published fiction, The Salzburg Tales (1934), to the posthumous I'm Dying Laughing (1986). The selection foregrounds discussion of her masterpiece, The Man Who Loved Children (1940)."--BOOK JACKET.

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