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Geoffrey Dutton (1922–1998)
Teoksen The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books tekijä
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The innovators: The Sydney alternatives in the rise of modern art, literature, and ideas (1986) 11 kappaletta
The Australian heroes : a rousing roll call of 47 of Australia's greatest heroes and heroines (1981) 6 kappaletta
On My Island 3 kappaletta
Night flight and sunrise 2 kappaletta
Lectures on North Queensland History 1974-1975 2 kappaletta
States of the Union 2 kappaletta
The Australian bedside book : a selection of writings from The Australian literary supplement (1987) 2 kappaletta
Flowers & Fury : poems 2 kappaletta
Australian Poetry, 1962 2 kappaletta
A Long Way South. An account of a journey by car from London to Australia. With plates (1953) 2 kappaletta
Australia’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation (Vol 3 Part 40); Uprising at the Eureka Stockade 1 kappale
Long Way South, A: (London to Adelaide) 1 kappale
Australia and the Monarchy 1 kappale
Sir Henry, Bjelke, Don Baby and Friends 1 kappale
Paintngs of S. T. Gill 1 kappale
The Beach 1 kappale
The Great War Australia since the camera 1 kappale
Antipodes in shoes 1 kappale
Night fishing 1 kappale
Australian Letters (vol. 7, no. 3, 1966) 1 kappale
Tisi and the yabby 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Dutton, Geoffrey Piers Henry
- Syntymäaika
- 1922-08-02
- Kuolinaika
- 1998-09-17
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Australia
- Syntymäpaikka
- Anlaby, South Australia, Australia
- Kuolinpaikka
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Asuinpaikat
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Koulutus
- University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
University of Adelaide - Ammatit
- lecturer (English)
editor
historian - Suhteet
- Dutton, Ninette (wife|divorced)
- Organisaatiot
- Royal Australian Air Force (WWII)
Penguin Australia (founding editor)
Adelaide University (Senior Lecturer in English, 953-1962) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Order of Australia (Officer ∙ 1976)
Visiting Fellow, University of Leeds
Visiting Professor, Kansas State University
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It's a delicate five stars because a) the book is inevitably dated after 35 years, and b) no-one is going to agree with all of the options. Unfortunately, those 35 years mean an awful lot when it comes to multicultural and gender representative literature. At the same time, Dutton was always of the "new school of thought" and he proactively notes that about a third of the books included deal directly with Australia's Indigenous population or their history.
Nevertheless, with those caveats aside, this is sublime. Each book is given a generous discussion as well as a short excerpt and a biography of the author. Dutton reaches back to the very first settlers, examining the more moral men and women who - unfortunately - were not always heard by those in power during our country's complicated past. He restricts himself to one book per author which, although it means some tough decisions with authors like Thea Astley and Patrick White, allows him to run through a wide spectrum. Importantly, this is a luxurious read, happy to delve into all sorts of areas of the public consciousness, and it reminds me how, even as someone with a university education in literature, my knowledge of my own country's literature is average at best. A worthy find.… (lisätietoja)