Australian Autobiography - The Personal Quest
Author(s): John Colmer
Literary - Theory, References, Criticism | Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Letters
This pioneering work traces the personal quest of a number of twentieth-century autobiographers and how they have discovered the truth about themselves and their place in Australian society. The volume offers fresh readings of popular works by Hal Porter, Donald Horne, Patrick White, A.B.
Facey, and Sally Morgan, among others, and identifies different types of autobiographical writing within the context of recent sociological and literary theory.
Good condition. Light tanning on first and last pages and on outside page edges. Name inscribed at top of inside front cover page.
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- : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- : 0.2
- : 01 May 1990
- : .391 Inches X 5 Inches X 7.69 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Colmer
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 820.9492
- : 174