00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862466853 Buklod 20240326052604.0 m | | ta 240326s1992 weaab rb |000 0|eng d 0864222211 (iLib)UPBAG-00045217795 OCLC BAG rda eng PN 56.5 H45 M98 1992 Myths, heroes and anti-heroes essays on the literature and culture of the Asia-Pacific region edited by Bruce Bennett & Dennis Haskell. Nedlands, Western Australia The Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia 1992. viii, 217 pages illustrations, maps 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Introduction / Bruce Bennett and Dennis Haskell -- Some Maori versions of pastoral / Ken Arvidson -- Two corroborees : constructions of myth by Katharine Susannah Prichard and Mudrooroo / Sue Hosking -- Heroes against empire : reading aboriginal texts / Veronica Brady -- The myth of divine kingship in Malay history / Sharifah Maznah Syed Omar -- Myths, heroes and anti-heroes in Japanese culture / Orie Muta -- Disguising desire : gender and imperialism in Jill Shearer's Shimada / Leigh Dale & Helen Gilbert -- The writing of heroism : Conrad, Clifford and Swettenham / Ban Kah Choon -- The politics of pathology : Wong Phui Nam's Remembering grandma and other rumours / Chin Woon Ping -- 'Heroines' in Australian fiction : myths of adolescence / Richard Rossiter --Constructing the female hero : Keri Hulme's The bone people / Suzette Henke -- Adam Lindsay Gordon as hero / Martin Gray -- The heroism of comedy : Smith's weekly in the 1930s / Dennis Haskell -- Tracing Emily of Emerald Hill : subject positioning in performance / Jacqueline Lo -- Myths of a nation : history as narrative invention in David Malouf's The great world / Amanda Nettelbeck -- 'Unhappy the land that has a need of heroes' : John Romeril's Asian plays / Gareth Griffiths -- Fugitives and prisoners : narratives of escape / Leong Liew Geok -- Notes on the writing of Po-On / F. Sionil Jose -- The heroic type in Australian nationalist autobiography / Joan Newman -- Roro Mendut : the past and the present / Susi Sunarya -- Don Bradman : that inscrutable object of adulation / R.S. White -- The Mahabharata and modern fiction / Satendra Nandan -- The fox and the swan (poem) / Vikram Seth. Heroes in literature. Antiheroes in literature. Myth in literature. Australian literature History and criticism. Oriental literature (English) History and criticism. Bennett, Bruce 1941- editor. Haskell, Dennis 1948- editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PN 56.5 H45 M98 1992 Book