Laurie Clancy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3968116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie Clancy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie |
| FAMILY NAME | Clancy |
| SIGNATURE | CLANCY L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Culture and customs of Australia
Americans' generally superficial familiarity with the Australian continent stems mostly from recent films. Particular images stand out: the Outback, sheep shearing, surfing, the Sydney Opera House, Aborigines, and the Walkabout. Yet Europeans arrived in the late 18th century, followed by convict transports from England that started the colonization. Today Australia remains a land of immigrants, and its ethnically diverse population has increased …
Culture and Customs of Australia
Students and other interested readers finally have a solid resource that describes the breadth of the evolving modern Australian society.Culture and Customs of Australiais the first general introduction to the rugged continent, written by an Australian novelist with particular insight. Clancy focuses on the Anglo-Irish and more recent immigrants, but the Aboriginal context is also presented. Americans' generally superficial familiarity with the A…
The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Fathers and Lovers
Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966) by Elizabeth Harrower--which â are strikingly similar in that they have at their heart a male figure who acts in a distructive way towards the women around him; all three of the male protagonists disguise their egotistic aggression under forms of pretended love â ¦ and in all three the victi…
Editors’ Statements [Laurie Clancy]
Fathers and Lovers
Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966) by Elizabeth Harrower--which â are strikingly similar in that they have at their heart a male figure who acts in a distructive way towards the women around him; all three of the male protagonists disguise their egotistic aggression under forms of pretended love â ¦ and in all three the victi…
Editors’ Statements [Laurie Clancy]
Fathers and Lovers
Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966) by Elizabeth Harrower--which â are strikingly similar in that they have at their heart a male figure who acts in a distructive way towards the women around him; all three of the male protagonists disguise their egotistic aggression under forms of pretended love â ¦ and in all three the victi…
The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Culture and Customs of Australia
Students and other interested readers finally have a solid resource that describes the breadth of the evolving modern Australian society.Culture and Customs of Australiais the first general introduction to the rugged continent, written by an Australian novelist with particular insight. Clancy focuses on the Anglo-Irish and more recent immigrants, but the Aboriginal context is also presented. Americans' generally superficial familiarity with the A…
Culture and customs of Australia
Americans' generally superficial familiarity with the Australian continent stems mostly from recent films. Particular images stand out: the Outback, sheep shearing, surfing, the Sydney Opera House, Aborigines, and the Walkabout. Yet Europeans arrived in the late 18th century, followed by convict transports from England that started the colonization. Today Australia remains a land of immigrants, and its ethnically diverse population has increased …
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (2 works) · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (2 works)