Explorations in Australian LiteratureJaydeep Sarangi, Binod Mishra |
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... Fringe of Leaves . Set in the early years of white settlement , it tells the story of Ellen Roxburgh , a Cornish farm girl who has married into the gentry and visits Hobart and Sydney with her hypochondriac , bookish husband . On their ...
... Fringe of Leaves . Set in the early years of white settlement , it tells the story of Ellen Roxburgh , a Cornish farm girl who has married into the gentry and visits Hobart and Sydney with her hypochondriac , bookish husband . On their ...
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... fringe of leaves which Ellen wears in the bush but discards when making love to the escaped convict , Jack Chance , and eventually loses . The novel could have sunk into an existential , neo - Nietzschean despair but for one element ...
... fringe of leaves which Ellen wears in the bush but discards when making love to the escaped convict , Jack Chance , and eventually loses . The novel could have sunk into an existential , neo - Nietzschean despair but for one element ...
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... Fringe of Leaves . 1976 ; London : Vintage , 1997 . Winton , Tim . In the Winter Dark . Melbourne : McPhee Gribble , 1988 . Philosophy Arendt , Hannah . Essays on Understanding 1930-1954 , ed . Jerome Kohn . New York : Harcourt Brace ...
... Fringe of Leaves . 1976 ; London : Vintage , 1997 . Winton , Tim . In the Winter Dark . Melbourne : McPhee Gribble , 1988 . Philosophy Arendt , Hannah . Essays on Understanding 1930-1954 , ed . Jerome Kohn . New York : Harcourt Brace ...
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... Fringe of Leaves appeared in the year 1976. It is a historical novel in the sense that the story of its heroine , Ellen Roxburgh , is based on that of Eliza Fraser , who in 1836 was shipwrecked on a reef off the Queensland coast . She ...
... Fringe of Leaves appeared in the year 1976. It is a historical novel in the sense that the story of its heroine , Ellen Roxburgh , is based on that of Eliza Fraser , who in 1836 was shipwrecked on a reef off the Queensland coast . She ...
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... Fringe of Leaves , Riders in the Chariot and The Eye of the Storm . Years before his death , White had left other Australian novelists to their own courses and devices . All were sensible of his influence . Few resented it . He was a ...
... Fringe of Leaves , Riders in the Chariot and The Eye of the Storm . Years before his death , White had left other Australian novelists to their own courses and devices . All were sensible of his influence . Few resented it . He was a ...
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