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Travel adventure, love story and tracicomedy, Exposure is about wanting too much, choosing too little, and how a person can spend three weeks solid in Los Angeles buying a sleeping bag.Joel Magarey's life would be fine if not for one thing - his brain. Prey to strange compulsions and grandiose visions, 25-year-old Joel abandons Australia, his job in journalism and his girlfriend, the wise and tender Penny, and sets off on the global journey of his dreams.Those dreams hadn't included nearly drowning in Alaska, setting fire to his tent on the Bolivian altiplano or terrifying a Korean family with
Travelers --- Journalists --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Magarey, Joel, --- Australian literature
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Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations-the 'empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhab...
Australian literature --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Aboriginal Australian authors --- Mobilité sociale --- Espace --- Temps --- Aspect social
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Apocryphal and Literary Influences in Galway Disaporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations. This book...
Australian literature --- Collective memory. --- Irish in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Intertextuality. --- Irish --- Irishmen (Irish people) --- Ethnology --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Lynch, Gay. --- Lynch family. --- Galway (Ireland : County) --- Australia --- Galway, Ire. (County) --- Gaillimh (Ireland : County) --- Contae na Gaillimhe (Ireland : County) --- Galway (County) --- Emigration and immigration.
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