The Life of Such is Life: A Cultural History of an Australian Classic
Awards:   Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Douglas Stewart Prize) 2023 (Australia) Winner of Queensland Literary Awards 2022 (Australia) Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2022 (Australia) Winner of Walter McCrae Russell Award 2023 (Australia)
Author:   Roger Osborne
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
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9781743327692


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 March 2022
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Douglas Stewart Prize) 2023 (Australia)
  • Winner of Queensland Literary Awards 2022 (Australia)
  • Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2022 (Australia)
  • Winner of Walter McCrae Russell Award 2023 (Australia)

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Author:   Roger Osborne
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9781743327692


ISBN 10:   1743327692
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Introduction: Entangled in the Work Bushman and Bookworm: Furphy’s Literary Foundations Such is Life: From the Writer’s Sanctum to the Literary Marketplace Versions of Such is Life: Typescript and Book An Anabranch of Such is Life: Rigby’s Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book The Death of the Author: Kate Baker’s Such is Life Wartime Revival: Tom Collins in the 1940s Shaping the Canon: Joseph Furphy Goes to University Epilogue: Where the (adj. sheol) is Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life? Works Cited Index

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Osborne offers a cogent chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the major revisions, excisions, and textual transfers, and of their effects on the material condition of Such Is Life. -- Brigid Magner * Australian Book Review *


"""Osborne offers a cogent chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the major revisions, excisions, and textual transfers, and of their effects on the material condition of Such Is Life."" -- Brigid Magner * Australian Book Review *"


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Roger Osborne is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at James Cook University, Cairns.

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