Geoffrey Dutton (1922–1998)
Autor de The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Geoffrey Dutton
The innovators: The Sydney alternatives in the rise of modern art, literature, and ideas (1986) 11 copias
The Australian heroes : a rousing roll call of 47 of Australia's greatest heroes and heroines (1981) 6 copias
Night flight and sunrise 2 copias
On My Island 2 copias
A Long Way South. An account of a journey by car from London to Australia. With plates (1953) 2 copias
States of the Union 2 copias
The Australian bedside book : a selection of writings from The Australian literary supplement (1987) 2 copias
Flowers & Fury : poems 2 copias
Australian Poetry, 1962 2 copias
Australia’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation (Vol 3 Part 40); Uprising at the Eureka Stockade 1 copia
Paintngs of S. T. Gill 1 copia
The Beach 1 copia
Australia and the Monarchy 1 copia
Antipodes in shoes 1 copia
Night fishing 1 copia
Tisi and the yabby 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Dutton, Geoffrey Piers Henry
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-08-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1998-09-17
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Anlaby, South Australia, Australia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Educación
- University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
University of Adelaide - Ocupaciones
- lecturer (English)
editor
historian - Relaciones
- Dutton, Ninette (wife|divorced)
- Organizaciones
- Royal Australian Air Force (WWII)
Penguin Australia (founding editor)
Adelaide University (Senior Lecturer in English, 953-1962) - Premios y honores
- Order of Australia (Officer ∙ 1976)
Visiting Fellow, University of Leeds
Visiting Professor, Kansas State University
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 90
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 616
- Popularidad
- #40,815
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 12
- ISBNs
- 85
- Idiomas
- 2
It's a delicate five stars because a) the book is inevitably dated after 35 years, and b) no-one is going to agree with all of the options. Unfortunately, those 35 years mean an awful lot when it comes to multicultural and gender representative literature. At the same time, Dutton was always of the "new school of thought" and he proactively notes that about a third of the books included deal directly with Australia's Indigenous population or their history.
Nevertheless, with those caveats aside, this is sublime. Each book is given a generous discussion as well as a short excerpt and a biography of the author. Dutton reaches back to the very first settlers, examining the more moral men and women who - unfortunately - were not always heard by those in power during our country's complicated past. He restricts himself to one book per author which, although it means some tough decisions with authors like Thea Astley and Patrick White, allows him to run through a wide spectrum. Importantly, this is a luxurious read, happy to delve into all sorts of areas of the public consciousness, and it reminds me how, even as someone with a university education in literature, my knowledge of my own country's literature is average at best. A worthy find.… (más)