AA Phillips on the Cultural Cringe
$60.39
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2005
Summary
The MUP Masterworks series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Other writers in the series include Manning Clark, Donald Horne, Janet McCalman, Ray Parkin and Brenda Niall.The Australian writer, critic and teacher A.A. Phillips coined the term ‘the cultural cringe’ in 1950 to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas, particularly in Britain and the United States. The term has resonated in debates about Australi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522852219 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522852211 |
| Author: | A.A. Phillips |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 73g |
| Dimensions: | 183mm x 113mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Melbourne University Press Masterworks |
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About The Author
A.A. Phillips
A.A. (Arthur Angell) Phillips was born in Melbourne in 1900 and died in 1985. He was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, and was a schoolmaster at Wesley College, Melbourne. He published several books of criticism, including The Australian Tradition, and had a long association with Meanjin, in which his article about the cultural cringe first appeared.
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