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    The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction

    Schofield R 2017.pdf (1.655Mb)
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    Authors
    Schofield, Robert James
    Date
    2017
    Supervisor
    Dr David Whish-Wilson
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69320
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    Abstract

    This thesis consists of two distinct but related parts: a creative component, the contemporary crime novel ‘The Grass Mud Horse’, and an exegesis. Both will attempt to answer the question: How has the moral ambiguity that marks Australian crime fiction been informed and influenced by the dissenter and anti-authoritarian aspects of Australian history and character? It examines how issues usually associated with noir fiction of the twentieth century were present earlier in Australian crime fiction.

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