Australian Lterature
The Spirit of Nationalism in Australian Literature with Special Reference to A.B.Paterson’s poem, 'A Man from Snowy River' Anjay.P.Kumar 14-PEL-24
Abstract: Australia is a very heterogeneous demographical society due to colonisation and further immigration of people from different parts of the world who later chose to remain and intermingle with the aboriginal population of the country and this very fact has given her literature an eclectic quality which is a mosaic of European and indigenous art forms. For modern Aboriginals, written literature has been a way of both claiming a voice and articulating a sense of cohesion as a people faced with real threats to the continuance of their culture and traditional culture, story, song, and legend served to define allegiances and relationships both to others and to the land that nurtured them. Bush poetry has always been at the heart of Australian literature and its charm remains amaranthine with writers like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson having contributed much to tell the world of their nationalistic identity with remained obscure till then. In this paper, the researcher tries to bring out the spirit of nationalism in Australian bush poetry, with special reference to Banjo Paterson’s poem ‘A Man from Snowy River’.
The study of literature takes its place somewhere between history and philosophy and history is about events and the people who make them, about the long process by which the human race adapted the earth to its purpose and about the tools and, institutions and societies it created. Literature, however, is a branch of cultural studies, a study of the patterns shaped by society which in turn shape our ways of seeing the world and the ideas we have about it.
During the years between the wars, Australia as a nation promoted the notion of a young clean, white nation free from the vice and disease
Abstract: Australia is a very heterogeneous demographical society due to colonisation and further immigration of people from different parts of the world who later chose to remain and intermingle with the aboriginal population of the country and this very fact has given her literature an eclectic quality which is a mosaic of European and indigenous art forms. For modern Aboriginals, written literature has been a way of both claiming a voice and articulating a sense of cohesion as a people faced with real threats to the continuance of their culture and traditional culture, story, song, and legend served to define allegiances and relationships both to others and to the land that nurtured them. Bush poetry has always been at the heart of Australian literature and its charm remains amaranthine with writers like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson having contributed much to tell the world of their nationalistic identity with remained obscure till then. In this paper, the researcher tries to bring out the spirit of nationalism in Australian bush poetry, with special reference to Banjo Paterson’s poem ‘A Man from Snowy River’.
The study of literature takes its place somewhere between history and philosophy and history is about events and the people who make them, about the long process by which the human race adapted the earth to its purpose and about the tools and, institutions and societies it created. Literature, however, is a branch of cultural studies, a study of the patterns shaped by society which in turn shape our ways of seeing the world and the ideas we have about it.
During the years between the wars, Australia as a nation promoted the notion of a young clean, white nation free from the vice and disease