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Presence and Depiction of Authentic Australian Elements in Two of the Most Popular Australian Children's Books

其他書名	Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians and Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
出版	M. Mašić, 2015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eOcEkAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The main objective of my thesis is to discuss the presence and depiction of authentic Australian elements as reflected in two of the most popular Australian children's books: Seven Little Australians and The Magic Pudding. A special stress is put on Seven Little Australians since it represents the very beginning of a genuinely Australian children's literature. Juvenile fiction before the 1890s was excessively British or in other words Anglophile, but Ethel Turner surprised the readers with the amount of Australianness depicted in Seven Little Australians. Norman Lindsay also shocked the readers with his outrageously comic representations of Australiannes, including mateship and anthropomorphism in The Magic Pudding. In the first few chapters of my thesis, the development of Australian children's literature is briefly discussed. In the following chapters, literary criticism of the two books is examined. In the last part of my thesis, the two iconic works are analysed in terms of Australianness. The analysis reveals the authentic Australian elements as depicted in the two books.