Variations on ‘The Drover’s Wife’: a Textual, Contextual, Extra-Textual Interplay
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’, published in 1892, has become an Australian classic. It has been followed by a series of extra-textual and textual variations which all address, sometimes reconsider or subvert the tradition. The aim of this paper is to analyze the interplay between so...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Summary: | Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’, published in 1892, has become an Australian classic. It has been followed by a series of extra-textual and textual variations which all address, sometimes reconsider or subvert the tradition. The aim of this paper is to analyze the interplay between some of these variations, the original text and the Australian cultural context. |
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