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

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 a...

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Main Author: Schofield, Robert James
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69320
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description 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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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-693202018-07-02T06:27:04Z The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction Schofield, Robert James 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. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69320 Curtin University fulltext
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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
title The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction
title_full The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction
title_fullStr The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction
title_full_unstemmed The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction
title_short The Dissenter and Anti-authoritarian Aspects of Australian History and Character that Inform the Moral Ambiguity that Marks Australian Crime Fiction
title_sort dissenter and anti-authoritarian aspects of australian history and character that inform the moral ambiguity that marks australian crime fiction
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69320