Objects Strangely Familiar: Symbolism and Literary Allusion in the Novels of Gary Crew

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  • Diane Humphery

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1996vol6no2art1402

Keywords:

Gary Crew, Strange Objects, No Such Country, The Inner Circle, Angle's Gate, The House of Tomorrow, symbolism, youth, Australian fiction

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Bourke, Lawrence (1993) 'Cunning passages: history in Gary Crew's Strange Objects', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 4, 3.

Crew, Gary (1986) The Inner Circle. Melbourne, Mammoth Australia.

Crew, Gary (1988) The House of Tomorrow. Melbourne, Mammoth Australia.

Crew, Gary (1990) Strange Objects. Melbourne, Mammoth Australia.

Crew Gary (1991) No Such Country. Melbourne, Mammoth Australia.

Crew, Gary (1992) 'The architecture of memory', Australian Author 24, 1.

Crew, Gary (1993) Angel's Gate. Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia.

Eagleton, Terry (1983) Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford, Blackwell.

Mills, Alice (1993) 'Scapegoats and shadows: a Jungian account of the theme of collective guilt in Strange Objects', in Stone, M. (ed) Australian Children's Literature: Finding a Voice (Proceedings of the Second Children's Literature Conference). Wollongong, New Literatures Research Centre, University of Wollongong.

Nieuwenhuizen, Agnes (1990) 'Teaching the young a sense of history', The Age Saturday Extra, 29 December.

Pearce, Sharyn (1990) 'Identity in Australia: Gary Crew's adolescent novels', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 1, 2.

Saxby, Maurice (1993) The Proof of the Puddin'. Sydney, Ashton Scholastic.

Scutter, Heather (1993) 'Two viewpoints on Gary Crew's Angel’s Gate', Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults 1, 4.

Stone, Michael (1992) 'The ambiguity of hesitation in Gary Crew's Strange Objects', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 3, 1.

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1996-07-01

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“Objects Strangely Familiar: Symbolism and Literary Allusion in the Novels of Gary Crew” (1996) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 6(2), pp. 37–45. doi:10.21153/pecl1996vol6no2art1402.