Henry Lawson
What disability did Lawson have?
He was deaf
Henry Lawson was a famous _____ and _____ ______ writer?
Henry Lawson was a famous POET and SHORT STORY writer.
Sketch is a:
a) genre
b) style
c) belief
d) drawing
Sketch is a:
b) style
What is the title of one of the conventional short stories written by Lawson?
The Loaded Dog
In which country has cultural cringe historically been prevalent?
Australia
How or when did Lawson die?
What is the name of the period/era in which Henry Lawson wrote?
Colonial period
What is a sketch?
A short story with very little plot
The three stages of a conventional short story's narrative structure
Orientation, conflict, and resolution (denouement)
Define cultural cringe
Cultural cringe is an internalised inferiority complex that causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries.
17th June 1867 in a tent on the goldfields of Grenfell, NSW.
Who was Henry Lawson often compared to?
Bush poet Banjo Paterson
What is a focus of sketch?
To make observations concerning the human condition or to show the tragedy in people's lives.
Lawson's short stories are designed to entertain through...
Which Australian writer argued that Australian authors were often seen as imitators of overseas writers and only gained recognition in Australia after achieving success in England?
Henry Lawson
WHEN and WHERE did Lawson travel to that was particularly significant to Lawson's writing which exposed him to the hardships of rural living?
Bourke, NSW in 1892
How did Henry Lawson portray the outback?
As a harsh, challenging place
Lawson combined two distinct writing styles- what are they?
The sketch and the short story to create a sketch-story
Define conventional
Normal, ordinary, traditional, or widely accepted methods or ways of doing things
OR
adhering to a set of established norms in writing
According to A.A. Phillips, this was the only field in which Australians confidently believed their country could compete internationally.
Sport
List ALL of the places Lawson lived
Grenfell
Mudgee
Sydney
Brisbane
New Zealand
London
Criticising (challenging) the romantic representation of bush life in Australian art and literature.
What two elements do Lawson's short stories focus on over plot to create a distinctively visual impression of life in the Australian bush?
Characterisation and setting
Lawson presents a distinctively visual impression of the comedic ___________ that characterises so much of our national identity.
Larrikinism
Explain what this means:
Phillips pointed out that the [Australian] public widely assumed that anything produced by local dramatists, actors, musicians, artists and writers was necessarily deficient when compared against the works of their British and European counterparts.
Phillips argued that Australians often believed their own artists, writers, actors and musicians were less talented than those from Britain and Europe.