10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE CULTURAL CRINGE»
Discover the use of
the cultural cringe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the cultural cringe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Describes Australia's subservience to British cultural values, and debates Australian culture, society and identity.
Allan Bell, Koenraad Kuiper. 13 THE CULTURAL CRINGE REVISITED:
CHANGES THROUGH TIME IN KIWI ATTITUDES TOWARD ACCENTS1 Donn
Bayard 1. Introduction Our actors [in 1 980] mimicked Cockney or would-be Rada
accents ...
Allan Bell, Koenraad Kuiper, 2000
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Another Look at
the Cultural Cringe
Paper which examines the notion of the Australian cultural cringe, a phrase coined by A A Phillips in the context of imaginative literature and since generalised to describe the whole Australian experience.
Cultural closures are located in natural features and read as paradigmatic classic
realist texts. Behind this essay, apart from Stephensen's, lay another short but
highly influential piece by A. A. Phillips. 'The cultural cringe' (1950) placed
Phillips ...
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Flight from Certainty:
The Dilemma of Identity and Exile
made clear in a number of public interviews, his intention is to lend his voice to
what is referred to in Australia as "shaking off the cultural cringe": a phrase that
refers to the perceived need for Australians to transcend the Eurocentrism of ...
Anne Luyat, Francine Tolron, 2001
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Streams of
Cultural Capital: Transnational
Cultural Studies
Monumentalizing Identity: The Discursive Practices of Hegemony in Australia*
BRUCE AND JUDITH KAPFERER Australians have a phrase, "The Cultural
Cringe," or more tersely, "The Cringe."1 It refers to any presentation of self or
identity, ...
David Palumbo-Liu, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, 1997
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Australian
Cultural History
This surely was the point of A.A. Phillips' identification of the cultural cringe. The "
cringe direct" is invoked in terms of "the Australian reader" who, when confronted
by Furphy, is compelled to ask himself "Yes, but what would a cultivated ...
Samuel Louis Goldberg, Francis Barrymore Smith, 1988
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Brecht & Co: German-speaking Playwrights on
the Australian Stage
The discussion showed that globalisation has affected the cultural cringe in the
sense that a greater number of cultural centres all over the world have replaced
the dominance of London and New York. (27 Aug. 2000) In her review of
Geoffrey ...
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Modern Scottish Culture
The cultural cringe has now been more or less overcome, at least amongst
intellectuals, but only very recently. Sometimes TV programmes like Rah C.
Nesbitt or writers like Irvine Welsh are still described in terms of a cultural cringe,
since they ...
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Dangerous Writing:
The Autobiographies of Willa Muir, ...
Born in 1924, Frame grew up in the era of the “Cultural Cringe”, when artists from
New Zealand and Australia, still under the influence of former settlers' mentality,
felt a sort of provincial melancholy for and cultural dependence on Great ...
Carmen Luz Fuentes-Vásquez, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE CULTURAL CRINGE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
the cultural cringe is used in the context of the following news items.
Blood & Thunder: Murdering the cultural cringe
It's the story of how Australia obtained its sound and killed the cultural cringe when the Easybeats seemed to miraculously appear with, as narrator David Field ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
Avoiding the cultural cringe key to doing business in China
Culture is an important part of doing business in China but Kiwis need to be wary of generalisations and stereotypes. Johnathan Chen, Head of Asia Division, ... «Lexology, May 15»
Why we can't shake off the cultural cringe
The phenomenon Arthur Phillips famously described as the “Australian cultural cringe" is alive and well. It was on display during the G20 meeting. The ALP, the ... «The Australian Financial Review, Nov 14»
The Book Club, Flanagan and our endemic cultural cringe
We don't seem to be able to shake our cultural status anxiety. ... In the six decades since, debate about the cultural cringe has raged intermittently but has never ... «The Conversation AU, Oct 14»
Festival of Australia and NZ arts launches in London
From time to time, Australia launches little cultural assault fleets back to the mother .... during the festival, in a "big debate" on whether the cultural cringe is over. «Sydney Morning Herald, May 14»
Sydney puts paid to cultural cringe
ANYONE who believes the cultural cringe is alive and well in Australia ... “For years France was the cultural centre, but there are different people who think that ... «The Australian, May 14»
Andrew Eaton - Lewis : Celtic Connections cures cultural cringe
This is the cultural cringe so expertly spoofed in Armando Iannucci's famous sketch Except For Viewers In Scotland. It's lost some of its sting in recent years ... «Scotsman, Jan 14»
New cultural cringe fears the eyes of the world
New cultural cringe fears the eyes of the world ... of them is as strong today as it was in the late 1950s when Arthur Angel Phillips identified the cultural cringe. «The Australian, Aug 13»
Measuring the cultural cringe
The best joke about the cultural cringe I've heard was told to me many years ago by the writer Frank Moorhouse, who quipped that "Meanjin" was an Aboriginal ... «The Age, Jan 10»
Cultural cringe
"I think the enthusiasm about Gallipoli, for instance, can be explained in part because this was the moment when we shook off the cultural cringe and our ... «ABC Online, Jul 07»
