澳大利亚Australiaculturelife.ppt

Australia Cultural Life;1.Religion ;;By 1805;In the latter half of the 19th century;The move to multiculturalism in 1970s;Non-Christian;Australia described as a secular society?;What other source of cultural and social influence are there today? --------Sport;; Rituals of sport;;Netball is the most popular game in terms of the numbers who play the game, although it does not attract as many spectators as football, perhaps because it is usually played by women.;Sport also has positive characteristics:;The history of Australian literature covers an immense field ,from the Dreamtime stories ,myths and legends to the various forms of Australian literature in the English language Writings from Australian over the first few decades were written in the English style for an English audience. During the next few decades Australian writers began to write from a more Australian perspective focusing on constructing this new Australian identity .;The classic novel of convinct life was Marcus Clarke’s for the term of his natural life .Henry Lawson writes the life of the bush. Parson wrote yearningly the “romance of the Bush”. It was this realism that defined the early 20th century. Writers including Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton. The increasing industrialization of the early 20th century meant a move away from the rural bases of the earlier Australian literature. Urban Australian life was represented by both the romantics and the realists.;Similarly ,in the 1950s and 1960s many Australian writers echoed Christina Stead’s earlier awareness that to gain a name they had to leave Australian. Most went to Europe. Charmaine Clift ,George Johnston and many other famous writers all went abroad.;By 1973 , the dominating figure in Australian literature ,Patrick White ,won the Nobel Prize for Literature by his book “the eye of the storm”. He was the first Australian to win the prize. Ruth park ,a new Zealander who spent most of her life in Australian ,also won many litera