{"product_id":"2026100011460-secondhand-big-noting-the-heroic-theme-in-australian-war-writing","title":"Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme In Australian War Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: FEP missing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner,Remainder mark\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: damaged front pastedown \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the trenches of Gallipoli to the jungles of the Pacific, Australian war writing has long cultivated a mythology of the heroic soldier — and Robin Gerster's Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing subjects that mythology to rigorous and revelatory scrutiny. This landmark work of literary and cultural criticism argues that Australian war literature is defined by a persistent tradition of self-aggrandisement — or big-noting — in which the figure of the Anzac warrior is repeatedly constructed, idealised, and lionised across decades of prose and poetry.\n\nGerster brings a sharp analytical eye to a vast body of texts, tracing the heroic archetype through official histories, personal memoirs, and imaginative fiction to uncover the ideological machinery that sustains the Anzac legend. His writing is precise, intellectually rigorous, and compellingly readable, situating Australian war writing within broader debates about nationalism, masculinity, and cultural identity. Published by Melbourne University Press in 1987, this study remains an essential — and quietly provocative — intervention in Australian literary history, raising urgent questions about the stories a nation chooses to tell about itself in wartime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573376356571,"sku":"2026100011460-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ef78c4a0-eb4c-40d7-859b-244fda7d2833.png?v=1791168110","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011460-secondhand-big-noting-the-heroic-theme-in-australian-war-writing","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}