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Weird Melancholy in Henry Lawson’s ‘The Bush Undertaker’ and Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock In 1876, in his preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Poems, novelist Marcus Clarke coined the phrase ‘Weird Melancholy’ in reference to what he perceived to be the ‘dominant note’ of his country’s landscape and his subject’s verse. In doing so, he distilled the entire mood of Australian Gothic into one eerie essence, an essence present, to varying extents, in all texts of that genre. This can be seen through

Who were the Inca? Little information pertaining to the Inca Empire has kept a significant aspect of Latin American history shrouded in mystery. With an estimated population of between 15-20 million inhabitants, the Inca should be viewed as prime example of what the Americas were like prior to the Spanish domination of their empire (Martin 41). This means an in depth understanding of whom the Inca are must be accomplish before understanding specific aspects of Inca culture. With so many aspects of