Issues
- Jack Lindsay and MI5: More than Surveillance
- ‘The Fullness of Life’: The Poetics and Politics of Jack Lindsay
- Jack Lindsay’s Historical Writings
- ‘A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes’: Narrated Surveillance, Redacted Recognition and the International Reach of ASIO’s Cultural Cold War
- ‘War’s just one black foulness’: Jack Lindsay’s *The Blood Vote* and the Orthodoxies of Anzac
- Menippean Sensibility in Patrick White’s *Memoirs of Many in One* by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray
- Aboriginality in *Ethel Turner’s Seven Little Australians* and Its Translation into German
- Australian Literary Studies in the 1940s: The Commonwealth Literary Fund Lectures
- The Fortunate Flâneuse
Volume 30 No. 4
1 November 2015
- Introduction
- Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures
- Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers
- ‘The Beast Within’: Degeneration in *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* and Three Australian Short Stories
- Strange in the Cold Blue Light: Sensation and Science in the *Australian Journal*
- Francis Adams: Realism and Sensation in the 1880s
- The Tennysons in Literary Adelaide
- Symbolism and the Antipodes: The Fallen Woman in Caroline Leakey’s *Lyra Australis, or Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land*
- Reading Byron in Kororāreka: *The Journal of Ensign Best*
- Transforming *Jane Eyre*: Its Australian Stage Adaptations
Volume 30 No. 3
This special issue was edited by Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi.
31 October 2015
- Introduction: Why Pastoral?
- Why the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ Isn’t One: Early Modern Vitalism and the Emotions of Nature in Shakespeare and Milton
- Pastoral Retreat and Green Texts: The 2009 Globe Production of *Love’s Labour’s Lost*
- The Practice of Pastoral Empathy in Wordsworth’s Salisbury Plain Poems
- Representation and Particularity in Pastoral: Some Examples from *Walden*
- Nude Bathing Scenes as an Australian Pastoral Mode: Strategies and Tactics in Australian Art around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- A Pastoral Reading of Christina Stead’s *Cotters’ England*
- Wildness and Wilderness: Anti-pastoralism and the Problematic Politics of Edward Abbey
- Amanda Lohrey's *Vertigo*: An Australian Pastoral.
- Barbara Kingsolver’s Singing Shepherd: *The Lacuna* as Pastoral Elegy
- Ecopastoralism: Settler Colonial Pastoral Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback
Afterlives of Pastoral
Volume 30 No. 2
Editors: Judith Seaboyer, Ruth Blair and Victoria Bladen
30 June 2015
- Since 1964 ...
- Back to Whitton Week: Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
- Colonialism, Racial Violence and Loss: *The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith* and *The Roving Party*
- From the Harp of Erin to Erin of the Harp with Thomas Keneally
- The Making of Thomas Keneally
- In Custody: Thomas Keneally and American Stories
- Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
Volume 30 No. 1
Selected and revised essays from a seminar held in September 2014 at the University of Wollongong celebrating fifty years of Thomas Keneally as a novelist.
Edited by Paul Sharrad.
30 May 2015
- ‘Are You for Magic?’ Patrick White and Camp
- Reading Groups and Reconciliation: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and the Ordinary Reader
- William Howitt, Australia and the ‘Green Language’
- Gardens of Empire, Eden and Passion in Charlotte Wood’s The Submerged Cathedral
- The Writing and Publishing of Australia’s First Gay Novel
- Woods, Memories and Dreams: David Martin
- Marcus Clarke, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Cyril Hopkins
- Review by Ruth Blair
- Review by Joseph Cummins
Volume 29 No. 4
1 November 2014
- Listening between the Lines: Introduction: Exploring Interdisciplinarity between Music and Literature
- R. Strauss, Opus 67, 1-3, Drei Lieder der Ophelia: Ophelia Set adrift in the Cross-Currents of Interdisciplinary Culture
- Adaptation Studies, Convention, Vocal Production and Embodied Meaning in Verdi’s Macbeth: Rehabilitating the Brindisi, or, Lady Macbeth Unsexes Herself
- Relinquishing Poetic Form as a Means of Musical Redemptionin Gabriel Faure’s La Chanson d’Eve
- Poetic Soundings: Aesthetic Correlation in the Work of T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky
- Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind’ and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse
- Waking up the Colours: Memory and Allegory in Iranian Hip Hop and Ambient Music
- Intention and (In)determinacy: John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’ and the Ambiguity of Performance
- Composing Rayuela: The Musical Element in Julio Corrazar’s Narrative
- Review of J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism, by Katherine Hallemeier.
- Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry, by Toby Davidson
- Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity, by Michele Grossman
Volume 29 No. 1-2
This double issue of Australian Literary Studies originated with papers from the ‘Listening between the Lines: Exploring the Relationship(s) between Music and Literature’ symposium convened by Christian Griffiths at Monash University in June 2014 on behalf of the Monash University…
1 May 2014
- Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Rehabilitation of Literary Criticism as a ‘Kind of Writing’
- Poetry, Activism and Cultural Capital
- ‘His Grief Is the Plague’ : Poetry of Loss and the Risk of Losing One’s Readers
- Kenneth Leslie Goodwin
- Ideas about the Thing, Not the Thing Itself : Impact and Other Abstractions and the Politics of Research Performance Measurement
- Displaced Selves in Contemporary Fiction, or the Art of Literary Activism
- The Impact of Literature
- Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
- Words, Sticks and Stones : Keneally, Literature and Social Impact
- Review of An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis, by Philip Butterss.
- Review of Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a WorldLiterature? ed. Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney
Volume 28 No. 4
1 November 2013