Australian literary history
Articles
- Review of The Burning Library: Our Great Novelists Lost and Found, by Geordie Williamson.
Geordie Williamson's collection of short essays on Australian novels he believes deserve to be rescued from oblivion is the kind of work that should have…
1 November 2012 - Review of Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism, edited by Clement Semmler
If the publishers' lists are any guide, Australians are becoming more and more interested in taking stock of themselves and their past. The writing of…
1 May 1968 - Review of The Writer in Australia 1856-1964, edited by John Barnes
The neutral title of this anthology of writing about Australian literature might well obscure the fact that the editor sees it as providing some of…
1 October 1969 - Reading My Brilliant Career
Some years ago I was teaching a course on nineteenth-century Australian literature which involved lectures on both Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph…
1 October 2002 - Australian Letters and Postwar Modernity
Australian Letters, 'a quarterly review of writing and criticism', was launched in Adelaide in 1957. Max Harris, co-owner of the Mary Martin Bookshop, poet…
1 October 2008 - Starting a Journal : ALS, Hobart 1963 : James McAuley, A D Hope and Geoffrey Dutton
The approach of the fortieth year of ALS, and a recent visit to Hobart, brought back memories of how the journal began. I would…
1 October 2000 - Review of Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature, edited by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni.
Telling Tales is a collection of nearly ninety short essays, chock full of interesting nuggets and quirky asides, the writing often brisk and entertaining. But…
1 October 2013 - ‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s : Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
Literary studies has for some time now been rediscovering the value and interest of an analytical style of literary history, one that tries - not…
1 May 1995 - Worlds Apart? Finnish Translations of Australian Literature
This paper will examine cultural relations through fiction and translations of fiction. More specifically it will discuss Finnish translations of Australian fiction and the role…
1 October 1995 - Cultural Pathology: What Ern Malley Means
Aftershocks from the conflicts that shaped Australian poetic culture in the 1940s can be faintly discerned even today. One influential element of the 'legend of…
1 May 1995 - Review of A.G. Stephens: Selected Writings edited by Leon Cantrell
Leon Cantrell's selection of the writings of A. G. Stephens is, of course, a welcome volume to the student of Australian literature. The volume makes…
1 May 1980 - Review of The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney by Ann-Mari Jordens
Some readers may find that this carefully researched volume confirms views they already hold; others may find it provocative, challenging them by the information it…
1 May 1980 - Racism, the Realist Writers’ Movement and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award
In their works on literary politics in postwar Australia, Susan McKernan (later Lever) and John McLaren mention the comparatively little known role played by the…
1 October 1999 - Review of The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety, by Peter Pierce
This is a book I was eager to read. I have long been an admirer of Peter Pierce's writing, and the subject ofthe study- the…
1 October 1999 - Sonnet Sequences in Australia (1832-1990): A Preliminary Checklist1 October 1993
- Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women’s Diaries and Letters1 May 1993
- Review of The Journalistic Javelin: An Illustrated History of the Bulletin by Patricia Wolfe, and The Bulletin 29 January 1980 (Centenary issue).
Histories of the Bulletin by journalists associated with the paper during its century of survival, or continual reincarnation, have their own history by now. When…
1 October 1980 - ‘Roost High and Crow Low’ : The Legacy of Barry Andrews
ON 1 July 1999 I had the privilege of attending the fiftieth anniversary Foundation Day Dinner of the University of New South Wales, held in…
1 May 2000 - A Paperback Canon: The Australian Pocket Library
In 1943, the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund sensed an opportunity. Prime Minister Curtin had been approached by the AIF Women's Auxiliary for…
1 May 2000 - Short Story Anthologies and ‘the Solid Body of Australian Fiction’
ANTHOLOGIES of any kind of writing serve as monuments, operating according to the complex functions that the term incorporates. Anthologies appear to be a record…
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Contributors
- John Barnes
- Patrick Buckridge
- Leigh Dale
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Nathan Hollier
- Joy W. Hooton
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Stephen Holden
- Douglas R. Jarvis
- Neil James
- Leonie Kramer
- Brian Kiernan
- Susan Lever
- Philip Mead
- Horst Priessnitz
- Susan Sheridan
- Graeme Turner
- Eija Ventola
- Elizabeth Webby