Australian literary magazines
Articles
- ‘Colonial Literature for Colonial Readers!’
Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon discover…
1 October 1971 - Brereton, the ‘Bulletin’, and A.G. Stephens
Although Sea and Sky (1908) and Swags Up (1928) record Brereton's movement towards both individual concerns and a personal idiom, his whole achievement has its…
1 June 1963 - After Libertarianism: An Interview with Michael Wilding1 May 1998
- Paris, Moscow, Melbourne: Some Avant-Garde Australian Little Magazines, 1930-19341 May 1993
- ‘Some Means of Learning of the Best New Books’ : All About Books and the Modern Reader
The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an…
1 May 2006 - 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 - A.G. Stephens’s ‘Bookfellow’ in New Zealand1 October 1993
- 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 - Ada Cambridge and the First Thirty Years1 May 1990
- Salt : An Australian Second World War Journal and Its Contemporaries1 May 1993
- Editors’ Statements [Jim Davidson]1 October 1981
- Editors and Poets : Poetry in Australia 1931-19811 May 1982
- ‘Un Sans Culotte’ : The Bulletin’s Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade
Explores the suite of theatrical imagery in depicting the authorial personae developed in the Bulletin’s theatrical journalism: a collective identity masquerading under the name…
1 May 2000 - ‘Greetings to the Angry Penguins’: Ern Malley, Harry Roskolenko and USA Connections
As Australia was turning, politically, away from England and towards America in the 1940s, a similar, though less discussed cultural shift was also taking place…
1 May 1996 - Out from the Shadows: The Realist Writers’ Movement, 1944-1970, and Communist Cultural Discourse1 October 1992
- Textual Phantasmagoria : Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny
McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination - the intersection of affect and aesthetics - in the writing of Marcus…
1 October 2003 - After 9251 May 1986
Contributors
- Nan Bowman Albinski
- Margaret Bradstock
- John Blight
- David Carter
- David Carter
- Joan M. Davis
- Jim Davidson
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Pauline Kirk
- Brian Kiernan
- Veronica Kelly
- Andrew McCann
- Peter Murphy
- Ian Syson
- Susan Sheridan
- Ian Syson
- Michael Wilding
- Louise Wakeling