Australian war literature
Articles
- Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey
Whereas almost the entire amount of significant Australian poetry relating to the First World War had appeared in print by 1921, the bulk of the…
1 October 1971 - The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant
Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…
1 October 1985 - Arthur and Emily: A Note on a World War I Novel
In 1973, the Monash University Library acquired from the Australian bookseller Burge Lopez, a manuscript itemised as 'an anonymous unpublished typescript novel' (Arthur and…
1 May 1990 - War Poetry: Myth as De-formation and Re-formation
In his Introduction to Shadows from Wire Geoff Page remarks that 'rarely since the 1914-18 war ended has Australian interest in it been higher' and…
1 October 1985 - War in Post-1960s Fiction: Johnston, Stow, McDonald, Malouf and Les Murray
Discusses a number of war novels which, rather than focussing on military conflicts, centre on the ways in which war has shaped Australian experience. Argues…
1 October 1985 - The Usable Past: Australian War Fiction of the 1950s
Discusses a number of Australian novels of the Second World War in terms of their characterization of the soldier figure, depiction of wartime themes of…
1 October 1985 - Lesbia Harford’s Homefront Warrior and Women’s World War I Writing
Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to…
1 May 1995 - ‘Preserving the White Race’: Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this…
1 October 1985 - ‘But who considers woman day by day?’: Australian Women Poets and World War I
Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.
1 May 2007 - The Australian Home-Front Novel of the Second World War: Genre, Gender and Region
Discusses manifestations of the home-front novel established and exemplified by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James's Come In Spinner: populist in aspiration and style, focussed…
1 May 2007 - [Statements about War Literature]
A number of authors of war literature were sent a questionnaire by ALS, asking them to write about why they had turned to war…
1 October 1985 - Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War
Provides a bibliography of books and articles concerning Australia's involvement in various wars from the Sudan Campaign to the Vietnam War.
1 October 1985 - [Statement]
Roger McDonald responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…
1 October 1985 - C. J. Brennan’s A Chant of Doom: Australia’s Medieval War
CHRISTOPHER Brennan's propagandist A Chant ofDoom (1918) has very little value as poetry, and what critics have said about it is adequately damning. Judith Wright's…
1 May 2007 - An Interview with Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally discusses his literary interest in war and history, his work's relationship to Australian literature more broadly, and his process of turning fact into…
1 October 1986 - Spatialising the Ghosts of Anzac in the Plays of Sydney Tomholt: The Absent Soldier and the War Memorial
Kelly argues that the resonant presentation of catastrophic effects of war in the plays of Sydney Tomholt makes them important early examples of modernist drama.
1 May 2007 - Review of Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing by Robin Gerster, and *Frank Honywood, Private: A Personal Record of the 1914-1918 War, by Eric Patridge, introduced and annotated by Geoffrey Serle
Early in 1915 the Sydney Morning Herald published a piece by Amy Mack, who had been commissioned to file an occasional column from England, recording…
1 May 1989 - A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War
Includes sections on fiction, personal narratives, prisoner-of-war books, historical accounts and other works of interest.
1 October 1985 - Anzac, Literary Genre and Memory
Because of their textual brevity, poems and short stories can be written (and sometimes published) closer in time to the events which prompted them than…
1 October 1996 - A Checklist of Australian Literature of the First World War
Includes bibliographies, literary criticism, anthologies, compilations, verse, fiction, personal narratives and drama.
1 October 1985
Contributors
- Jan Bassett
- Bruce Bennett
- Donna Coates
- Robin Gerster
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Rick Hosking
- William Hatherell
- David A. Kent
- Thomas Keneally
- Veronica Kelly
- J. T. Laird
- Andrew Lynch
- J. T. Laird
- Roger McDonald
- Michael Sharkey
- Andrew Taylor
- Shirley Walker
- James Wieland
- James Wieland