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- Good Readers and Good Citizens: Literature, Media and the Nation
Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…
1 October 1999 - Review of Panel by Panel: A History of Australian Comics by John Ryan, The Golden Years of Ginger Meggs 1921-1952, ed. John Horgan and *The Wild & Woolley Comix Books: Australian Underground Comix ed. Pat Woolley
Graphic art in Australia has been well served not only by its many famous practitioners (the Hops, Lows, Mays, Pettys, Crosses, Banckses, etc. etc.) but…
1 May 1981 - 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 Clarke.
1 October 2003 - Marcus Clarke and the Society of the Spectacle: Reflections on Writing and Commodity Captialism in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
Marcus Clarke was fascinated not only with the public spaces of the nineteenth-century city, colonial Melbourne in particular, but with the increasingly commodified, spectacularised forms…
1 May 1996 - The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of Last Note for a Lovely
Despite Carter Brown’s status as the least known of Australia’s most successful authors, research has been done on his productions, his style, and his bibliography…
28 October 2021