Textual criticism & editing
Articles
- The Text of Lawson’s Prose
The textual problem is a vexed one. In the absence of final proof copies with the author's own corrections the textual student can only proceed…
1 December 1966 - Towards a Reassessment of the MSS of Shaw Neilson
In 1965 Angus and Robertson published The Poems of Shaw Neilson, introduced and edited by Professor A. R. Chisholm. The edition contains 172 poems…
1 October 1968 - Fresh Light on A. G. Stephens as Editor of Barcroft Boake’s Works
A response to Clement Semmler’s criticism of A. G. Stephens’s editing of Barcroft Boake’s poetry. Concludes that ‘on the evidence available, Stephens must be regarded…
1 May 2006 - Ada Cambridge and the First Thirty Years
Ada Cambridge is now well-known for her 'autobiography' and delightful collection of memoirs, Thirty Years in Australia (London: Methuen, 1903). What is not well-known is…
1 May 1990 - The Penguin and the Man-O’-War Hawk: Joseph Furphy’s Critical Reputation, 1903-1947
Darby examines the early reception of Such is Life to demonstrate that, contrary to previous opinions, those first readers were aware of the hidden plots…
1 October 1987 - Review of Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature, by Paul Eggert
The cover-image of Securing the Past is an arresting photograph of a small group of people reclining on the grass while a partially restored manor…
1 May 2011 - Texts and Contexts of the Availability and Editing of Australian Texts
Except for passing comment little has been written about the urgent need for reliable editions of Australian literary texts and about the problems this involves…
1 May 1986 - Second Thoughts on the Langton Novels : Martin Boyd’s Revisions
When Martin Boyd was urged by his Australian publishers, in 1968, to continue the Langton novels, he explained that he could not do so, because…
1 May 1976 - The Palmer Abridgement of ‘Such is Life’
In April 1936 Jonathan Cape, the London publisher, informed Vance Palmer that he had been thinking of re-issuing Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. But…
1 October 1978 - Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas
This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- Mark Azzopardi
- Margaret Bradstock
- Dennis Douglas
- Robert Darby
- Ruth Harrison
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Brenda Niall
- Roger Osborne
- W. F. Refshauge
- Louise Wakeling
- David Robert Walker