World War I
Articles
- Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey1 October 1971
- A Checklist of Australian Literature of World War I1 October 1969
- Australian Poetry of the First World War : A Survey1 May 1970
- Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter : The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession…
1 May 2009 - Letter to the Editor
ALS 23.1, with its war-related articles was, for a now 'old' (in more ways than one) Second AIF army man, a most interesting issue. The articles prompt some reflections which may be of interest. They relate to the continued presence…
1 October 2008 - Arthur and Emily: A Note on a World War I Novel1 May 1990
- War Poetry : Myth as De-formation and Re-formation1 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 survive on her own when her German-born father, Mr Putman, and brother, Max, are interned…
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 type of literature: fear of threats to their class and race caused by war; fear…
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 - Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War1 October 1985
- [Statement]1 October 1985
- Anzac, Literary Genre and Memory
'Lest we forget' is the phrase most commonly evoked by Anzac Day. Lying behind it is a community's desire to repress, put aside, forget. The opposing tendencies to forget, or to remember, have their historical (as well as personal) moments…
1 October 1996 - A Checklist of Australian Literature of the First World War1 October 1985
- Greeks and Moderns : The Search for Culture in the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
THE Official History of Australia in the War of 1914- 1918 provided Australians with an opportunity to assert the significance of their history to an international as well as a domestic audience. C.E.W. Bean, the architect, general editor and principal…
1 October 2007 - Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches 1914-1918 (France and Italy)
In 1916, Emilio Lussu was fighting with the Sassari brigade on Italy's Austrian front. In his memoirs, written much later, he recalled his war- time reading: Orlando Furioso, Les F/eurs du Mal and a book on birds. In 1916 Lussu…
1 October 2014
Contributors
- Jan Bassett
- Bruce Bennett
- Donna Coates
- David A. Kent
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- Christopher Lee
- Martyn Lyons
- J. S. D. Mellick
- David Malouf
- Peter Otto
- Michael Sharkey
- Andrew Taylor
- James Wieland