Australian Literary Studies articles

Recent articles from Australian Literary Studies

'Simple facts of light and stone': the eco-phenomenology of Anthony Lawrence.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... 'outside myself/there is a world' William Carlos Williams, Paterson (57) DESPITE the fact that Anthony Lawrence has been publishing poetry for almost twenty years, producing nine collections since Dreaming in Stone appeared in 1989, and has been awarded numerous prizes, (1) his work has...

Australian Letters and postwar modernity.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... 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 Geoffrey Dutton and Bryn Davies (both members of the English Department at Adelaide University) were its initial editors. In 1963, on...

Anachronism, ekphrasis and the 'shape of time' in The Great Fire.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... READERS of Shirley Hazzard's fiction have long been familiar with the ways her densely allusive prose embeds her stories and her characters in European art and writing. While the plots of her novels follow the political and social dramas of the decades following the Second World War, their...

The Eco-humanities as literature: a new genre?(Essay)
April 1, 2008... WE have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. There is now considerable evidence that humanity has altered the biophysical systems of Earth, not just the carbon cycle which has been the focus of much recent politics, but also the nitrogen cycle and ultimately the...

Adapting Australian novels for the stage: La Boite Theatre's versions of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... IN the latest expression of its mandate to stage a broadly-defined Queensland, the Brisbane-based La Boite Theatre has turned to adapting local works. This is not new for the theatre--Rosamond Siemon's The Mayne Inheritance was adapted by Errol O'Neill for the 2004 season, and several Nick...