Australian Literary Studies articles from April 2007

Australian Literary Studies archives from April 2007

'The life, the loves, of that dark race': the ethnographic verse of mid-nineteenth-century Australia.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Writing in 1938, the Australian anthropologist W.E. Stanner noted that the thought, culture and even the literature of his country had scarcely been affected by the life and death of its indigenous people. 'There are no epics on the last of the...

Spatialising the ghosts of Anzac in the plays of Sydney Tomholt: the absent soldier and the war memorial.(Australian and New Zealand Army Corps)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... IN 1914, of Australia's total population of four million, half the males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five volunteered to fight overseas in the Great War. Of these, twenty percent, or sixty thousand, were killed (Inglis 36). While the...

Miles Franklin on American manhood and white slavery: the case of 'Red Cross Nurse'.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... ON the eve of the First World War when Stella Miles Franklin was distressed by work, love, and a world gone mad, she wrote a 'curious story' (Coleman 165) titled 'Red Cross Nurse and Armored Chauffeur'. amended in her handwriting with the...

C.J. Brennan's A Chant of Doom: Australia's medieval war.(Christopher John Brennan)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... CHRISTOPHER Brennan's propagandist A Chant of Doom (1918) has very little value as poetry, and what critics have said about it is adequately damning. Judith Wright's comment is the best known: 'some of the most unpleasant and inflated verse...

'But who considers woman day by day?' Australian women poets and World War I.(Reprint)
April 1, 2007... WHAT is striking about Australian women's war poetry written during or soon after World War I is the range of subject matter, variety of moods, and extent of experimentation within and beyond received form. The poetry also reflects a wide range...

The Australian home-front novel of the Second World War: genre, gender and region.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... AUSTRALIA has recently reached the end of a cycle of sixtieth anniversaries of the major episodes of the Pacific war that, coming on the heels of the fiftieth, shows every sign of developing into a permanent 'anniversary culture'. While popular...

Paternalism and complicity: or how not to atone for the 'sins of the father'.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... THE cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the 'protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people,...

Annual bibliography of studies in Australian Literature: 2006.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2007... This is the forty-fourth annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of...

Read It Again.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Read It Again, by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2005. Paperback, $45. Read It Again is the fourth collection in Chris Wallace-Crabbe's critical career, a career that has run alongside, or perhaps beneath, a rich and productive...

Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila, by Timothy Kendall. North Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press in association with Curtin University Books, 2005. Paperback, $29.95. 'If you dig a hole right through the middle of the...

London Was Full of Rooms.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... London Was Full of Rooms, edited by Tully Barnett, Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex, Rick Hosking and Graham Tulloch. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2006. $29.95. In Stella Bowen's painting, 'Embankment Gardens', dark figures pace concrete walks amid...

John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer, Barrister, Novelist, Journalist and Gentleman.(Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer, Barrister, Novelist, Journalist and Gentleman, by Victor Crittenden. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2005. Hardback, $50. Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900, edited by...

Ida Leeson: A Life--Not a Blue-Stocking Lady.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ida Leeson: A Life--Not a Blue-Stocking Lady, by Sylvia Martin. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Paperback $29.95. Scholars of Australian literature are more likely than most to recognise the name Ida Leeson and to connect it to that venerable...

The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford, by Michael Crouch. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2005. Paperback, $38.95. Writing a biography is a tricky business. Perhaps most tricky, however, is to...

Books received.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2007... Aitkin, Richard. Botanical Riches'." Stories of Botanical Exploration. Carlton: Miegunyah Press, 2006. $59.95. A beautifully illustrated history of botanical exploration, ranging from ancient Sumer through to Renaissance Europe and China, and...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
April 1, 2007... Patrick Buckridge wishes to report that the F.H. Pritchard referred to in his article in ALS 22.3 (2006) was not, as erroneously stated on page 347, Senior English Master at Devonport High School in Tasmania, but at the Devonport High School...