Australian Literary Studies articles from April 1 2008

Australian Literary Studies archives from April 1 2008

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bottling the forbidden fruit: Marion Halligan's fiction.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... MARION Halligan's writing dwells on the pleasures of daily life, and while readers can readily connect with this celebration of ordinariness, recognising in it patterns of our own existence, such subject matter can also provoke doubt, even...

Annual bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2007.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2008... This is the forty-fifth 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 books...

The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje, by Lamia Tayeb. Lewiston, US; Queenston, CAN; Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen, 2006....

Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia, by Margaret Henderson. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006. Paperback, 52.30 [euro]. The study of feminist cultural memory is not a wide field of scholarship in Australia and it...

Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews, edited by Angela Bennie. Carlton: Miegunyah, 2006. Paperback, $34.95. Angela Bennie's Creme de la Phlegm collects Australian book reviews published in the so-called mainstream press,...

Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, by Cassandra L. Atherton. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006. Paperback, $34.95. At last count Gwen Harwood employed no less than 13 pseudonyms...

The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism, by Katherine Barnes. Leiden: Brill. Aries Book Series, 2006. Hardback, 130.00 [euro]. Some years ago a well known anthologist and critic tried to justify...

Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds, edited by Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. Hardback, 34.99 [pounds sterling], US$69.99. This publication offers an overdue acknowledgement of Thea Astley's...

Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction, by Salhia Ben-Messahel. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. Paperback, $39.95. Twenty-five years have passed since Tim Winton was the joint winner of The Australian/ Vogel...

Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia.(Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia, by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Hardback, $144. Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian...

Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India, edited by Anuraag Sharma and Pradeep Trikha. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006. Hardback, US$25.00. The reading of Australian literature from international perspectives is vital, not...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear 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...