Australian Literary Studies articles from May 1997

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 1997

'Deep ancestral voices': inner and outer narrative in Christopher J. Koch's 'Highways to a War.'
May 1, 1997... With The Doubleman (1985), Christopher Koch laid claim to be regarded as one of Australia's serious novelists. It was a novel which won him both local and international respect, most famously with the commendatory notice of Graham Greene.(1) A...

A reconsideration of Christina Stead at work: fact into fiction.
May 1, 1997... Everyone knows that novelists, like painters, draw from life. What we need to understand is more about the ways particular novelists transform real people into fictional characters and make them their own creations. Literary biographers may...

'What is gone is not gone': intimations in the poetry of Thomas Shapcott.
May 1, 1997... There is a quality of indirection and resistance -- perhaps a reflection of the work's agonistic nature -- which makes Thomas Shapcott's poetry a challenge. One of the most sustained considerations of Shapcott's poetry to date is Livio...

Colonial 'Australian' theatre writers: cultural authorship and the case of Marcus Clarke's 'first' play.
May 1, 1997... Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry, linked by continuous touring by artistes and companies via the international...

Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 1996.(Bibliography)
May 1, 1997... This is the thirty-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 books...

An interview with Christopher Koch. (Australian novelist)(Interview)
May 1, 1997... Thank you for agreeing to this interruption to your routine -- could you describe your working method ? What kind of interruption will this be ? Are you working to a plan when you write? My work method is to rough out a ground-plan for a novel...

'Those infernal pictures': reading Helen Darville, her novel and her critics. ('The Hand That Signed the Paper,' written under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko)
May 1, 1997... The principal task of civilisation, its actual raison d'etre, is to defend us from nature. Sigmund Freud In 1996 two important studies of Demidenko' were published, one by Andrew Riemer who discovers in The Hand that Signed the...

An interview with Thomas Shapcott. (Australian poet)(Interview)
May 1, 1997... Thomas Shapcott was born in 1935. For many years he was a public accountant in Ipswich, Queensland. From 1973-76 he was a member of the first Literature Board and between 198390 he was the director of the Literature Board. He is currently...

Three-dimensionality and 'My Brother Jack.' (novel by George Johnston)
May 1, 1997... It is no surprise that George Johnston's prize-winning novel, My Brother Jack (1964),(1) has often been seen as a reflection upon the self or a search for identity,(2) tracing as it does the partially fictionalised life of the writer(3) from his...

New light on the sources of 'His Natural Life.' (Marcus Clarke)
May 1, 1997... Henry Rouse, prisoner 18485, also known as Henry Beresford Garrett, Long Harry, John Heathcote and Klodhopr, spent about 38 years in gaols in England, Norfolk Island, Hobart Town, Williamstown and Pentridge in Victoria; also Dunedin, Christchurch...

'And What Books Do You Read?': New Studies in Australian Literature.
May 1, 1997... Essays presented to Laurie Hergenhan celebrating his contribution to the study of Australian literature and marking his retirement, edited by Irmtraud Petersson and Martin Duwell. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Paper,...

The 1890s: Australian Literature and Literary Culture.
May 1, 1997... Edited by Ken Stewart. UQP Studies in Australian Literature. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Paper, $22.95. For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are...

Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally's Fiction.
May 1, 1997... By Peter Pierce. UQP Studies in Australian Literature. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1995. Paper, $22.95. For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing...

Patrick White.
May 1, 1997... By Simon During. Oxford Australian Writers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper, $18.95. For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the diverse and...

Arthur's Dream: The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White.
May 1, 1997... By Michael Giffin. Sydney: Spaniel, 1996. Paper, $30. For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the diverse and largely positive benefits of a generation's...

Prophet from the Desert: Critical Essays on Patrick White.
May 1, 1997... Edited by John McLaren. Melbourne: Red Hill, 1995. Paper, $25. For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the diverse and largely positive benefits of a generation's...

Bio-Fictions: Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley.
May 1, 1997... The Colin Roderick Lectures: 1993, by Helen Thomson. Townsville, Qld: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1994. Paper, $10.50 posted. For Australian literary criticism it is the...

Australian Poetic Satire.
May 1, 1997... The Colin Roderick Lectures: 1994, by Dennis Haskell. Townsville, Qld: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1994. Paper, $10.50 posted. For Australian literary criticism it is the...

Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia.
May 1, 1997... By John McLaren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paper $29.95. These very different books -- one a study of cultural conflicts and controversies, particularly of how these were pursued in lime magazines; the other a commissioned...

A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia, 1946-96.
May 1, 1997... By Geoffrey Dutton. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books Australian, 1996. Paper $17.95. These very different books -- one a study of cultural conflicts and controversies, particularly of how these were pursued in lime magazines; the other a...

Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography.
May 1, 1997... By David McCooey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paper $29.95. Each of these books shares certain preoccupations: Artful Histories and Autographs obviously with the nature and function of autobiography as a genre; all three with...

Autographs: Contemporary Australian Autobiography.
May 1, 1997... Edited by Gillian Whitlock. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Paper $19.95. Each of these books shares certain preoccupations: Artful Histories and Autographs obviously with the nature and function of autobiography as a...

The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia.
May 1, 1997... By Simon Ryan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paper $29.95. Each of these books shares certain preoccupations: Artful Histories and Autographs obviously with the nature and function of autobiography as a genre; all three with...

David Williamson: A Writer's Career, Rev. ed.
May 1, 1997... By Brian Kiernan. Rev. ed. Sydney: Currency Press, 1996. Paper, $29.95. Like its 1990 hardback predecessor, the `completely revised paperback edition' of Brian Kiernan's biography of David Williamson contextualises the playwright's career in...

Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity.
May 1, 1997... By Paul Kane. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paper, $29.95. Hb, $90.00 Byron was born a few days before the first fleet landed at Botany Bay, and the number of emblematic interactions between the great events of European romanticism and the...

Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women's Poetry.
May 1, 1997... By Rose Lucas and Lyn McCredden. Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper, $29.95. Byron was born a few days before the first fleet landed at Botany Bay, and the number of emblematic interactions between the great events of European romanticism...