Australian Literary Studies articles from May 1999

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 1999

Origin, Identity and the Body in David Malouf's Fiction.
May 1, 1999... The Conversations at Curlow Creek is David Malouf's eighth substantial work of fiction, and his most recent. Only two of these eight works, notably Harland's Half Acre (1984) and The Great World (1990), are much longer than two hundred pages,...

The Scarlet-Clad Woman: Munch's Influence in A Fringe of Leaves.
May 1, 1999... Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves (1976) is based on the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle north of Fraser Island in 1836, the subsequent capture of Eliza Fraser by an Aboriginal tribe, and her eventual return to European settlement...

Colonial History and Post-Colonial Fiction: The Writing of Thea Astley.
May 1, 1999... Disaster left its stain, its ghosts. (Astley, The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 199) Throughout much of her writing career Thea Astley has been concerned with the traces of colonial history. In novels like A Kindness Cup (1974),...

Dying of Landscape: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert.(British author)
May 1, 1999... No pilgrims leave, no holy-days are kept for those who died of landscape.... Out there their place is, where the charts are gapped, unreachable, unmapped, and mainly in the mind. (Randolph Stow, `The Singing Bones') The six, relatively...

Remaking the Middle Ages in Australia: Francis Webb's `The Canticle' (1953).
May 1, 1999... We create God in our own image, and we impress the mark of our personality in places where we least expect to find it again. (Sabatier xxiii) FRANCIS Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, `The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has...

Australian Literary and Scholarly Publishing in Its International Context.
May 1, 1999... `Darkness' may seem an inapposite word for an epoch in which global communication is instantaneous and continuous. But sinister things are happening. More and more of the organs of communication are falling into fewer and fewer hands. The...

`There are no lost cities in Australia': Losing and Finding Australia in the Work of Alan Moorehead.
May 1, 1999... Feeling the Hinges of History IN the Australian in 1966 Alan Moorehead was claimed to be the author `who has written more successful books than any other Australian' (Pocock, Alan Moorehead 275). In Michael Heyward's recent summary in...

At a Distance.(Australian authors and overseas travel)
May 1, 1999... AS I sailed out of Sydney Harbour aboard the Castel Felice on Christmas Day, 1963, I had no idea that I would never again live in Australia long enough to call it home, but I had no regrets. Had I been in the habit of examining my sentimental...

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1998.
May 1, 1999... This is the thirty-sixth 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...

Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia, by Fiona Giles. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $29.95 It is a forbidding task to review this clutch of books, the diaries of an...

Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, by Roslynn Haynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Hardback, $39.95. It is a forbidding task to review this clutch of books, the diaries of an...

The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan, edited by Elaine Lindsay. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $34.95. It is a forbidding task to review this clutch of books, the diaries of an extraordinary writer and visual...

Woman and Herself: A Critical Study of the Works of Barbara Hanrahan.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Woman and Herself: A Critical Study of the Works of Barbara Hanrahan, by Annette Stewart. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $29.95. It is a forbidding task to review this clutch of books, the diaries of an...

The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, by Henry Kingsley, edited by Stanton Mellick, Patrick Morgan and Paul Eggert. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Paperback, $80.00, Hardback, $175.00. The Academy editions of...

Maurice Guest.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Maurice Guest, by Henry Handel Richardson, edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $80.00, Hardback, $175.00. The Academy editions of Australian literature announce themselves...

The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin: July 1858 - May 1868.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin: July 1858 - May 1868, edited by Lucy Frost. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press in Association with the State Library of New South Wales, 1998. Paperback, $80.00, Hardback, $175.00. The Academy...

The Australian Novel 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Australian Novel 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction, by John Scheckter. Studies of World Literature in English, 8. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Hardback, US$51.95. At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was...

Studies in Australian Literary History.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Studies in Australian Literary History, by Brian Kiernan. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 17. Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, University of Sydney, 1997. Paperback, $25.00. At the 1998 Victorian...

The Christesen Romance.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Christesen Romance, by Judith Armstrong. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. Paperback, $29.95. At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was given by visiting English actress Claire Bloom. She admitted...

Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir, by Michael Wilding. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $18.95. At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was given by visiting English actress Claire...

Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre, by Helen Gilbert. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Paperback, $55.00. In the past, drama has been something of the Cinderella among Australia's literary...

Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s.(Review)
May 1, 1999... Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s, edited by Veronica Kelly. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Paperback US$ 21. In the past, drama has been something of the Cinderella among Australia's literary genres. In nationalist constructions of our...