Australian Literary Studies articles from May 2000

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 2000

Intricate Knots and Vast Cosmologies: The Poetry of Judith Beveridge.
May 1, 2000... A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling one thread involves disturbing so many others. One could begin by listing what it doesn't...

`Un Sans Culotte': The Bulletin's Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade.
May 1, 2000... IN The Archibald Paradox, her study of the Bulletin's editor J.F. Archibald, Sylvia Lawson provides a suggestive analysis of the various cultural and political discourses pursued in the journal's `print circus' in the twenty years from its...

Much Ado About Everything: The Melbourne Shakespeare Society 1884-1904.
May 1, 2000... IN much Australian popular writing around the turn of the century and later, `Shak(e)speare' is a `posh' figure, a representative of English tradition and high culture.(1) C.J. Dennis's sentimental bloke shouts from his seat for the players in...

Short Story Anthologies and `the Solid Body of Australian Fiction'.
May 1, 2000... Real criticism... occurs not in reviews or in long critical articles but in the selection and compilation of anthologies. The influence that these monuments exert has not been sufficiently recognised. One's first (and often one's firmest)...

A Paperback Canon: The Australian Pocket Library.
May 1, 2000... IN 1943, the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund sensed an opportunity. Prime Minister Curtin had been approached by the AIF Women's Auxiliary for Prisoners of War, which requested that cheap editions of Australian books be made...

Why Australia? Or Against the Fragmentation of English Literary Studies.
May 1, 2000... THE concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue of ALS and in Southerly (Carter; Dale; I. Henderson; M. Henderson; Hughes-D'Aeth;...

`Roost High and Crow Low': The Legacy of Barry Andrews.
May 1, 2000... ON 1 July 1999 I had the privilege of attending the fiftieth anniversary Foundation Day Dinner of the University of New South Wales, held in the splendid new Scientia building on the Kensington campus. During the course of the evening the...

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1999.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2000... This is the thirty-seventh 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...

Michael Dransfield's Lives: A Sixties Biography.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Michael Dransfield's Lives: A Sixties Biography, by Patricia Dobrez. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Hardback, $44.95. All biographies, especially literary biographies, are fraught with difficulties, not the least of which is...

The Devil and James McAuley.(Review)
May 1, 2000... The Devil and James McAuley, by Cassandra Pybus. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1999. Hardback, $34.95. In the introduction to this book, Cassandra Pybus disarmingly exhibits her qualifications for sounding off about James...

Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1999. Paperback, $29.95. John Shaw Neilson had a remarkable capacity for inspiring devotion in others. Soon after iris death in...