Australian Literary Studies articles from May 2001

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 2001

Editorial.
May 1, 2001... My note on `Starting ALS' which appeared in a recent issue (19.4, October 2000) was a preliminary to telling readers that I shall be retiring as editor. In 2002, Dr Leigh Dale of the University of Queensland, at present reviews editor, will be...

Ern Malley and His Rivals.(interpretation of literary periodical rivals)
May 1, 2001... THE received history of Angry Penguins is based on a simple story: two young poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, at odds with the aesthetic aims of Angry Penguins, together write a corpus of poems and offer it for publication in the...

Vexilla Regis Prodeunt:(1) Myth and Allusion in Out of Ireland.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... CHRISTOPHER Koch's novel, Out of Ireland, purports to be the journal of Robert Devereux, an Irish insurrectionist convicted of high treason and transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1848. When he escapes his Vandemonian confinement, Devereux...

Dorothy Hewett's Faith in Doubt.(interpretation of the author's work)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... How Sublime EPISTEMOLOGICAL shifts in writing and criticism have produced rich possibilities for re-reading Australian modernists. Changes in ways of conceptualising modernism and feminism bring into view, for example, the extent to which...

Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen.
May 1, 2001... ALTHOUGH few people today have heard of them, the nine novels published by Marie Bjelke-Petersen between 1917 and 1937 were immensely popular in their time. Sales, including translations, totalled 250,000 and in 1935 Bjelke-Petersen was awarded...

Writers Behaving Badly: Stead, Bourdieu and Australian Literary Culture.(authors Christina Stead and Pierre Bourdieu)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... IN his poem `Demo', published in the collection Subhuman Redneck Poems, Les Murray writes: No. Not from me. Never./Not a step in your march,/not a vowel in your unison, / bray that shifts to bay.../I grant you no claim ever,/not if...

Australian Literary Criticism: Future Directions.
May 1, 2001... `I returned to my job in a liberal faculty of a large city college, teaching subjects that went by various names: literary studies, writing, even literature; then textual studies. I returned... only to find I was no longer interested in the...

Miles Franklin's Topical Writings: A Listing.(author)
May 1, 2001... Introduction IN addition to nineteen books and two published plays, Australian writer Miles Franklin wrote quite extensively for the newspaper and periodical press. The following listing identifies over 150 items published during her...

A NOTE ON NETTIE PALMER'S JOURNALISM.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... While researching the journalism of Nettie Palmer 1920-1940, I found some items to be added to the very useful checklist of Palmer's work by both Vivian Smith and Deborah Jordan.(1) Jordan points out that her listing is `an adjunct to the...

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2000.
May 1, 2001... This is the thirty-eighth 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...

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature.(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature, edited by Elizabeth Webby. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. Hardback, $99; Paperback, $34.95. With a respected, experienced editor, a cast of at least competent scholars and a cocktail of...

Investigations in Australian Literature.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Investigations in Australian Literature, by Ken Stewart. Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture (distributed in Australia by Halstead Press), 2000. Paperback, $25.00. With a respected, experienced editor, a cast of at...

Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, by Patricia Clarke. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Hardback $43.95. Rosa Praed is a significant figure in nineteenth-century Australian literature. With voluminous...

Hearts and Minds: Creative Australians and the Environment.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Hearts and Minds: Creative Australians and the Environment, by Michael Pollak and Margaret MacNabb. Alexandria, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 2000. 399pp. Paperback, $34.95. A recent special feature in The Australian asked a range of people what...

The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead.(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2000. Paperback, $32.95. The Magic Phrase: Critical Articles on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris,...

Christina Stead's Politics of Place.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Christina Stead's Politics of Place, by Ann Blake. Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. Paperback, $34.95. The Magic Phrase: Critical Articles on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris, appears in the Studies in...

Religiose Lyrik in Australien: Rezeption und Funktionalisierung theologischer und philosophischer Pratexte.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Religiose Lyrik in Australien: Rezeption und Funktionalisierung theologischer und philosophischer Pratexte [Religious Poetry in Australia: Reception and Application of Theological and Philosophical Texts], by Marion Spies. Hamburg: Verlag Dr....