Australian Literary Studies articles from May 2005

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 2005

'Odysseus from the outback': Fredy Neptune in German and its critical reception.(Les Murray)
May 1, 2005... Friedrich Boettcher, alias Fredy Neptune, the Australian sailor of German immigrant background, witnesses the Turkish atrocities against the Armenians during the First World War. The shock of his life comes when he sees a group of women being...

Translating Fredy Neptune: interview with Thomas Eichhorn.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... The following is an interview by correspondence. In early June 2004 I sent a questionnaire with eight queries to Thomas Eichhorn, the highly praised German translator of Fredy Neptune. He lives in Leipzig, a city situated in the part of Germany...

Unknown Australia: Rosa Praed's vanished race.
May 1, 2005... I've often thought that telling a story of real life is something the same kind of process as building up the model of an antediluvian animal from a few fossilized bones. (Praed, Sister Sorrow: A Story of Australian Life, London: Hutchinson,...

Only 'a well-schooled interpreter': Henry Handel Richardson's final year at the Leipzig Conservatorium and its authorial recasting.
May 1, 2005... AGED nineteen, Henry Handel Richardson enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatorium of Music in April 1889, believing firmly that a major career as a concert pianist was in store for her. Up until then she had had praise heaped upon her playing. In...

Reflecting the detectives: crime fiction and the new journalism in late nineteenth-century Australia.
May 1, 2005... WHEN Fergus Hume's overweight and overly methodical detective, Gorby, in The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, visits the home of society bachelor Brian Fitzgerald to question his housekeeper, Mrs Sampson, regarding 'Mr Fitzgerald's habits,' she is...

Snake dreaming: the life-giving and life-taking powers of the snake.
May 1, 2005... THE first volume of Roberta Sykes's autobiographical trilogy, Snake Cradle, was published in 1997 to considerable acclaim: it was the winner of several prestigious prizes, including the Age Book of the Year Award. (1) As is well known, the...

Cultural cringe in academe: studying literature in the 1940s.
May 1, 2005... I was a World War One baby boomer, We, the children of returned men, those recently de-regimented and de-uniformed stiff-upperlippers, never came to hear of permissiveness, flower power, basic encounter groups, sensitivity training or being...

Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 2004.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... This is the forty-second 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 Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840, by Robert Jordan. Sydney: Currency House, 2002. Hardback, $49.95. 'We left our Country for our Country's good' about sums up what is generally known about the convict actors who ingeniously...

Patrick White: A Bibliography.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Patrick White: A Bibliography, by Brian Hubber and Vivian Smith. Auburn, Vic.: Quiddler's Press; USA and Canada: New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. Hardback, $95.00. The works of Patrick White have attracted more critical commentary...

After Electra: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... After Electra: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction, by Eden Liddelow. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002. Paperback, $49.95. The subtitle of Eden Liddelow's After Electra, 'rage, grief and hope in...

Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, by Maryrose Casey. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2004. Paperback, $29.95. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following review...

From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels, by Juliet Flesch. Fremantle, WA: Curtin University Books, 2004. Paperback, $29.95. When I'm told that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publishers whingeing...

Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment, edited by Paul Adams and Christopher Lee. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2003. Paperback, $39.95. Frank Hardy certainly enjoyed the controversy he attracted while he was alive, and doubtless he would...

Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures, by Tseen-Ling Khoo. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2003. $69.95. The etymology of the term 'banana'--yellow on the outside, white on the inside -coupled with 'bending'--a...

Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, edited by Elizabeth Schafer and Susan Bradley Smith. Australian Playwrights 9. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. Paperback, US$35 Playing Australia is both interestingly helpful and...

Books Received.
May 1, 2005... 'Another Country'. Special Issue of Southerly 64.1 (2004). Guest editors: Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally. $21.95. Letters, diaries, prose, poetry, and a play script by inmates in Australian refugee detention centres/concentration camps. ...

An excellent teacher and lover of literature: Elizabeth May Perkins O.A.M.(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... ELIZABETH Perkins passed away peacefully at the Wesley Park Haven Hospital in Townsville on 17 February 2004. She suffered from arthritis and bronchitis, complaints that she bore for many years with determination and good humour. Her loss is...