Australian Literary Studies articles from October 1997

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 1997

The English Men: Professing Literature in Australian Universities.
October 1, 1997... By Leigh Dale. Canberra: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1997. Paper $25.00. These two titles are the first in a series of specialised monographs published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature [ASAL]....

A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career.
October 1, 1997... By David Carter. Canberra: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1997. Paper $25.00. These two titles are the first in a series of specialised monographs published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature [ASAL]....

Peter Carey.
October 1, 1997... By Graham Huggan. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper $19.95. Does any internationally regarded Australian writer have a more unsettled reputation than Peter Carey? This is not simply a matter, as Graham Huggan says in his study,...

The Gimbals of Unease: The Poetry of Francis Webb.
October 1, 1997... By Bill Ashcroft. Nedlands: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, 1996. Paper, $23.95. Bill Ashcroft's monograph on the poetry of Francis Webb is an eccentric but valuable book. Some of the eccentricity derives from the poet himself:...

A Woman's Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets.
October 1, 1997... By Jenny Digby. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Paper, $29.95. Bill Ashcroft's monograph on the poetry of Francis Webb is an eccentric but valuable book. Some of the eccentricity derives from the poet himself: Webb is,...

Henry Handel Richardson.
October 1, 1997... by Michael Ackland. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paper, $19.95. It is fascinating to watch the ebbs and flows of the reputations of various Australian writers. Someone like Douglas Stewart, for example, for years so much at the...

The Tomis Complex: Exile and Eros in Australian Literature.
October 1, 1997... by Irina Grigorescu Pana. Berne: Peter Lang, 1996. Paper, $73.50. It is fascinating to watch the ebbs and flows of the reputations of various Australian writers. Someone like Douglas Stewart, for example, for years so much at the centre of...

Studies in Classic Australian Fiction.
October 1, 1997... by Michael Wilding. Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, University of Sydney, 1997. Paper, $25.00. In the absence of any introduction this collection of critical essays leaves its readers to interpret its challenging...

Randolph Stow's 'Outrider' and the French voyager poem.
October 1, 1997... Whereas the negative early criticism of Tourmaline (1963) found cogent, if belated rebuttal in the articles of A.D. Hope and Helen Tiffin that appeared ten years after what became known as `the Tourmaline affair', an equivalent process of...

A tale of two countries: 'Jack Maggs' and Peter Carey's fiction.
October 1, 1997... `And did you like Dickens at the end of it?' `I never did like or dislike him... All I wanted to do was understand him.' (Ackroyd 896) `You are planning to kill me, I know that...' `Not you, Jack, a character who bears your name...' `You...

'By what sign/are you walking?': the poetry of Judith Rodriguez.
October 1, 1997... A pretence -- or enabling lie -- still haunts the writing and criticism of poetry: that it can be written for, and read by, `the tribe'. This presence, shared in different ways by both Romantic and Modernist, is still deeply held, even if...

The ethics of abjection: Patrick White's 'Riders in the Chariot.'
October 1, 1997... Michael Wilding has recently discussed Patrick White's modernism in terms of White's disdain for what he famously called the `exaltation of the "average"' in Australian society (Patrick White Speaks 15). As Wilding shows it is not difficult to...

Un-Australian activities?: Mary Gilmore's versions from the Spanish.
October 1, 1997... Somewhere around 1915-18, Mary Gilmore worked on assembling a collection of poems translated from, or based on, Spanish originals. The Mitchell Library hold two typescript copies of a set of 27 poems, entitled FROM THE SPANISH; these...

Gender, genre, and Sybylla's performative identity in Miles Franklin's 'My Brilliant Career.'
October 1, 1997... Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to `tone down' her narrative, and `religious, political and sex-problem passages' made Henry...

Tales of old travel: predecessors of David Malouf's 'The Conversations at Curlow Creek.'
October 1, 1997... David Malouf's most recent novel The Conversations at Curlow Creek is written in the style of a fable, a story whose basic structure is familiar to us. Two boys grow up together in a great house in Ireland around 1800. One, Michael Adair, an...

An interview with Judith Rodriguez. (Australian poet)(Interview)
October 1, 1997... Can you say a little bit about the role that poetry has played in your life? I can't really lay a date to the feeling that my identity was bound up with writing. I think quite early in school in Brisbane I was told I was good at it and my...

Spatialised time and circular time: a note on time in the work of Gerald Murnane and Jorge-Luis Borges.
October 1, 1997... The image of the journey in time characterises much of twentieth-century fiction -- Joyce, Mann, Proust, Svevo and Woolf bear witness -- and finds in Australian writing a fertile ground. In fact, the interplay between past and present appears to...

'Beyond the regions of ordinary Lady verse': two uncollected poems by Louisa Anne Meredith.
October 1, 1997... In 1839 the published writer and poet Louisa Anne Twamley married her cousin Charles Meredith and accompanied him almost immediately to Australia. From Australia she later continued her successful writing career, and as Mrs Meredith published...

Peter Carey.
October 1, 1997... By Bruce Woodcock. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Paper 8.99 [pounds sterling]. Hb, 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Does any internationally regarded Australian writer have a more unsettled reputation than Peter Carey? This is not...

Henry Handel Richardson.
October 1, 1997... edited by Susan Lever and Catherine Pratt. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997. Paper, $19.95. It is fascinating to watch the ebbs and flows of the reputations of various Australian writers. Someone like Douglas Stewart, for example,...