Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2000

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2000

`Touches of Nature that Make the Whole World Kin': Furphy, Race and Anxiety.(writer Joseph Furphy)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2000... What appealed to generations of readers in Furphy can trouble a late twentieth-century reader: its call to nationhood, to one (white and assimilationist) nation; its lack of self-consciousness about what that meant in terms of dispossession of...

A.D. Hope and the Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes.(poet)
October 1, 2000... I was then your music and you mine (`Vivaldi, Bird and Angel') Among Australian poets, few owe a greater part of their inspiration to Eros than A.D. Hope. `Love and desire have prompted some of his best poetry', Candida Baker noted, `and...

"Talking with Yagan's Head': The Poetry of John Mateer.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2000... I knelt down and found a seedling (Marri) and a softening banksia finger patterned like plaid. Between my four thumbs it crumbled. A brown fibre. Looks and smells like snuff. `Looks and smells like snuff,' I tell myself, asking who I...

Colonial Gothic: Morbid Anatomy, Commodification and Critique in Marcus Clarke's The Mystery of Major Molineux.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2000... Gothic fiction, at least as it developed in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, typically stages an encounter with difference. In this encounter an established set of social relations is shown to be premised on...

Revisiting the `Mystery of a Novel Contest': The Daily Telegraph and 'Come in Spinner.'(1945 literary contest)
October 1, 2000... The terms of the contest, launched in late 1945, seemed straightforward enough. The Sydney Daily Telegraph would award 1000 [pounds sterling] for the best Australian novel and publish the winning manuscript in Australia and overseas (`Telegraph...

Roy Bridges's Fictions of Van Diemen's Land.(Australian author)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2000... Had he been on their case, one can imagine F.R. Leavis intoning `We will not reckon Bryce Courtenay a writer of historical fiction to appeal to adult minds if we think of Roy Bridges'. No Australian author of such fiction had so long a career...

Starting a Journal: ALS, Hobart 1963: James McAuley, A D Hope and Geoffrey Dutton.(Australian Literary Studies)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2000... The approach of the fortieth year of ALS, and a recent visit to Hobart,(1) brought back memories of how the journal began. I would like here to recover aspects of these as I remember them. The journal was launched at the University of...

JUDITH WRIGHT: CORRECTIONS TO BIOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.(volume 19, number 2, 1999)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Judith Wright commented by letter:(1) Veronica Brady's biography South of My Days was rather hastily published, to take commercial advantage of an Adelaide Festival which featured my work, and errors it contained have not yet been corrected...

Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, by Carole Ferrier. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Hardback $49.95. Carole Ferrier's biography of Jean Devanny (1894-1962) involves the recovery not only of a neglected woman writer, but...

The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography, by Gillian Whitlock. London and New York: Cassell, 2000. Hardback, US$75.00 What seems to be a particularly recent interest in autobiography and biography, indeed in all forms of what is...