Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2001

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2001

Introduction.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 1, 2001... The purpose of this book (also a special issue of Australian Literary Studies, 20.2) is to use a collection of essays to focus critical attention on Les Murray's poetry in its impressive variety and bulk. Contributors chose their own...

Les Murray: watching with his mouth.
October 1, 2001... Murray's books are dedicated `To the greater glory of God', which provides a bond with Hopkins who, as a Jesuit, sailed under the same flag. There are other bonds. Here, for instance, are two passages from Hopkins's `Notebooks and Papers'. Both...

`This country is my mind': Les Murray's poetics of place.
October 1, 2001... In his relief at being `home again from the cities of the world', the persona in `Evening Alone at Bunyah' goes to study the moonlit view from the room where he slept as a child. What he sees is more than an intimately known landscape: ...

Folie, topography and family in Murray's middle-distance poems.(Les Murray)
October 1, 2001... Despite the rapidity of change in the character of Murray's shorter poems, critics have made headway discussing and categorising his odes, verse essays and meditations, his satires, dramatic monologues and historical narratives, along with the...

Dancing `on bits of paper': Les Murray's soundscapes.
October 1, 2001... A central aspect of Les Murray's art is his notion of `Wholespeak', as it is defined in his essays `Embodiment and Incarnation', `Poems and Poesies', and `Poemes and the Mystery of Embodiment'. Humans, Murray notes, have `two main modes of...

Les Murray's `Narrowspeak'.
October 1, 2001... Though half in jest, Les Murray speaks of his prose writings -- in comparison with his poetry -- as `Narrowspeak'. Not long ago he had the chance of speaking to a whole people and to posterity through his prose. The paragraphs for which Murray...

`Big poems burn women': Fredy Neptune's democratic sailor and Walcott's epic Omeros.(Derek Walcott)
October 1, 2001... The dust cover and the epigraph of Les Murray's Fredy Neptune (1998) draw our attention to the episode that provides the prerequisite for the poem's narrative: `the incineration of defenceless Armenian women by a mob' early in World War I. (1)...

The art of `cracking normal'.(Les Murray)
October 1, 2001... Les Murray's essay `How Fred and I wrote Fredy Neptune' (Craven 304) begins with a discussion of the book's dislike of `the lofty class-terminology of literary studies'. This critical obstacle is also a clue to Fredy Neptune's significance in...

Fredy Neptune: metonymy and the incarnate preposition.(Australian poem)
October 1, 2001... January 27, anniversary of the `liberation' of Auschwitz in 1945, is now honoured as `Holocaust Remembrance Day' in many nations of the western world. This year, 2001, the day was marred by controversy, and one could hardly expect anything...

Justice, sacrifice and the mother's poem.
October 1, 2001... `Must I guess human sacrifice is at the heart of literature?' (The Boys Who Stole the Funeral 29) In 1999, when Peter Alexander's Les Murray: A Life in Progress almost appeared (1), literature did seem ready to take a few human sacrifices....

Les Murray: a selective checklist.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2001... This checklist comprises material from The ALS Guide to Australian Writers; A Bibliography 1963-1995 together with additional material from subsequent ALS annual bibliographies and information about other bibliographic resources. As the product...