Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2003

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2003

Textual phantasmagoria: Marcus Clarke, light literature and the colonial uncanny.
October 1, 2003... Canonical British Romanticism, at least according to its own self-image, is sharply juxtaposed to the popular. In Book VII of the Prelude, William Wordsworth's description of London, and the forms of popular culture associated with it,...

Some versions of Manifold: Brisbane and the 'myth' of John Manifold.
October 1, 2003... The publication of John Manifold's Collected Verse and Rodney Hall's J.S. Manifold: An Introduction to the Man and His Work in 1978 prompted something of a public debate about the place of this enigmatic figure in Australian cultural life. The...

Un/making sexuality: Such is Life and the observant queer reader.
October 1, 2003... An organising trope of the critical response to Joseph Furphy's Such is Life (1903), especially since the 1940s, has been the novel's ambiguity (see Thomson). The focus of this scholarly interest is the unreliably erudite and sometimes...

The Great Southern Land: Asian-Australian women writers re-view the Australian landscape.
October 1, 2003... Representations of Asian women in Australian literature have much in common with popular representations of the landscape: both tend to be depicted as highly sexualized, yet passive; erratic, cruel, and unforgiving. (1) Though this similarity...

Wishing for political dominance: representations of history and community in Queer Theory.
October 1, 2003... Thomas Piontek contends that 'for many people their sense of being gay relies intensely on literary representations' (137). Though his argument refers mainly to fiction, in this essay I want to extend Piontek's contention and suggest that one's...

Setting the record straight: bibliography and Australian literature.
October 1, 2003... The AustLit Gateway is the result of a collaboration between eight Australian universities and the National Library of Australia. It began in 1999 'when a group of Australian universities, which had developed general and specialist Australian...

Australian literary lives.
October 1, 2003... As I know from my own recent experience with the Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2000), being invited by an international publisher to edit a major reference work on Australian Literature, aimed at an international audience, can...

Patrick White and Alchemy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Patrick White and Alchemy. by James Bulman-May. Kew, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2001. Hardback, $55.00 Patrick White, Painter Manque: Paintings, Painters and Their Influence on His Writing, by Helen Verity Hewitt. Carlton, Vic.:...

Between Literature and Painting: Three Australian Women Writers.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... by Roberta Buffi. New York: Peter Lang 2002. Hardback US$55.95 Roberta Buffi's project is concerned with contextualising the writing of Janine Burke, Beverley Farmer and Drusilla Modjeska within the politics and aesthetic theories of the...

The Default Country: a Lexical Cartography of Twentieth Century Australia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... by J.M. Arthur. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2003. Paperback, $39.95 It must have been a satisfying find. From the Brigalow Farm Management Handbook (1976) Jay Arthur reports the observation that 'generally it takes two...

Homage to John Forbes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... edited by Ken Bolton. Rose Bay, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002. Paperback, $28.95. Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love--a member of the inner sanctum, the faction, their club. And someone they want to promote to the...

'Why not sausages?'.(The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination, by Richard Nile. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2002. Paperback, $28.00. To someone who teaches the history, theory and practice of editing and publishing, Richard Nile's...

Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... edited by Bruce Bennett, Susan Cowan, Jacqueline Lo, Satendra Nandan, and Jen Webb. Canberra: Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2003. Paperback, $25.00 The triennial conferences of the Association for...

Island and Otherland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... by Noel Henricksen. Melbourne: Educare, 2003. Paperback, $29.95. Within the publishing arena, Christopher Koch, one of Australia's leading novelists, stands out somewhat as an enigma. Indeed, this Tasmanian-born writer whose books are...

Rolf Boldrewood: a Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... by Paul de Serville. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Miegunyah Press Series. $59.95. This is a fascinating subject for a biography. Thomas Browne was author of one of the best-known Australian novels of the nineteenth...

Books received.(Australien: Eine interdisziplinare Einfuhrung)(Politics, Power and Poetry: An Intercultural Perspective on Aboriginal Identity in Black Australian Poetry)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Bader, Rudolf, ed. Australien: Eine interdisziplinare Einfuhrung [Australia: An interdisciplinary introduction]. Trier, Germany: WVT: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1996. The sections on Australian literature (271-384), with contributions by...