Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2005

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2005

Finding home: the poetry of Margaret Scott.(Biography)
October 1, 2005... For Margaret, treasured colleague and friend Margaret Scott grew up in the countryside near Bristol. After graduating from Cambridge University, she immigrated to Hobart in 1959 with her young family. She taught in the English Department of...

Imagining transcendence: the poetry of David Malouf.
October 1, 2005... Ivor Indyk suggests that An Imaginary Life needs to be regarded as one of the most theoretical works of Australian fiction, at the same time that it is considered one of its most poetic (26) Indyk's observation recognises a significant impulse...

In the beginning: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life.
October 1, 2005... The study of Malouf's work-in-progress for An Imaginary Life offers insights into the author s intentions in this important second novel, first published by George Braziller in New York in 1978. The discussion will focus first on Malouf's...

Poetry's 'formative power': teaching poetry in Tasmania 1900-1950.
October 1, 2005... Poetry has always featured in formal learning programs, but both its function and importance have varied over time according to political and social needs. In his analysis of texts used in the teaching of English from the sixteenth century to...

The golden fish: on reading J.S. Harry.
October 1, 2005... J.S. Harry has long been considered a curious and individual voice in Australian verse. Her diverse experimental poetry consistently examines the behaviour and fluidity of language, and much of this can be observed through her engagement with...

'Composing the self': metaphors of creativity in Henry Handel Richardson's Myself When Young.
October 1, 2005... No, I do not write poetry. My efforts in that direction ceased long ago; & long ago were all burned. Of recent years, when I have felt "lyrically" inclined, I have turned to music, which has always contested the literary interest in my mind--or...

'Ntranscended/life itself'- the poetry of Pam Brown.(Biography)
October 1, 2005... There are many ways to peel an onion: sharp knife and tears; under water like your mother taught you; surreptitiously, creeping in, layer by layer; or with sunglasses on. And cunning poet Pam Brown knows them all. There they are, those...

'Phrases between us': the poetry of Anna Wickham.
October 1, 2005... Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, social worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published, a biography in 2003, a book which reveals a great deal about Wickham s struggle as a poet but which is not widely held...

Under the influence? Adam McCay: journalist, poet, letter writer and influential friend.(Biography)
October 1, 2005... Adam McCay (1874-1947) was a leading Sydney journalist, but hoped to be remembered as a poet. Although he was a mentor to Kenneth Slessor, who addressed the poem 'To a Friend' to him, Slessor critics are inclined to see him as a bad influence....

City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... City Bushman. Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination, by Christopher Lee. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, an imprint of Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. $29.95. 'For me', writes Christopher Lee in his introduction to City...

Bluestocking in Patagonia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Bluestocking in Patagonia, by Anne Whitehead. London: Profile Books, 2004. Paperback, $24.95. The story of William Lane's Utopian colony in Paraguay has been a subject of enduring fascination for Australian writers. The historians include...

Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift, by Max Brown. Sydney: Rosenberg, 2004. $29.95. Charmian Clift, novelist and essayist, once scrawled on the back of a manuscript, 'She also has a life in the vertical...

The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1950-1975, vol. 289.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 289." Australian Writers 1950-1975, edited by Selma Samuels. South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Minnesota: Gale, 2004. Hardback, US$205. Volume 289 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography...

Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mongrel Signatures. Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo, edited by Annalisa Oboe. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. US$35. To attempt to compile a critical study of this prominent Australian writer is a controversial exercise in itself, and one...

Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mixed Media. Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics, by Simone Murray. London: Pluto Press, 2004. Paperback, $49.95. (1) The critical questions addressed by Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics highlight some of the...

Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Austral-Asian Encounters. From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism, edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan. New Delhi: Prestige, 2003. US$30. Austral-Asian Encounters is a collection of papers presented at...

Books received.
October 1, 2005... Atkinson, Jeff. Mary Proctor. Convict, Pioneer and Settler. Dural, NSW: Rosenberg, 2005. The biography of a female convict transported to Australia in the 1820s. Covers her trial, transportation, and time in Van Diemen's Land, as well as...