Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2006

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2006

Judith Wright and Frank Scott: gendering modernist networks in Australia and Canada.
October 1, 2006... Marian Dale Scott, F.R. Scott Reading in Bed (1) In a pen-and-ink sketch held in the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian modernist artist Marian Dale Scott depicts one of Canada's founding modernist poets, her husband Frank Scott....

Authors, editors, publishers: Katharine Susannah Prichard and W.W. Norton.(William Warder Norton)(Viewpoint essay)
October 1, 2006... The pivotal role of England in Australian literary production in the nineteenth and early twentieth century has been thoroughly documented by literary historians and bibliographers. Richard Nile and David Walker, Stephen Alomes, and Roslyn...

Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla: the politics of conformity in White and Cheever.(Patrick White's The Night the Prowler and John Cheever's The Housebreaker of Shady Hill)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Patrick White and the American writer John Cheever have a number of things in common: both are satirical modernist writers; both struggled with forms of depression, surreptitiously linked in their fiction to the suburbs of their respective...

'Unexpected effects': Marked Men in contemporary Australian women's fiction.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Since the late 1980s, men's (often damaged) bodies have increasingly been at the centre of novels by Australian women. Moreover, the extent of the focus on damage has grown: while damaged men frequently appear in novels by women published...

'Some presence inevitably shows through': Harold Stewart's haiku versions.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... For some decades, there has been a view that Harold Stewart is one of Australian poetry's unfairly overlooked voices, a judgement that has generally gone unquestioned. It has had a fair airing in recent years with Michael Ackland's dual...

'What would civilisation be without a gun?' The resistant land in Sarah Campion's Burdekin trilogy.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Elizabeth Lawson's 'biographical-critical survey' published in ALS in 2004 was the most recent of several efforts to win for Sarah Campion's novels the attention that their literary distinction warrants. (1) Due attention has been deferred, I...

Reading Kate Llewellyn's Garden (Books).(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Saturday, 29th April Today I sowed blue lobelia and Pacific Giant pansies. The coriander and the stocks have sprouted green on the grey soil. With what ardour I go out each morning peering through my reading glasses. Yet I miss so much....

'This isn't a novel. It is a life!': Dymphna Cusack and Caddie: A Sydney Barmaid.(Caddie: A Sydney Barmaid, an Autobiography Written by Herself)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... In 1953 an Australian book, 'a barmaid's book', with its tales of 'Sydney's raging thirst' reportedly shocked London readers. 'Its objective account of Sydney's primitive drinking habits has lifted an otherwise nondescript book into a...

'How newness (not) Comes into the World': Eva Rask Knudsen's The Circle and the Spiral.(The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Perhaps one of the most remarkable features of postcolonial criticism is its seemingly endless capacity for self-critique. Matching, if not eclipsing, the charges laid against the field by critics of postcolonialism, postcolonial critics...

Challenging voices: tracing the problematic role of testimony in political change.(Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Politics of Recognition)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Human Rights and Narrated Lives. The Politics of Recognition, by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith is a challenging and ambitious book. (1) It should be read because it raises so many important and urgent questions. But it must be read with...

Henry Handel Richardson. A Life.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Henry Handel Richardson. A Life, by Michael Ackland. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $59.95. Biography--life-writing--is a popular form these days. Ian Britain editorialised in Meanjin that in many cases it sells rather...

Cross-cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo).(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Cross-cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo), by Clare Archer-Lean. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Hardback US$119.95. Clare Archer-Lean's contemplative, border-crossing study draws on a...

Not Wrong - Just Different: Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatre.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Not Wrong--Just Different: Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatre, by Katharine Brisbane. Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. $34.95. Throughout a long and distinguished career, Katharine Brisbane has been deeply and...

Victor J. Daley (A Life).(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Victor J. Daley (A Life), by Frank Molloy. Sydney: Crossing Press, 2004. Paperback. $24. The research evidenced in Frank Molloy's Victor J. Daley (A Life) is of the kind which exists at the heart of contemporary Irish-Australian Studies,...

Books received.
October 1, 2006... Barnett, Tully, Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex, Rick Hosking and Graham Tulloch, ed. London Was Full of Rooms. Adelaide: Lythrum P, 2006. Paperback, 268 pp. $29.95. A collection of essays and poems offering the responses of writers and artists to...