Recently added articles from Australian Literary Studies:
'In the hollow of the heart': Dorothy Hewett's early imaginative life.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Dorothy Hewett, the little girl who wrote her first play at eleven years old and began writing poetry even before this, was to become both a respected poet and the first Australian woman playwright to win widespread recognition. (1) At fifteen she published her first poem and at eighteen ...
Literary festivals and cultural consumption.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [T]o understand the social genesis of the literary field--of the belief which sustains it, of the language game played in it, of the interests and the material or symbolic stakes engendered in it--is not to surrender to the pleasure of reduction or destruction ... (Bourdieu, The Rules of ...
The literary destruction of Canberra: Utopia, apocalypse and the national capital.(Canberra, Australia)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I have planned an ideal city, a city that meets my ideal of the city of the future. Walter Burley Griffin, 'Planning a Federal Capital'; qtd in Fischer (30) Canberra occupies an uncanny place in the Australian imagination. In theory, at least, as a planned city ...
Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... 'It comforts me' writes Alec to Judith in September 1964, 'that you are also engaged on a book of essays on Australian poetry. I have one about to come out on poetry in general (some Australian) and cannot help feeling that I ought not to be doing this sort of thing. Poets ought to write ...
Rereading David Malouf's Fly Away Peter: the great war, aboriginal dispossession, and the politics of remembering.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... <Pre>When the blackbird flew out of sight,It marked the edgeOf one of many circles.Wallace Stevens, 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' </Pre> Like the children's game recalled by its title, David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982) comprises an elementary ...