Recently added articles from Australian Literary Studies:
'Simple facts of light and stone': the eco-phenomenology of Anthony Lawrence.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Bitto, Emily ... 'outside myself/there is a world' William Carlos Williams, Paterson (57) DESPITE the fact that Anthony Lawrence has been publishing poetry for almost twenty years, producing nine collections since Dreaming in Stone appeared in 1989, and has been awarded numerous prizes, (1) his ...
Australian Letters and postwar modernity.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Sheridan, Susan ... AUSTRALIAN Letters, 'a quarterly review of writing and criticism', was launched in Adelaide in 1957. Max Harris, co-owner of the Mary Martin Bookshop, poet Geoffrey Dutton and Bryn Davies (both members of the English Department at Adelaide University) were its initial editors. In 1963, on ...
Anachronism, ekphrasis and the 'shape of time' in The Great Fire.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Olubas, Brigitta ... READERS of Shirley Hazzard's fiction have long been familiar with the ways her densely allusive prose embeds her stories and her characters in European art and writing. While the plots of her novels follow the political and social dramas of the decades following the Second World War, their ...
The Eco-humanities as literature: a new genre?(Essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Robin, Libby ... WE have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. There is now considerable evidence that humanity has altered the biophysical systems of Earth, not just the carbon cycle which has been the focus of much recent politics, but also the nitrogen cycle and ultimately the ...
Adapting Australian novels for the stage: La Boite Theatre's versions of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Tompkins, Joanne ... IN the latest expression of its mandate to stage a broadly-defined Queensland, the Brisbane-based La Boite Theatre has turned to adapting local works. This is not new for the theatre--Rosamond Siemon's The Mayne Inheritance was adapted by Errol O'Neill for the 2004 season, and several Nick ...
Bottling the forbidden fruit: Marion Halligan's fiction.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; Jones, Dorothy ... MARION Halligan's writing dwells on the pleasures of daily life, and while readers can readily connect with this celebration of ordinariness, recognising in it patterns of our own existence, such subject matter can also provoke doubt, even distrust. A strain of residual Puritanism in ...
Annual bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2007.(Bibliography)
Apr 01, 2008; Hetherington, Carol ... This is the forty-fifth annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of books and articles on Australian literature. It ...
The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Thieme, John ... The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje, by Lamia Tayeb. Lewiston, US; Queenston, CAN; Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen, 2006. Hardback, US$119.95. This is a ...
Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Damousi, Joy ... Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia, by Margaret Henderson. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006. Paperback, 52.30 [euro]. The study of feminist cultural memory is not a wide field of scholarship in Australia and it certainly has not as yet become a ...
Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Taylor, Anthea ... Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews, edited by Angela Bennie. Carlton: Miegunyah, 2006. Paperback, $34.95. Angela Bennie's Creme de la Phlegm collects Australian book reviews published in the so-called mainstream press, including state and national newspapers, ...
Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Wood, Alison ... Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, by Cassandra L. Atherton. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006. Paperback, $34.95. At last count Gwen Harwood employed no less than 13 pseudonyms during her writing life, an achievement ...
The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Smith, Vivian ... The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism, by Katherine Barnes. Leiden: Brill. Aries Book Series, 2006. Hardback, 130.00 [euro]. Some years ago a well known anthologist and critic tried to justify his omission of the work of Christopher ...
Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Jacobs, Lyn ... Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds, edited by Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. Hardback, 34.99 [pounds sterling], US$69.99. This publication offers an overdue acknowledgement of Thea Astley's achievement and a timely appraisal of her reputation as ...
Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; O'Reilly, Nathanael ... Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction, by Salhia Ben-Messahel. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. Paperback, $39.95. Twenty-five years have passed since Tim Winton was the joint winner of The Australian/ Vogel National Literary Award in 1981, which led to ...
Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia.(Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; McNulty, Eugene ... Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia, by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Hardback, $144. Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre, by Joanne Tompkins. Basingstoke, ...
Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Jacklin, Michael ... Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India, edited by Anuraag Sharma and Pradeep Trikha. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006. Hardback, US$25.00. The reading of Australian literature from international perspectives is vital, not only for the publication and promotion ...
Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2008; Mellick, Stanton ... Dear editor ALS 23.1, with its war-related articles was, for a now 'old' (in more ways than one) Second AIF army man, a most interesting issue. The articles prompt some reflections which may be of interest. They relate to the continued presence of World War I in the public ...