Anthony J. Hassall Anthony J. Hassall i(A14823 works by) (a.k.a. Tony Hassall)
Born: Established: 1939 Young, Cootamundra - Young - Harden area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Going Underground on the Sunshine Coast: Peter Carey's His Illegal Self Anthony J. Hassall , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 24 no. 2 2017; (p. 242-252)

'Peter Carey has said of his 2008 novel, His Illegal Self, that it grew from an image he recalled of a hippie mother and her son wandering along the edge of the Bruce Highway near Caboolture, and an American who arrived in his commune near Yandina who turned out to be a drug dealer wanted by the FBI. In typical Carey fashion, the three central characters in His Illegal Self are in the process of escaping from the narratives that have been imposed upon them, and metamorphosing into different and better selves. His Illegal Self is the first of Carey's books in which he reverses the angle of vision on the cross-cultural comparison of Australia and America that has engaged him throughout his career. This reverse comparison is set some thirty-five years in the past, against a background of the protest movements against the Vietnam War in both countries. Unlike several of his earlier novels, His Illegal Self lacks a pronounced sense of self-conscious storytelling, and this increases the direct emotional impact of the novel, intensifying the reader's empathy with the characters’ emergence from their imposed identities.'

1 High Wire Act : Peter Carey’s 'My Life as a Fake' Anthony J. Hassall , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 6 no. 1 2015;

This essay examines how Carey displays the multiple fakeries of fiction in My Life as a Fake. It notes the multiple inter-textual references to the Ern Malley hoax and the gothic horror of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It examines the three unreliable narrating voices, the uneven characterisation of Christopher Chubb, and the magic realism seeking to animate Bob McCorkle and his present/absent book My Life as a Fake. It argues that the dazzling display of meta-fictional complexity, much celebrated by reviewers, contributes to the book's failure to create engaging characters and a credible narrative. [From the journal's webpage]

1 Whatever Happened to Australian Literature in the Universities? Anthony J. Hassall , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 55 no. 10 2011; (p. 30-34)
1 It's Academic Anthony J. Hassall , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24 -25 September 2011; (p. 18-19)
Tony Hassall argues that there is an unprecedented disconnect between Australian schools and universities and the reading public.
1 Randolph Stow : A Memoir Anthony J. Hassall , 2010 single work biography
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 55 no. 2 2010; (p. 120-125)
1 Randolph 'Mick' Stow Anthony J. Hassall , 2010 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 42 no. 3 2010; (p. 24-27)
1 Peter Carey Papers Anthony J. Hassall , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 192-193)
1 A Fortunate Life Anthony J. Hassall , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Bruce Dawe : Life Cycle Stephany Steggall , 2009 single work biography
1 Vanishing Wunderkind Anthony J. Hassall , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 314 2009; (p. 29-31)
1 The Vulture Heart Anthony J. Hassall , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 311 2009; (p. 58-59)

— Review of The Complete Poems of T. H. Jones T. Harri Jones , 2008 collected work poetry
1 Untitled Anthony J. Hassall , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 8 2008; (p. 185-188)

— Review of The Third Metropolis : Imagining Brisbane Through Art and Literature, 1940-1970 William Hatherell , 2007 single work criticism ; Words to Walk By : Exploring Literary Brisbane Todd Barr , Rodney Sullivan , 2005 single work prose
1 Ignorance of Bliss Anthony J. Hassall , 2008 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 3 no. 2 2008; (p. 26)
Tony Hassall points out several mistakes in John Hay's review of Peter Carey's His Illegal Self. ALR's editor acknowledges the errors.
1 The Wide Brown Land : Literary Readings of Space and the Australian Continent Anthony J. Hassall , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 45-53)
'In his 1987 poem "Louvres" Les Murray speaks of journeys to 'the three quarters of our continent/set aside for mystic poetry" (2002, 239), a very different reading of Australia's inner space to A.D. Hope's 1939 vision of it as '[t]he Arabian desert of the human mind" (1966, 13) In this paper I review the opposed, contradictory ways in which the inner space of Australia has been perceived by Australian writers, and note changes in those literary perceptions, especially in the last fifty years. In that time what was routinely categerised, by Patrick White among others, as the "Dead heart" (1974, 94) - the disappointing desert encountered by nineteenth=century European explorers looking for another America -has been re-mythologised as the "Red Centre," the symbolic, living heart of the continent. What Barcroft Boake's 1897 poem hauntingly portrayed as out where the dead men lie" (140,-2) is now more commonly imagined as a site of spiritual exploration and psychic renewal, a place where Aboriginal identification with the land is respected and even shared. This change was powerfully symbolised in 1985 by the return to the traditional Anangu owners of the title deeds to the renamed Uluru, the great stone sited at the centre of the continent; but while this re-mythologising has been increasingly influential in literary readings, older, more negative constructions of that space as hostile and sterile have persisted, so that contradictory attitudes towards the inner space of Australia continue to be expressed. In reviewing a selection of those readings, I am conscious that they both distort and influence broader cultural perceptions. I am also aware that literary reconstructions of the past reflect both the attitudes of the time depicted and the current attitudes of the writer, and that separating the two is seldom simple. Finally, I am conscious of the connections between literary readings and those in art and film of the kind documented by Roslynn Hanes in her 1998 study Seeking the Centre: the Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, and those in television and advertising. I have however, with the exception of the Postscript, limited my paper to literary readings, with an emphasis on works published since Haynes's study.' (Author's abstract p. 45)
1 How Do You Know? Anthony J. Hassall , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , November-December no. 34 2007; (p. 110-111)

— Review of Theft : A Love Story Peter Carey , 2006 single work novel
1 The Year's Work in Fiction Anthony J. Hassall , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 52 no. 2007; (p. 187-199)

— Review of The Best Australian Stories 2006 2006 anthology short story extract ; Love Without Hope Rodney Hall , 2007 single work novel ; India Vik Liz Gallois , 2006 selected work short story ; Glass Adriana Moya Ellis , 2006 selected work short story ; The Unknown Terrorist Richard Flanagan , 2006 single work novel ; The Unexpected Elements of Love Kate Legge , 2006 single work novel ; Nights in the Asylum Carol Lefevre , 2007 single work novel ; The American Brother Manfred Jurgensen , 2007 single work novel ; Sorry Gail Jones , 2007 single work novel ; Swallow the Air Tara June Winch , 2003 selected work short story ; The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles Elizabeth Stead , 2007 single work novel ; Careless Deborah Robertson , 2006 single work novel ; Feather Man Rhyll McMaster , 2007 single work novel ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel
1 A Wildly Distorted Account? : Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney Anthony J. Hassall , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 319-333)
Hassall argues that 30 Days in Sydney is consistent both with Carey's 'career-long preoccupation with re-telling aspects of Australia's story' and 'with his practice of doing so via distortions which defamiliarize his subjects, thereby enabling his readers to see them free of those other distortions naturalized by habit and convention. What appears to begin as factual celebrity travel writing ... turns into a collection of stories, of fictions, of beuatiful lies which capture more searchingly than a merely factual travelogue the look, the feel, the history and the spirit of Sydney, that metonym for Australia' (331-332)
1 A Much Healthier All-Round View Anthony J. Hassall , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 268 2005; (p. 38)

— Review of A Love Affair with Australian Literature : The Story of Tom Inglis Moore Pacita Alexander , Elizabeth Perkins , 2004 single work biography
1 Peter Carey Anthony J. Hassall , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers , 1950-1975 2004; (p. 53-62)
1 1 The Deserted Village? Thea Astley's Drylands Anthony J. Hassall , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'Unemployed at Last!' : Essays on Australian Literature to 2002 for Julian Croft 2002; (p. 147-160)
Explores the discrepancies between Astley's extra-fictional positive comments about country towns in Queensland and her representation of country-town culture in some of her novels, particularly Drylands, as ugly, brutal and barely literate. Hassall argues that this contradiction could be another paradoxical version of the 'Sydney or the Bush' topos in Australian literature and culture.
1 Randolph Stow (1935- ) Anthony J. Hassall , 2002 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers, 1915-1950 2002; (p. 382-391)
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