John Frow John Frow i(A25739 works by)
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1 On Intergenerational Justice John Frow , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 71 2023; (p. 24-36)
'ONE OF THE TROPES THAT RUNS THROUGH MANY VICTORIAN NOVELS—THOSE OF Dickens, of Wilkie Collins, of Sheridan Le Fanu, and many others—is the plot device of a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits. In Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas a codicil to her father’s will requires Mary to live with her wicked uncle as a condition of her inheritance; if she dies before she comes of age the uncle will inherit the estate, and that condition then motivates a series of attempts against Mary’s life. In Bleak House the conflicting wills in Jarndyce and Jarndyce drive several generations of claimants to poverty and despair before a newly revealed will closes the case, with almost all of the inheritance swallowed up in legal fees. And in Charles Palliser’s magnificent pastiche of the Victorian novel, The Quincunx, the codicil to a will brings about the prolonged suffering of the hero, the forced prostitution and death of his mother, and the eventual collapse of the estate.' (Introduction) 
1 Imagining the Pacific : In the Wake of the Cook Voyages John Frow , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodean Perspective : Selected Writings of Bernard Smith 2018;
1 Questions of Address : For Meaghan Morris John Frow , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , March vol. 24 no. 1 2018; (p. 46-49)

'In beginning to prepare this tribute to Meaghan Morris’s work I went to the bulging folder that contains the letters and postcards and draft papers she sent me over a period of about twenty years, from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (more recently we’ve communicated almost entirely by email). One of the things that strikes me, looking through these pages with their typewritten text full of crossings-out and handwritten marginalia, is the enormous care Meaghan gives to her intellectual relationships, in my case with someone she didn’t know all that well, who lived on the other side of the country, and with whom there were significant points of intellectual difference. One of the letters I’m going to quote from is ten closely typed pages long, and to write it she would first have to have read, closely and carefully, a dense and abstruse paper of mine, set in what looks like 8-point font and to me today almost unreadable. Now consider that I was just one of Meaghan’s correspondents. I don’t know how many people received letters like this from her, but I’m pretty sure she had ongoing written conversations with a number of other people in Australia and elsewhere. Meaghan was and is a teacher: she takes intellectual debate as seriously as anyone I’ve ever known, and she conducts it with care, with tact, and with passion.'  (Introduction)

1 Future Anterior : The Evening of the Holiday John Frow , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 3-12)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Practice of Value : Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies John Frow , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2013 7038629 2013 multi chapter work criticism

'In recent years the disciplines of literary studies and cultural studies have engaged in occasional hostilities but very rarely in productive engagement with each other’s methodologies. Yet each offers a set of rich resources for the other in a period of disciplinary crisis across the Humanities.

'The essays collected here, working at the point of intersection of these two fields, are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 On Knowing and Mattering John Frow , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies , vol. 14 no. 3 2013; (p. 447-448)
1 Digital Lending : Electronic Resources for the Study of Australian Literature John Frow , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 369-382)
'In one of a series of articles in the New York Review of Books...the historian and Harvard Librarian Robert Darnton concludes a passage on the great American research libraries by writing that

students today still respect their libraries, but reading rooms are nearly empty on some campuses...Modern or postmodern students do most of their research at computers in their rooms. To them, knowledge comes online, not in libraries. They know that libraries could never contain it all within their wall, because information is endless, extending everywhere on the Internet, and to find it one needs a search engine, not a card catalog. ('The Library in the New Age', New York Review of Books, 12 June 2008)

In this paper I ask what this shift in learning practices means for the teaching of Australian literature. I take it as a given that education will increasingly be electronic and that students both in universities and in schools will increasingly read books on tablets or eReaders...'(From author's introduction, 369)
1 Australian Cultural Studies : Theory, Story, History John Frow , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 104-114)

John Frow attempts 'to reconstruct the early days—roughly the decade of the 1980s—of cultural studies in Australia, in a way that relies heavily on anecdote and reminiscence. ' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)

1 Reading by Numbers : Gender, Class, Education and Literary Culture in Australia Tony Bennett , John Frow , Michael Emmison , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 150-172)
This article examines reading practices and preferences of men and women, and the often gender-based different approaches, motivations and expectations.
1 7 y separately published work icon Cultural Studies Review John Frow (editor), Katrina Schlunke (editor), Chris Healy (editor), Stephen Muecke (editor), 2002 Sydney : UTS Press , 2007-2019 Z987576 2002 periodical (29 issues)
1 Social Class and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia Tony Bennett , Michael Emmison , John Frow , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Culture in Australia : Policies, Publics and Programs 2001;
1 Over White's Dead Body John Frow , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 March 1996; (p. 8)

— Review of Patrick White Simon During , 1996 single work criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Cultural Studies : A Reader John Frow (editor), Meaghan Morris (editor), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1993 Z815586 1993 anthology criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Marxism and Literary History John Frow , Oxford : Blackwell , 1986 Z998650 1986 single work criticism Focusing on Marxist literary theory and literary history in general, the book includes readings of texts by various international authors, among them Australian author Frank Hardy.
1 The Chant of Thomas Keneally John Frow , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 3 1982; (p. 291-299)
Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the 'well-made novel'. Argues that 'a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us, not only what Keneally's novel explicitly states, that there is a limit to understanding white Australians can have of aboriginal culture, but also why Keneally was forced by the limits of the novel form itself to draw this lesson in politically conservative terms' (291).
1 Who Shot Frank Hardy? : Intertextuality and Textual Politics John Frow , 1982 single work
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 15 no. 1 1982; (p. 22-39) Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment 2003; (p. 137-158)
1 Untitled i "it is softly raining on the city.", John Frow , 1970 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 32 1970; (p. 19)
1 Untitled i "more than anger", John Frow , 1970 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 32 1970; (p. 18)
1 Untitled i "we watched them from the iron bridge", John Frow , 1970 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 32 1970; (p. 18)
1 I Have Built You a Fishpond... i "I have built you a fishpond, fitting shell-crusted stones from", John Frow , 1967 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , August no. 17 1967; (p. 28)
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