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1 y separately published work icon The Union Recorder 1921 Sydney : University of Sydney , Z949467 1921 periodical (41 issues)
1 1 y separately published work icon Living Twice Sydney : University of Sydney , 2024 27815714 2024 anthology short story

'All lives have two things in common: they begin and they end.

'But within each life, there are thousands of little openings and little closings, all happening at once. The day you make the decision to move abroad; the moment a relationship comes to a close; the choice that changes the course of life as you know it. Through many twists and turns, from one passion, one person, one experience to the next, we live not just once, not even twice, but as many times as we may wish. A collection of diverse and unique voices, the stories in Living Twice will take you on a journey through intriguing prologues and fulfilling epilogues. This anthology cradles the expressions of life itself: the rollercoaster that is growing up; experiences of loving and of being loved; and the hope we hold for new beginnings.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Goori Futurism : Envisioning the Sovereignty of Country, Community and Culture in the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , Sydney : 2021 28142894 2021 thesis

'Goori Futurism is a new genre of speculative fiction that envisions Goori sovereignty in various futures in the Tweed/Bundjalung country, using Blackfella Futurism themes and tropes. This thesis has two components. ALWAYS WILL BE: stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed, the creative component of this project, is a short story collection comprised of ten short Goori Futurism stories. The critical component is an exegesis in three parts. The overarching question that the whole thesis asks is: what might our country, community and culture look like in a Future Tweed, given the reassertion of Goori sovereignty? ALWAYS WILL BE offers ten different answers to this question, and the exegesis considers the research and writing that led to the answers. The exegesis first defines Goori Futurism, then it traces Goori Futurism’s origins, lineage and goals. Next, the exegesis introduces The Goori Futurism Research Framework as made up of three reading and writing frames: Politics – Goori Sovereignty, Setting – Future Tweed and Genre – Blackfella Futurism. The third section is ALWAYS WILL BE, and the stories are tied together by politics, setting and genre: each of the stories in this collection explore different expressions of Goori Sovereignty; all of the stories are set in the Tweed, in different versions of the Future, with various climate scenarios, population dynamics and political structures; and each story responds to the prevailing themes and tropes within the Blackfella Futurism genre. Finally, the exegesis reflects on the ways that each of the stories are products of The Goori Futurism Research Framework. This thesis, comprised of the stories in ALWAYS WILL BE and the scholarly writing in the exegesis combined, initiates the genre of Goori Futurism, articulates a philosophy and aesthetics of the genre and delineates its boundaries while resisting prescriptive genre protocols.'

Source: University of Sydney Repository.

1 5 y separately published work icon Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays Brigitta Olubas (editor), Sydney : University of Sydney , 2014 7920567 2014 anthology criticism

'Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.

'Hazzard's oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard's lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.

'Hazzard's work has been duly praised and admired by many including the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as 'the greatest living writer on goodness and love'. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford observed: 'If there has to be one best writer working in English today it's Shirley Hazzard.'

'Shirley Hazzard received the US National Book Award in 2003 for The Great Fire, which also won the William Dean Howells Medal in the US and the Miles Franklin Award in Australia. In 1980 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus, and in 1977 the O. Henry Short Story Award, and she has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize. She is a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the British Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities' (Publication summary)

1 7 y separately published work icon Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , Sydney : University of Sydney , 2014 7705472 2014 single work criticism

'Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness - substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.

Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writers' prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 - which won the Victorian Premier's Fiction Award in 2014 - Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title 'Horizons'.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Sydney : University of Sydney , 2014 7705450 2014 series - publisher criticism
1 11 y separately published work icon Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson , R. H. Croll (editor), Melbourne : Lothian , 1934 Z356344 1934 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Sparks : The University of Sydney Anthology 2012 University of Sydney (editor), Sydney : Darlington Press , 2012 Z1928926 2012 anthology poetry essay short story 'A fire kindling. The energy of industry. Flickers of light in the darkness. An ember slips, releasing a spiral from the glowing interior. The burst and shower of fireworks. A vivid particle of light, held where it flies. Sparks combines all this and more, through stories, poems, essays and photographs by twenty-six new writers and artists. This anthology represents a creative instinct that will go on burning brightly.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Read Me : The University of Sydney Anthology University of Sydney (editor), Sydney : University of Sydney , 2011 Z1919927 2011 anthology short story
1 1 y separately published work icon Sandstone : Sydney University Student Anthology 2010 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2010 Z1754521 2010 anthology poetry short story essay prose

'Sandstone pillars loom as the student approaches. Up the steps and beyond the gates, along the well-trodden path through the university. Familiar buildings, favourite coffee carts, stone gargoyles, chalk-covered paths - all the same. The mind wanders, imagination takes over; thoughts become words, ideas blur into images. Student becomes creator.

'This anthology showcases new writing and art from students of the University of Sydney. Sydney's Master of Publishing students invite you to enjoy this collection of poems, photographs, stories, essays and narrative non-fiction.'

1 y separately published work icon Sydney Ideas Quarterly Minh Bui Jones (editor), 2009 Sydney : University of Sydney , 2009- Z1676117 2009 periodical (3 issues)
1 1 y separately published work icon Footy Passions Joy Damousi , John Cash , University of Sydney , 2009 9114036 2009 single work criticism

'Salary caps, drunken escapades, sponsorship deals, and teams enjoying victory and surviving defeat dominate coverage of football. Meanwhile fans agonise over line-ups, sweat over results, and look forward to the weekly football ritual. With each new season, having hibernated over the long, hot summer, the team emerges as if revived and raises hopes anew. The keen supporter is hooked back into a revived ritual of precarious pleasures that is played out within quasi-tribal cheer squads, intense friendship networks and, at least momentarily, united nuclear families. What hooks fans back in and why do they care so much? In this riveting and moving book, AFL fans talk about the emotions associated with the game and how it gives meaning to their lives, showing that football is more than just a game. ' (Source: TROVE)

1 y separately published work icon Brightness under Our Shoes : The Redress of the Poetic Imagination in the Poetry and Prose of David Malouf, 1960-1982 Yvonne Smith , 2008 Z1604899 2008 single work thesis 'This study investigates the poetic foundation of David Malouf's poetry and prose published from 1960 to 1982. Its purpose is to extend reading strategies so that the nature of his poetic and its formative influence are more fully appreciated. Its thesis is that Malouf explores and tests with increasing confidence and daring a poetic imagination that he believes must meet the demands of the times. Malouf's work is placed in relation to Wallace Stevens' belief that the poetic imagination should "push back against the pressure of reality", a view discussed by Seamus Heaney in 'The Redress of Poetry'. Malouf's work shows the influence not only of Stevens but also Rilke and contemporary American poetry of "deep image". The Australian context of Malouf's work is considered in relation to Judith Wright's essay 'The Writer and the Crisis' and the poetry of Malouf's contemporaries. Details of the manuscript development of his first four novels show Malouf's steps towards a clearer representation of his holistic, post-romantic vision. His correspondence with the poet Judith Rodriguez provides useful insights into his purposes. Theories and research about brain functions, the nature of intelligence and learning provide an important international context in the 1960s and 1970s, given Malouf's interest in how meaning forms from perception and experience. The thesis offers a model of poetic learning that highlights the interplay of dialectically opposed ways of forming meaning and points to the importance for Malouf of holding diverse states of mind together through the poetic imaginary.' from Author's abstract http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5139 sighted 14/7/2009
1 y separately published work icon The Great Arch : A Fictional Work The Trouble With Frank : The Intersection of Fiction and Life : A Dissertation : Writing the Novel, The Great Arch Vicki Hastrich , Sydney : 2008 Z1519958 2008 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon The Battler's Prince : A Reading of Peter Carey's Fiction Kirril Shields , Sydney : 2006 Z1834911 2006 single work thesis The thesis examines Peter Carey as a nationalist writer, arguing that he is a writer whose characters, society and history reflect and recall the 1890s 'Australian tradition.' Despite the post-modern, post-colonial and fabulist features contained within his novels, Carey reflects the bushman ethos in his portrayal of Australian characters. True Australians are those who possess bush values. Certain elements in his fiction assist this theme, such as the manipulated use of Australian history, or the lack of attention to pluralism in his writing.

Shields examines those recurring traits, interpreting Carey as an Australian Battler's Prince, a man who promotes egalitarianism and mateship while belittling and devaluing a society of colonizing/ neo-colonizing past and present 'squattocracies.' He further argues that it is Carey's commitment to this 'true Australia' that determines the ethical structure of his work: in particular, that characters who offend the egalitarian values of 'true Australia' are more likely to be punished than characters who, whatever their crimes, exhibit 'Australian' virtues. Finally, the thesis questions Carey the nationalist in the context of the ethics of storytelling.
1 y separately published work icon Sydney Alumni Magazine SAM 2006 Sydney : University of Sydney , 2006- Z1760709 2006 periodical (1 issues)
1 y separately published work icon Translations Under the Trees : Australian Poets' Integration of Buddhist Ideas and Images Greg McLaren , Sydney : 2005 Z1281366 2005 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Australian Imprint: The Influence of the Publisher George Robertson on a National Narrative (1890-1935) Caroline Viera Jones , 2004 Z1306560 2004 single work thesis This thesis is an analysis of the influence of George Robertson of Angus & Robertson on Australian literary culture, identity and history. It argues that a major publishing house can shape national identity by crystalising a national ethos in its fiction and adding to a country's body of knowledge in its non-fiction. Through a detailed reading of edited texts and an exhaustive analysis of Angus & Robertson correspondence, this thesis shows how George Robertson played an enormous part in deciding how national myths were created and how key titles have isolated what it is to be Australian.
6 257 y separately published work icon Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , 1897 (Manuscript version)8613172 8613167 1897 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins. Joseph Furphy's title gives an indication of the complexity of the narrative that will unravel before a persistent reader. In chapter one, the narrator, Tom Collins, joins a group of bullockies to camp for the night a few miles from Runnymede Station. Their conversations reveal many of the issues that arise throughout the rest of the novel: the ownership of, or control of access to, pasture; ideas of providence, fate and superstition; and a concern for federation that flows into descriptions of the coming Australian in later chapters. Each of the characters provides a portrait of bush types that Furphy uses to measure the qualities of squatters and others against popular ideas of the 'gentleman'. Furphy's choice of a narrative structure to create a 'loosely federated' series of yarns is itself a critique of popular narratives populated by stock characters who are driven by action that leads to predictable and uncomplicated conclusions. Tom Collins, the unreliable narrator, adds further complications by claiming to 'read men like signboards' while all the time being unknowingly contradicted by circumstances that become obvious to the reader.

In each subsequent chapter Tom Collins leads the reader through a series of experiences chosen from his diaries. In chapter two, Collins meets the boundary rider Rory O'Halloran and his daughter, Mary, a symbol of the coming Australian whose devotion to her father will have tragic consequences in chapter five. There are many links between chapters like this one that remain invisible to Collins, despite his attempts to understand the 'controlling alternatives' that affect our lives. In chapter three Tom loses his clothes crossing the Murray River and spends the night wandering naked until he is able to steal a pair of pants after diverting attention by setting fire to a haystack. In chapter four Collins helps an ailing Warrigal Alf by deceiving several boundary riders who have impounded Alf's bullocks. In chapter five, among other yarns of lost children, Thompson completes the tragic tale of Mary O'Halloran, connecting with the events of chapter two. Chapters six and seven take Tom Collins back to Runnymede Station where he attempts to avoid an unwelcome union with Maud Beaudesart. He also meets the disfigured boundary rider, Nosey Alf, whose life story Furphy has threaded throughout the narrative, signs not perceived by Tom Collins. When Collins returns to Runnymede at the end of the novel, Furphy ties up more loose narrative threads, but Tom Collins, the narrator, remains oblivious to the end.

In short, Such Is Life 'reflects the preoccupations of [the 1890s]: contemporary capitalism, ardent Australian nationalism, the difficulties of pioneering pastoralism, and speculation about a future Australian civilization. It was instantly seen as a major example of the "radical nationalism" of the time and praised for its realistic representation of life on the frontier in the 1880s. But it was forty years before many readers realized that the novel was also a subtle comment on fiction itself and that within it were hidden stories that revealed a world of "romance" within its "realist" representation of life. Such Is Life can be read as the first experimental novel in Australian literature and the first Australian literary expression of a twentieth-century sensibility of the provisionality of life and reality.' (Julian Croft, 'Joseph Furphy.' in Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 230.)

1 10 y separately published work icon The Incredible Journey Catherine Martin , London : Jonathan Cape , 1923 Z821973 1923 single work novel

'First published in 1923, The Incredible Journey tells the story of Iliapa, an Aboriginal woman, who embarks on a long, arduous journey through the Australian outback in search of her son after he is abducted by a white man. Catherine Martin said that she wrote this novel 'in order to put on record, as faithfully as possible, the heroic love and devotion of a black woman when robbed of her child'.'

'The novel presents a vivid picture of the Aboriginal people (viewed through the eyes of a white novelist), their culture, their dispossession and, in particular, this abhorrent white practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents.' (Source: Goodreads website)

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