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1 2 y separately published work icon Running Wild : Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding David Brooks (editor), Brian Kiernan (editor), Sydney New Delhi : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture Manohar , 2004 Z1139818 2004 anthology criticism biography short story essay

From the editors' introduction: Michael Wilding, the distinguished teacher, critic and writer, retired in 2000 from his Personal Chair in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Two of his former colleagues, David Brooks and Brian Kiernan, have put together this Festschrift as a mark of honour to his brilliant career.

A number of his colleagues and students have written about Michael's achievements as a scholar and critic in various fields, and many among them about his attendant interest in the politics of writing and criticism. These essays on a vast range of themes in English and Australian literatures (including the ones on Michael's own novels and short stories), some on European literature, and one on its interaction with Asian literature have been grouped together in broadly chronological sequence according to topic.

The last section of this volume has essays on Professor Wilding's parallel career as a creative writer, fiction by some of the contributors and a variety of memoirs.
1 5 y separately published work icon Investigations in Australian Literature Ken A. Stewart , Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 2000 Z764699 2000 selected work criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia Igor Maver , Sydney Nottingham : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture Shoestring Press (UK) , 1999 Z397636 1999 multi chapter work criticism biography
1 y separately published work icon History Literature and Society : Essays in Honour of S. N. Mukherjee Mabel Lee (editor), Michael Wilding (editor), Leichhardt New Delhi : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture Manohar , 1997 Z1442040 1997 single work criticism
1 12 y separately published work icon Studies in Classic Australian Fiction Michael Wilding , Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1997 Z540974 1997 multi chapter work criticism biography
1 6 y separately published work icon Studies in Australian Literary History Brian Kiernan , Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1997 Z57336 1997 selected work criticism biography
1 1 y separately published work icon Social Visions Social Visions : Essays on Swift, Meredith, Conrad, Sillitoe, Kundera, Singer Michael Wilding , Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1993 Z1438156 1993 selected work essay criticism 'Social Visions is concerned with the ways novelists deal with issues of society and politics. It is an attempt to restore the political dimensions to the reading of both 'classic' and contemporary authors and to explore the formal strategies evolved by writers committed to a vision of society. The social role of literary criticism, as institutionalized by the educational apparatus, has been to absorb literary works into the dominant ideology, to reconstitute by 'interpretation' these works' components into forms expressing, or not disturbing, the dominant ideology ; and to exclude from the accepted canon of 'texts' works that cannot be so absorbed. A radical criticism has as its task the undoing of this false structure by reemphasising the problematic socio-political features of works accorded classic status, and by restoring excluded works to attention, opening up the area of discourse of literary studies.' - Author's comments from Preface.
1 1 y separately published work icon Theatre and Cultural Interaction Maria Shevtsova , Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1993 Z930095 1993 single work criticism

' The essays collected here reflect some of my main concerns during the past ten years and belong to the sociology of the theatre as I have understood and developed it until now. The areas of my research that I have chosen for the purposes of this volume are productions, audiences and performers. These are essential components of the theatre which, while distinguishing it from literature, dramatic and otherwise, place the theatre firmly in the realm of what in French is exquisitely called les arts du spectacle, "performing arts" in English not quite capturing the precision of the French phrase. Even so, the term spectacle is not monosemantic and thus not crystal clear: it incorporates a wide range of shows (variety and circuses, for example, are spectacles) that leave the term and, with it, the very notion of art, open to debate.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 1983 Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1983- 10765575 1983 series - publisher
1 y separately published work icon Words and Worlds : Studies in the Social Role of Verbal Culture Stephen Knight (editor), S. N. Mukherjee (editor), Sydney : Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture , 1983 Z838463 1983 anthology criticism
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