Anne Collett Anne Collett i(A4215 works by)
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1 Ghazal as a Transnational Space; Ghazal as Endgame : Judith Wright’s “Shadow of Fire Anne Collett , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Spaces : India and Australia 2021; (p. 69-86)

'Judith Wright is celebrated as a quintessentially Australian literary figure. Her poetry engages with the land, with her ‘white settler’ farming family and its problematic historical relationship to Indigenous people, and with environmental issues. Despite living almost exclusively within one nation space, Wright’s mental spaces included transnational exchanges. This chapter tracks one line of cultural influence involving an Australian religious movement with links to India, translations of Hafiz in England and the adaptation of a Persian poetic form, the ghazal, in Wright’s later work.'

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1 y separately published work icon Postcolonial Past & Present : Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies : Essays for Paul Sharrad Anne Collett (editor), Leigh Dale (editor), Leiden : Brill , 2018 15424217 2018 anthology criticism

'In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. ' (Publication summary)

1 Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Russell McDougall , Anne Collett , Susan Thomas , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather : Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricanes 2017; (p. 1-24)
1 y separately published work icon Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather : Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricanes Russell McDougall (editor), Anne Collett (editor), Susan Thomas (editor), Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2017 16915985 2017 anthology criticism

'This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisèle Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Love and Vision : The Story of Kathleen McArthur's Care for Wallum Country Anne Collett , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: PAN , no. 12 2016;
'In Wild Dog Dreaming, published in 2011, Deborah Bird Rose writes about 'Anthropogenic extinction' as 'a fact of death that is growing exponentially.' She notes that 'we are entering an era of loss of life unprecedented in human history' and states that '[t]he question, of course, is: if we humans are the cause, can we change ourselves enough to change our impacts?' (2) Rose moves on to quote Michael Soule's observation that '[p]eople save what they love', and asks with him, '[a]re humans capable of loving, and therefore of caring for, the animals and plants that are currently losing their lives in a growing cascade of extinctions?' She follows this question up with another, more imperative one, '[h]ow [are we] to invigorate love and action in ways that are generous, knowledgeable, and life-affirming?' (2) In interview three years later, Rose reiterates this view, urging her audience to take this moment, this challenge of the Anthropocene, 'to enhance our capacity for love, for care, for keeping faith with earth, keeping faith with life.'' (Publication abstract)
1 The Dog and the Chameleon Poet Anne Collett , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Captured : The Animal within Culture 2013; (p. 131-151)
1 Phantom Dwelling A Discussion of Judith Wright's “Late Style” Anne Collett , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 1 June vol. 37 no. 2 2013; (p. 243-259)
'This article addresses “the problem” of Judith Wright's last volume of poetry, Phantom Dwelling (1985), seeking to understand why it has been neglected by literary scholars despite very positive reviews. It positions this work in relation to Edward Said's thesis on “late style” (2006), seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashō'sThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and “Record of the Hut of the Phantom Dwelling”, and Romanticism. (Author's abstract)
1 Editorial Anne Collett , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 34 no. 2 2012; (p. vi-ix)
'This special, and last, issue of Kunapipi is a celebration of Helen Tiffin’s contribution to the field of postcolonial studies. ' (vii)
1 y separately published work icon Life Writing Dissenting Lives vol. 8 no. 4 December Anne Collett (editor), Antonio Jose Simoes Da Silva (editor), 2011 Z1832121 2011 periodical issue
1 Establishing an Australian/Caribbean Alliance : Stories Passed on by Penny van Toorn and Olive Senior Anne Collett , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 25 no. 4 2010; (p. 55-69)
1 'Femmes a part' : Unsociable Sociability, Women, Lifewriting Louise D'Arcens , Anne Collett , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting 2010; (p. 1-17)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Anne Collett (editor), Louise D'Arcens (editor), Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 Z1743469 2010 anthology criticism This collection of essays applies the concept of 'unsocial sociability' (traced in the anthology's introduction through the work of Kant, Montaigne and Rousseau) to a wide range of women's lifewriting texts. 'With its cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective, the volume makes a distinctive contribution to current debates on women's lifewriting. Its emphasis on unsocial sociability offers a timely, provocative response to the established notion of the female self as a relational subject.' [Back cover]
1 Playing with Water : Elements of the Sublime in the Domestic Domain Anne Collett , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kate Llewellyn 2010; (p. 113-128)
1 Emily Carr and Judith Wright : Bearing Witness through Art, Autobiography and Friendship Anne Collett , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Recent Trends in Canadian Studies 2010; (p. 98-119)
1 In Memoriam : Valentine Vallis (1916-2009) Anne Collett , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 31 no. 2 2009; (p. 8-14)
1 The Significance of Littoral in Beverley Farmer's Novel The Seal Woman Anne Collett , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October/November vol. 24 no. 3-4 2009; (p. 121-132)
This essay 'offers some thoughts on the transformative possibility of the littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel The Seal Woman, and a brief discussion of Farmer's particular deployment of littoral as feminine or even feminist' (121).
1 Gendered Tree-scapes in the Art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Anne Collett , Dorothy Jones , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mosaic , September vol. 42 no. 3 2009;
This essay explores the impact of gender, colonial inheritance, and European modernism upon the representation of landscape in general, and trees in particular, in the work of two female artists who achieved iconic national status in the twentieth century: Canadian painter Emily Carr and Australian poet Judith Wright.
1 Of Sages and Sybils : Alec Hope and Judith Wright Anne Collett , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 66-77)
The article charts the friendship between Hope and Wright and the critical responses of the two poets to each other's work and achievements.
1 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Colonial Girl: Emily Carr and Judith Wright Anne Collett , Dorothy Jones , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 44 no. 3 2009; (p. 51-67)
In their autobiographical writing, painter Emily Carr and poet Judith Wright record a remarkably similar experience of how growing up in colonial/postcolonial Canada and Australia shaped them as artists. Although each identified strongly with the region of her birth, and felt a deep love of its landscape, issues of belonging preoccupied both women from childhood on as they negotiated their place within the family, the immediate society and the nation. Neither could fully conform to family expectations, nor comply with the restrictions society sought to impose on them as artists and each actively sought, or else found herself cast in, an outsider role. Carr and Wright's self portraits each have something in common with James Joyce's representation of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an insider/outsider figure who seeks to escape the confining networks of nation and society, only to find himself thoroughly entangled in them.
1 The Extraordinary in the Ordinary : Kate Llewellyn's Self-Portrait of a Lemon Anne Collett , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 111-115)
In her discussion of Llewellyn's poem 'Lemon' Collett argues that the author uses the image of the lemon to 'reveal the ordinary life as essentially interesting and valuable, not only for its idiosyncratic nature ... but also for its commonality and communality' (113).
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