Simon Ryan Simon Ryan i(A5024 works by)
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1 If The Man from Snowy River Is Indigenous, What Does That Mean for Our National Myth-making? Simon Ryan , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 September 2021;

— Review of The Brumby Wars : The Battle for the Soul of Australia Anthony Sharwood , 2021 multi chapter work criticism
1 Telling Tune Simon Ryan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;

— Review of Earworm Colin Varney , 2018 single work novel

'Unusual narrators in fiction demonstrate how a willing suspension of disbelief touches every aspect of the reading experience. After a few pages of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell, we are reconciled to the fact that the narrator is a foetus. In Tibor Fischer’s The Collector Collector, we grow comfortable under the guidance of a narrator that is a 6000-year-old Mesopotamian bowl. Likewise, in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, we accept a narrator who is dead. Fiction is replete with narrators that are atoms, horses, bees and death itself. Colin Varney’s Earworm adds a song to this list of unusual narrators.'  (Introduction)

1 Bruny Review : Heather Rose’s New Book Has a Sense of Place yet Taps into Global Unease Simon Ryan , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 October 2019;

— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel

'When in 2017 Nordstrom began selling US$425 jeans (A$620) covered in fake mud, it seemed the long prophesied “late stage capitalism” had finally arrived. Suddenly the phrase itself was everywhere from Reddit to Twitter and applied to every freakish story about excessive consumption or corporate perfidy.' (Introduction)

1 [Review] Books for Boys : Manipulating Genre in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction Simon Ryan , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 43 no. 3 2019; (p. 396-397)

— Review of Books for Boys : Manipulating Genre in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction Troy Potter , 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'For the last 30 years, we have been warned that there is a crisis with boys' reading skills. This is usually located within a larger panic about the perceived decline in general academic skills amongst boys. This again often mutates into conservative jeremiads against the “war on boys”, where natural masculinity is being drained away by an ill-defined but nevertheless pervasive conspiracy against clear gender roles. The way to get boys reading again, so these observers argue, is to reintroduce them to “manly” tomes such as Kipling's Captains Courageous, Twain's Huck Finn and Hinton's The Outsiders. As Troy Potter's Books for Boys notes, even governmental agencies are forced into proposing reading matter which it is presumed will interest typical boys—action, mystery, fantasy and detective fiction are mentioned (3). Dealing with the perceived crisis inevitably becomes a policing of gender roles and these genres develop a reciprocal relationship with the reader, both responding to and producing masculinity norms. Problems emerge, however, when these books promote masculine ideals that are white, able-bodied, heterosexual and working class.' (Introduction)

1 Lasseter's Last Ride and the Gothic Narrative of Failure Simon Ryan , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 381-395)
1 [Untitled] Simon Ryan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 1 June vol. 37 no. 2 2013; (p. 271-273)

— Review of The Imago : E. L. Grant Watson and Australia Suzanne Falkiner , 2011 single work biography
1 [Review] The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Simon Ryan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 11 no. 2 2011;

— Review of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction 2011 anthology short story extract
1 Untitled Simon Ryan , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 15 no. 1 2008; (p. 134-135)

— Review of The Third Metropolis : Imagining Brisbane Through Art and Literature, 1940-1970 William Hatherell , 2007 single work criticism
2 The Holiday-Maker's Happy Hunting Ground : Travel Writing in Queensland, 1860-1950 Simon Ryan , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 13 no. 1 2006; (p. 63-77)

— Appears in: By the Book : A Literary History of Queensland 2007; (p. 301-322; notes 362-365)
'A few years ago, on a research trip to East Africa, I met a young man from my home town of Brisbane. Slightly sheepish at the implausible coincidence of our meeting, I struggled to say something that would be of relevance to both of us. ‘Nice place,’ I hesitantly opined of Brisbane. ‘Nah, shithole,’ he tersely said and, sensing that the conversation was at an end, I turned back to my Kenyan delicacy, spaghetti. The interchange reminded me of two things: first, it is always more difficult to leave home behind you than you think; and second, your home is not the same home as anybody else's.' (Extract)
1 The Riddle of the Index: Subverting the Empire and Exploration Simon Ryan , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , January-February no. 34 2005;

— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction Paul Genoni , 2004 multi chapter work criticism
1 Untitled Simon Ryan , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Aumla , May no. 95 2001; (p. 124-126)

— Review of When London Calls : The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain Stephen Alomes , 1999 single work criticism
1 Review Simon Ryan , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Aumla , May no. 93 2000; (p. 122-123)

— Review of The Country of Lost Children : An Australian Anxiety Peter Pierce , 1999 multi chapter work criticism biography
1 Turning the Century Simon Ryan , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 6 2000; (p. 115-116)

— Review of Turning the Century : Writing of the 1890s 1999 anthology short story poetry extract prose
1 y separately published work icon The Body in the Library Leigh Dale (editor), Simon Ryan (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1998 Z1169408 1998 anthology criticism 'The body is increasingly understood as being at the centre of colonial and post-colonial relationships and textual productions. Creating and circulating images of the undisciplined body of the "other" was and is a critical aspect of colonialism. Likewise, resistance to colonial practices was also frequently corporeal, with indigenous peoples appropriating, parodying, and subverting those European practices which were used to signify the "civilized" status of the colonizing body. The Body in the Library reads representations of the corporeal in texts of empire.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 The Last of Everything Simon Ryan , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 151 1998; (p. 100-101)

— Review of The Last of Six : Tales of the Austral Tropics Ernest Favenc , 1893 selected work short story
1 1 y separately published work icon The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia Simon Ryan , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 Z993259 1996 single work criticism
1 Untitled Simon Ryan , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Ariel , October vol. 26 no. 4 1995; (p. 177-179)

— Review of Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction Graham Huggan , 1994 single work criticism
1 Studies in the National Culture Simon Ryan , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 2 1995; (p. 116-119)

— Review of Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 Robert Dixon , 1995 single work criticism
1 Framing Fields Simon Ryan , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 22 no. 2 1995; (p. 140-144)

— Review of Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies Sneja Gunew , 1994 multi chapter work criticism
2 Ludwig Leichhardt : Australia's Missing Penis Simon Ryan , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 97-106)

— Appears in: The Body in the Library 1998; (p. 237-247)
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