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1 The Zwergroman : Literary Dwarfs under the Australian Gaze C. A. Cranston , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 36 no. 1 2023; (p. 78-93)

'Ubiquitous, highly visible, nonspecific to geography, history, race, or sex, dwarfism's connection with Australia's mythic and literary histories is remarkable enough to suggest here that it occupy its own subgenre in literature, the zwergroman (m). Australia's branding as the "Antipodes" geographically recalls its colonial past; mythographically the imaginative configuration was as an underworld of opposites ruled by the diminutive King of the Antipodes. Thus, the zwergroman is frequently fashioned from Celtic myths of the colonizing power along with the shaping power of colonial processes. In addition to introducing the conventions of the zwergroman and demonstrating the significance of dwarf characters to Australia's pre- and postcolonial narratives, this article gradually introduces concepts from disability studies (through the scholarly work of Erin Pritchard, David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, and others) by examining representations and cultural meanings imposed on dwarf characters prior to the counter histories of twenty-first-century short-statured scholars whose demand for personhood required an engagement with subjective and experiential realities. The novels discussed (1970–94) represent a cluster of dwarf-centric novels by notable writers, all able-bodied at the time of writing (excepting Patrick White). They include C. J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously (1978; filmed 1982); James McQueen, Hook's Mountain (1982); Ruth Park, Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977); Peter Carey, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994); and Patrick White, The Vivisector (1970).' (Publication abstract)

1 Climate and Culture in Australia and New Zealand C. A. Cranston , Charles Dawson , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Global History of Literature and the Environment 2016; (p. 237-253)

'Like a template for a climate-changing world, Australia – the driest inhabited continent on Earth – exists in an imaginative and emotional landscape shaped from extremities. Situated within the geopolitical region of Australasia/Oceania, Australia’s trans-Tasman relations with earthquake-prone Aotearoa (“land of the long white cloud”) began in 1788 when New Zealand was included within the British colony of New South Wales. New Zealand, however, was never a penal colony and separation from its rough cousin came after Māori (consolidated under a single language) signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the British Crown in 1840 – itself a marker of difference between the First Nations of both countries. Australian Aborigines, scattered across the continent, each nation speaking its own language – saw land rights withheld under the illegal fiction of terra nullius, “nobody’s land.”'

Source: Introduction.

1 y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology AJE; Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology C. A. Cranston (editor), 2011 Launceston : Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture-Australia and New Zealand , 2011-2099 Z1830029 2011 periodical (6 issues) The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology 'is the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture - Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC - ANZ). It is an affiliate of ASLE (USA) and its global partners. AJE therefore extends beyond its geographical boundaries in being part of an extensive network of journals that are of interest to ecocritics.

ASLEC-ANZ members are scholars, teachers, writers, and practitioners who seek to increase their knowledge of literature, culture and the environment; who seek to promote the creation, appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the human sciences from ecological perspectives; and who seek to share their knowledge for the benefit of all interested in research, reading, writing, media, teaching, and so on, in its engagement with place, ecology and the environment.'

Source: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology website, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aslec-anz
Sighted: 06/12/2011
1 'From Shanty to Shanti - Teaching Australian Literature in India' C. A. Cranston , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2009;
Earlier this year I undertook an Australian Studies Fellowship from the Australia-India Council to teach at the University of Madras, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. As a consequence, this paper aims to address areas suggested for discussion at the ASAL conference. The first part comments on ASAL topics such as the 'selling of Australian literature to the world'; the topic raises concerns for developing nations regarding the 'privileging of consumers' as text affordability and availability impacts on the OzLit research scope available to the local, Tamil Nadu, students. The paper then discusses the experiences encountered when Australian Literature is 'sold' and taught at an overseas institution. This second part will give examples of (an attempt to) 'Translate the local to the world', along with subsequent re-readings of canonical 19th c texts by Tamil students which challenge Anglo-centric assumptions. The paper will also discuss some reasons (why I think) indigenous writing is popular with Tamil students. All together, the paper is comprised of observations made during the application of pedagogical practices; but it concludes with a cautionary note concerning the academic value of selling Australian texts to 'the world'. Part of that caution is directed at institutional gatekeepers who will need to go beyond simply theorising about post-colonial interpretations of the text and instead be accepting of its praxis, where Australian texts will be transformed by unfamiliar cultural capital, and will seldom be controlled by its authors' historical or geographical frameworks.
1 Literary Eco-Consciousness : Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism C. A. Cranston , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 362-370)
This paper historicises and clarifies major differences between Natural History Writing, and Nature Writing, through examples from early Tasmanian writing thus demonstrating the existence of an early and active literary ecoconsciousness. The paper then moves from a consideration of the restrictions of the belle lettristic (or essay) form, to ecowriting in prose fiction. ... James McQueen's Hook's Mountain (1982) and Charlotte I. Dick's Huon Belle (1930) will be examined from two ecocritical perspectives, deep ecology and ecofeminism' (362).
1 Wet, in the Mindscape of the Dry: Water Tanks as Nature/Culture Signifiers C. A. Cranston , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations 2008; (p. 23-38)
The author investigates the impact of Australian literature and European attitudes on water conservation in Australia.
1 [Review] Water from the Moon : Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch C. A. Cranston , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 7 no. 2007; (p. 116-121)

— Review of Water from the Moon : Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch Jean-François Vernay , 2007 multi chapter work criticism
1 Islands C. A. Cranston , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 219-260)
This chapter investigates the impact of literary tropes on island topography. The survey approach of island literature is abandoned in favour of ecocritical praxis, examining instead the literature of selected temperate islands (with populations varying from 2 to 20,000). Cattle farming, ideological disjunction, and mortality are explored in two settler autobiographies set in 'paradise' (Three Hummock Island); 'descent with modification' is traced in the text and the farming practices (sealing, Soldier Settlement pastoral, and salvage) in a work of fiction based in 'Eden' (King Island); and in the final work (indigenous autobiography and myth set on North Stradbroke Island), the politics of the 'land ethic' and land rights confront a sea country pastoral. (from The Littoral Zone)
1 10 y separately published work icon The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers C. A. Cranston (editor), Robert Zeller (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2007 Z1422293 2007 anthology criticism

'In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where "the mountains meet the sea"; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its 'timeless' icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of 'Australia'.'

Source: Rodopi website, http://www.rodopi.nl
Sighted: 28/08/2007

1 Narrative Streams C. A. Cranston , 2005 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 101 2005; (p. 39-52)
1 C. J. Koch C. A. Cranston , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers , 1950-1975 2004; (p. 196-205)
1 Rambling in Overdrive: Travelling through Tasmanian Literature C. A. Cranston , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Historical Studies , vol. 8 no. 2 2003; (p. 23-39)
Writers discussed or mentioned include: James McAuley, Harold Stewart, Ern Malley, Cynthia Reed, Hal Porter, C. J. Koch, Barry Humphries, Richard Flanagan, John Mitchel, Matthew Kneale (UK), Henry Savery (Simon Stukeley), Peter Conrad, Amanda Lohrey, Jimmy Everett, Ida West, Barney Roberts, Carmel Bird, James McQueen, Vivian Smith, Louisa Meredith, David Burn, Hilda Bridges (Joan Gardiner), Charlotte (Isabel) Dick, Pete Hay, Margaret Scott, Gwen Harwood, Lloyd Robson, Clive Sansom and Karen Brown.
1 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Philip Mead , C. A. Cranston , Lucy Frost , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 205-207)
Judges report and short list.
1 John Morrison (1904-1998) C. A. Cranston , 2002 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers, 1915-1950 2002; (p. 239-249)
1 A Mass of Thawing Clay C. A. Cranston , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 87 2001; (p. 122-124)

— Review of King of the Wilderness : The Life of Deny King Christobel Mattingley , 2001 single work biography
1 1 Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism C. A. Cranston , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001; (p. [59]-67)
The author looks at the differences between natural history writing and nature writing using examples from Tasmanian writing, and discusses the belle letteristic (or essay) form and ecowriting in prose fiction.
1 6 y separately published work icon Along These Lines : From Trowenna to Tasmania : At Least Two Centuries of Peripatetic Perspectives in Poetry and Prose C. A. Cranston (editor), Launceston : Cornford Press , 2000 Z668578 2000 anthology short story poetry extract prose biography travel The first part of the anthology follows an historical time line using sources written during the period of Tasmania's European exploration and early settlement. The second (and more substantive) part is framed around Tasmania's geographic regions.
1 Untitled Obituary C. A. Cranston , 1999 single work obituary (for James McQueen )
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 42 1999; (p. 28)
1 Gwen Harwood 1920-1995: A Personal Remembrance C. A. Cranston , 1996 single work obituary (for Gwen Harwood )
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April no. 36 1996; (p. 3)
1 ASAL Literary Awards, 1995 : The Walter McRae Russell Award Andrew Peek , C. A. Cranston , Margaret Roberts , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 35 1995; (p. 16-17)
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