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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 The Salzburg Tales
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'A group of visitors to the Salzburg Festival, brought together by chance, decides to mark time by telling tales. Their sketches, anecdotes, fantasies, legends, tragedies, jokes and parodies combine to make The Salzburg Tales. ' (Publication summary : 2015 edition)

Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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Peter Davies , 1934 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Triskelion, Christina Stead , single work short story
Day of Wrath : The Schoolboy's Tale, Christina Stead , single work short story
* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Miegunyah Press , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Margaret Harris , single work essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

The Modern Uncanny and Christina Stead's 'The Marionettist' William Lane , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 3 2013;

'This paper argues that Christina Stead's short story, 'The Marionettist,' a story from her 1934 collection, The Salzburg Tales, is felt as uncanny. This paper is in part a response to a 2003 paper by Michael Ackland, which traces the debt 'The Marionettist' owes to E.T.A. Hoffmann's writing. This is a debt which, Ackland argues, does not extend to producing uncanny effects. This paper takes a different view, arguing that not only is 'The Marionettist' felt as uncanny, but that it derives its uncanny effects from various sources. Some of these sources correspond to the different classes of uncanny identified by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay, 'The Uncanny.' These classes are the repressed, the surmounted, and the death drive. My reading of Stead's story emphasizes Freud's suggestion that uncanny effects are dependent on timeless, or archaic, processes. In making this point a distinction is made between the content of the processes (for example, what is repressed), and the processes themselves (the act of repressing), and it is argued that only the content is historically susceptible. The paper proposes that this complicates a tendency by recent writers on the uncanny to limit the uncanny to modernity.' (Publication abstract)

Christina Stead : Her Luck Ann-Marie Priest , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 3 2013; (p. 66-78)
Dreaming of the Middle Ages : The Place of 'mitterlalterlich' and Socialist Awareness in Christina Stead's Early Fiction Michael Ackland , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 54-68)
‘A Skyrocket Waiting to Be Let Off’, but to Where? Christina Stead’s First Impressions of the United States and Her Postwar Literary Rehabilitation Michael Ackland , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 225-239)
'This paper focuses on Stead's journal and manuscripts comments on Boston and Manhattan in the mid-1930s, on their ideological implications, and on the insights they provide into her imaginative projection and exploration of 'America' in her fiction.' (Author's abstract)
Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark Susan Carson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 229-244)
Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.
[Review] The Salzburg Tales 1934 single work review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 11 August 1934; (p. 46)

— Review of The Salzburg Tales Christina Stead , 1934 selected work short story
Worthwhile Sortie into Literary Past Mark Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 November 1991; (p. 21)

— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch Brian Penton , 1934 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales Christina Stead , 1934 selected work short story ; The Pea Pickers Eve Langley , 1942 single work novel ; The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrower , 1966 single work novel ; Disturbing Element Xavier Herbert , 1963 single work autobiography
C.K. Stead Writes About Christina Stead C. K. Stead , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 4 September 1986; (p. 13-14)

— Review of Ocean of Story : The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead Christina Stead , 1985 selected work short story prose extract drama biography ; The Salzburg Tales Christina Stead , 1934 selected work short story
Christina Stead's Books Excite After 30 Years Jean Battersby , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 June 1966; (p. 18)

— Review of Seven Poor Men of Sydney Christina Stead , 1934 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales Christina Stead , 1934 selected work short story
American Tragedy Neil Jillett , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 June 1966; (p. 25)

— Review of The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead , 1940 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales Christina Stead , 1934 selected work short story
Whatever Happened to Coppelius? Antecedents and Design in Christina Stead's The Salzburg Tales Michael Ackland , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 53-66)
Ackland aims to demonstrate the way in which Stead's writings 'simultaneously exploit and subvert the traditions and conventions available to her'. Concentrating on 'The Marionettist', the first of the Salzburg tales, with its recasting of the puppeteer motif, he detects the influence of Hoffmann on Stead; he find the story 'hints at a range of ensuing pre-occupations, and evokes a past imaginative realm that affords one measure of the existential slippages and social developments that have complicated received themes in a modern, increasingly psychoanalytical age.' pp.53-54.
Christina Stead and the Marxist Imagery Stephen Cowden , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 63-75)
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations 1934 single work column
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 6 no. 9 1934; (p. 182-183)
‘A Skyrocket Waiting to Be Let Off’, but to Where? Christina Stead’s First Impressions of the United States and Her Postwar Literary Rehabilitation Michael Ackland , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 225-239)
'This paper focuses on Stead's journal and manuscripts comments on Boston and Manhattan in the mid-1930s, on their ideological implications, and on the insights they provide into her imaginative projection and exploration of 'America' in her fiction.' (Author's abstract)
Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark Susan Carson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 229-244)
Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.
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