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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne
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'One of the great weaknesses of Australian political life is the miserable failure of marxist analysis to make a positive impact on most of our secular intellectuals. By intellectuals I mean that more or less coherent and continuous group of people who write for our quarterlies, churn out weekly columns in our newspapers, present Australian society to us in books and essays, and occasionally comment on the affairs of the nation and/or the ‘human condition’, for television or radio. Sometimes their books are set for schools (such as Donald Horne’s Lucky Country). They are not always household names but they are immensely influential since their function is to produce the ideas with which most Australians know their society and its place in the world. Naturally I’m using ‘know’ with my fingers crossed: the knowledge presented in these different media is ideological, with its characteristic presumptions of pluralism, consensus, affluence and its comfortable and indulgent fatalism about human nature.' (Tim Rowse : Australian Left Review. March-April 1975 45-50)

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1974 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The "Eternal Hermit" : Christopher Brennan, John Docker , single work criticism
Docker considers the unity Brennan seeks in Poems in sexual terms, paying close attention to the sexual metaphors of the first section. However, Lilith's intervention in the earthly union that was to produce transcendence disturbs the persona. Seeking union with Lilith, the persona does not know if he achieves transcendence or whether the feeling is the "creation of his own anxiety", leaving him in a state of "solipsistic despair".
(p. 3-21)
Norman Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor and the Artist-Aristocracy, John Docker , single work criticism (p. 22-41)
The Image of Woman in A. D. Hope's Poetry, John Docker , single work criticism (p. 42-58)
Note: With epigraph
Patrick White's Australian Literary Context Patrick White and Romanticism : The Vivisector, John Docker , single work criticism (p. 59-76)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

The Temperament of Editors and a New Multicultural Orthodoxy John Docker , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 48 1991; (p. 50-55)
Sydney Versus Melbourne Revisited John Docker , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1981; (p. 16-25)
Towards an Intellectual History: Melbourne, Sydney and Docker's Elites Warren Osmond , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 34 no. 2 1975; (p. 198-202)
[Review] Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne Russel Ward , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Historical Studies , vol. 16 no. 1975; (p. 618-619)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
Melbourne or the Push Geoffrey Serle , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 60 1975; (p. 85-86)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
Critical Stocktaking of Our Literature Judah Waten , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 October 1974; (p. 18)

— Review of Native Companions : Essays and Comments on Australian Literature, 1936-1966 A. D. Hope , 1974 selected work criticism obituary review ; Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism ; Melbourne or the Bush : Essays on Australian Literature and Society Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1974 selected work criticism
[Review] Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne M. Clark , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 November 1974; (p. 37)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
[Review] Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne Maurice Dunlevy , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 October 1974; (p. 12)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
[Review] Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne Humphrey McQueen , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: Arena , no. 36 1974; (p. 40-49)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
[Review] Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne J. D. Pringle , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 October 1974; (p. 13)

— Review of Australian Cultural Elites : Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne John Docker , 1974 single work criticism
John Docker and His Critics Robin Gollan , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 62 1975; (p. 62-63)
Through a Glass, Absurdly. Docker on Meanjin : A Personal View A. A. Phillips , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 34 no. 2 1975; (p. 203-211) Responses : Selected Writings 1979; (p. 17-24)
Towards an Intellectual History: Melbourne, Sydney and Docker's Elites Warren Osmond , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 34 no. 2 1975; (p. 198-202)
The Temperament of Editors and a New Multicultural Orthodoxy John Docker , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 48 1991; (p. 50-55)
Sydney Versus Melbourne Revisited John Docker , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1981; (p. 16-25)
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