The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Papers presented at the 21st Annual Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference held at the Empire Theatre and the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba from 3-7 July 1998.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Toowoomba,Toowoomba area,Darling Downs,Queensland,:Association for the Study of Australian Literature,1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Discusses the impact of recent changes, particulalry in the economic and political scenes, on Australian literature as the literary production of and about Australia and Australians and as a university discipline.
Focuses on two libel cases arising from Brian Penton's review of Mezzomorto, viewing them as points of entry into Australian literary politics in the 1930s, and discusses the literary feud between P.R. Stephensen and Brian Penton.
Series:Proceedings. Association for the Study of Australian LiteratureASAL Proceedings1994-2001series - publisher criticism From 1994-2000 the proceedings of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature annual conferences were published as books, often by the hosting institution. After that they were published as a special issue of JASAL.
The Association has made all proceedings freely available via the National Library's website.