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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... vol. 15 no. 3 May 1992 of Australian Literary Studies est. 1963 Australian Literary Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Tributary Streams: Some Sources of Social and Political Concerns in Modern Australian Poetry, Bruce Dawe , single work criticism (p. 97-109)
Man, Work and Country: The Production of Henry Lawson, Christopher Lee , single work criticism
Lee conducts a semiotic analysis of the reception of Henry Lawson and his works, revealing the connections critics made between the work, the hand of the author and truth. Lee finds that the work of a colonial realist like Lawson was subordinated to a European aesthetic in the "shifting discursive territories which characterise culture", subsequently excluding it from the validating process of the dominant culture.
(p. 110-122)
The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women's Writing [1992], Delys Bird , single work criticism (p. 123-130)
"The Only Russian in Sydney": Modernism and Realism in the "Watch Tower", Nicholas Mansfield , single work criticism
'In the post-war period, the dichotomy between Realism and Modernism seemed to summarise all the important rivalries in Australian fiction -nationalist enthusiasm and political responsibility lined up against cosmopolitan sophistication and formalist experimentation. Given the approximate and tendentious nature of the terms of this dichotomy, it was inevitable that writing that could not fall easily into one or other of its broad categories would be met with some uncertainty and perhaps eventually ignored. The aim of this article is to show how a novel which met such a fate, Elizabeth Harrower's The Watch Tower, both discusses and defies the simple dichotomy that Australian literary critics in the 1960s were so keen to maintain as their paradigm. Harrower's novel, like the work of Christina Stead before her and Helen Garner after her, attempted to subject the techniques and concerns of the traditional social novel -- especially the question of the nature and function of domestic power -- to the self-consciousness that modernism demanded, without giving in to the temptations of either formalist machismo or realist belligerence.' (Introduction)
(p. 131-140)
Satyrs in the Top Paddock: Metaphysical Pastoral in Australian Poetry, Peter Kirkpatrick , single work criticism (p. 141-154)
Rewriting the Past: Exploration and Discovery in "The Transit of Venus", Brigitta Olubas , single work criticism (p. 155-164)
'A Depressed Amor': Richardson's 'The Bathe: a Grotesque', Carol Franklin , single work criticism (p. 165-178)
Enlarging Our Experiments with Narrative: John A. Scott's Triology with Annotations, Martin Duwell , single work criticism (p. 179-191)
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1991, Irmtraud Petersson , Carol Hetherington , single work bibliography (p. 192-212)
An Uncollected Poem by Kenneth Slessor, Peter Kirkpatrick , single work criticism (p. 213-216)
Advice to the Middle Agedi"Let frets and follies decompose,", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry humour (p. 215)
Ada Cambridge, G.F. Cross, and 'The Modern Pulpit', Robert J. Dingley , single work criticism (p. 217-220)
James Lester Burke, Martin Cash and Frank the Poet, Philip Butterss , single work criticism (p. 220-225)
Tasma's First Publication, Lucy Sussex , single work criticism
Presents a case for this poem being the first publication by 'Tasma' (Jessie Couvreur) whose maiden name was Jessie Katherine Huybers. In two other sources (Winifred Birkett,1938, and Patricia Clarke, Pen Portraits, 1988), the poem is referred to as 'Lines Addressed by a Mother to Her Idiot Son').
(p. 225-227)
A Widow's Lament Over Her Dead Idiot Boyi"Since God hath pleased himself to take away His own,", J. K. H. , single work poetry (p. 226-227)
Lawson, Furphy and Chaos, Ken A. Stewart , single work review
— Review of The Order of Things : A Life of Joseph Furphy John Barnes , 1990 single work biography ; Henry Lawson : A Life Colin Roderick , 1991 single work criticism biography ; The Life and Opinions of Tom Collins : A Study of the Works of Joseph Furphy Julian Croft , 1991 multi chapter work criticism ;
(p. 228-232)
[Review] Sheer Edge : Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing [et al], Ivor Indyk , single work review
— Review of Sheer Edge : Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing Karin Hansson , 1991 single work criticism biography ; Strange Country : A Study of Randolph Stow Anthony J. Hassall , 1986 single work criticism ; David Malouf : Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays and Interview David Malouf , 1990 selected work novel poetry short story prose criticism biography interview ; Imagined Lives : A Study of David Malouf Philip Neilsen , 1990 single work criticism ;
(p. 232-235)
Untitled, Julian Croft , single work review
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography ; Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , 1897 single work novel ;
(p. 235-238)
Untitled, Shirley Walker , single work review
— Review of Ada Cambridge : Her Life and Work 1844-1926 Audrey Tate , 1991 single work biography ; Bengala, or, Some Time Ago Mary Theresa Vidal , 1860 single work novel ; Thirty Years in Australia Ada Cambridge , 1903 single work autobiography ; Pioneer Writer : The Life of Louisa Atkinson : Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist Patricia Clarke , 1990 single work biography ; Rattling the Orthodoxies : A Life of Ada Cambridge Margaret Bradstock , Louise Wakeling , 1991 single work biography ;
(p. 238-241)
[Review] David Williamson : A Writer's Career, Richard Fotheringham , single work review
— Review of David Williamson : A Writer's Career Brian Kiernan , 1990 single work biography ;
(p. 241-243)
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