y separately published work icon Australian Writing and the City : Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference Held at the New South Wales Writers' Centre Sydney 2-6 July 1999 anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Australian Writing and the City : Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference Held at the New South Wales Writers' Centre Sydney 2-6 July 1999
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Association for the Study of Australian Literature , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sydney, Not the Bush, Peter Conrad , single work criticism (p. 7-17)
The Camp as 'New Albion' : Early Visions and Views of Sydney, Deirdre Coleman , single work criticism (p. 18-30)
Approximating the World : Women, 'Civilisation' and Colonial Melbourne, Rowena Mohr , single work criticism (p. 31-37)
Randolph the Reckless : Explorations in Australian Masculine Identity, 1889-1941, Cheryl M. Taylor , single work criticism (p. 38-45)
Ready-Made Dissidence? The Figure of the Factory Girl in Modern Australian Poetry, Ann Vickery , single work criticism (p. 46-53)
'A little bit of the real Sydney' : Comparing Gender, Socialism and the City in Works by William Lane and Christina Stead, Brigid Rooney , single work criticism (p. 54-61)
Walking through "Seven Poor Men of Sydney", Peter Kirkpatrick , single work criticism (p. 62-67)
Down (but not Out) in the City, Julian Croft , single work criticism (p. 68-76)
A Prose 'Kinema' : Kenneth Slessor's Film Writing, Philip Mead , single work criticism (p. 77-87)
Post-Carnivalism in David Ireland's "The Unknown Industrial Prisoner", David Musgrave , single work criticism (p. 88-93)
Vincent Buckley : The City and the Sacred, Noel Rowe , single work criticism (p. 94-100)
'Something Brand New on the Skyline' : Renovating the City in Contemporary Australian Detective Fiction, Robert Beardwood , single work criticism (p. 101-107)
The Urbanisation of Australia : Representations of Australia in Popular Culture, Selina Samuels , single work criticism (p. 108-114)
Urban Shocks and Local Scandals : "Blackrock" and the Problem of Australian True-crime Fiction, Donna Lee Brien , single work criticism (p. 115-121)
The City and the Contemporary Australian Long Poem, David McCooey , single work criticism (p. 122-128)
Brian Castro's Tokyo : Schizophrenic Semiotic, Bernadette Brennan , single work criticism (p. 127-137)
Michael Wilding's 'Lost Illusions' : The Balzacian Underpinnings of "Wildest Dreams", Don Graham , single work criticism
Discusses the literary connections between Balzac's Lost Illusions and Wilding's Wildest Dreams.
 (p. 138-143)
An Australian Convict in the Great English City : Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs", Sigrun Meinig , single work criticism
Examines the significance of the metropolis London in post-colonial thinking in general and in Carey's novel in particular, and explores the novel's "Australianness" in relation to the ending of Jack Maggs.
 (p. 144-149)
Do We Have a Discipline? The Great Aust Lit Debate, Leon Cantrell , single work criticism (p. 150-156)
Nostalgia in the Global City : Recuperating the Battler in the Sydney Production of "Cloudstreet", Tom Burvill , single work criticism
Explores the 1998 production of the drama Cloudstreet (produced by Company B Belvoir, directed by Neil Armfield) and its function as a powerful communal cultural moment.
 (p. 157-163)
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