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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,:Association for the Study of Australian Literature , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Harold Stewart's Fear of Flying : Poetry, Homosexuality and the Ern Malley Affair, Michael Ackland , single work criticism
Michael Ackland comments on Harold Stewart's repressed homosexuality and it's effect on Stewart's poetry.
 (p. [1]-9)
The Cosmopolitan Pastoral : The Paddock, the Novel, and the Nation, Robert Beardwood , single work criticism

Using Murray Bail's Eucalyptus and Nicholas Jose's The Custodians Robert Beardwood shows how Australian writing reflects concerns of claims to place and tensions between longing and belonging, Australian place and Australian identity at the end of the 20th century.

 (p. [10]-20)
Cultural Production : Commissioning Books in Contemporary Australia, Diane Brown , single work criticism
Diane Brown argues that, as well as cultural and commercial trends, the personal beliefs, values and assumptions of editors and publishers also influence the production of books in Australia.
 (p. [21]-29)
A Sunday Morning Chat with Peter Minter, Debbie Comerford (interviewer), single work interview (p. [30]-45)
Whateveri"Where. Again angels , simply", Peter Minter , single work poetry (p. 38-41)
Endurancei"Somewhere at the far end of thinking,", Peter Minter , single work poetry (p. 44-45)
Lingo and Literature, Peter Conrad , single work essay
Peter Conrad discusses the inventiveness of the Australian language.
 (p. [46]-58)
Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism, C. A. Cranston , single work criticism
The author looks at the differences between natural history writing and nature writing using examples from Tasmanian writing, and discusses the belle letteristic (or essay) form and ecowriting in prose fiction.
 (p. [59]-67)
Intimate Imperialism : Alan Gould's 'The Tazyrik Year', Rosamund Dalziell , single work criticism (p. [68]-77)
Multum In Parvo : Intertexts and Yin Yang Symbolism in Nicholas Jose's The Rose Crossing, J. M. Q. Davies , single work criticism (p. [78]-85)
Convicts, Coolies and Colonialism : Reorienting the Prisoner-of-War Narrative, Frances De Groen , single work criticism
Frances de Groen looks at prisoner of war writings from the Pacific War as a branch of prison literature rather than of war literature. The author also discusses parallels between prisoner of war narratives and convict literature and allusions to the Robinson Crusoe myth in both.
 (p. [86]-94)
Calypso and the Bush, Peter Doley , single work criticism
A comparison between the lyrics of calypso from Trinidad and Tobago and the bush ballad.
 (p. [95]-102)
Cultural Determinants : Publishing the Australian Literary Estate 1990-2000, Anne Galligan , single work criticism
The relationships between the independent Australian publishing houses and the multinational publishing houses publishing in Australia.
 (p. [103]-111)
Recovering Australian Popular Fiction : Towards the End of Australian Literature, Ken Gelder , single work criticism (p. [112]-120)
Girt by Sea : Islands in the Novels of Thea Astley and Christopher Koch, Paul Genoni , single work criticism (p. [121]-127)
Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland : No More 'Hiding the Stain', Chad Habel , single work criticism
Habel discusses the significance of ancestry for Koch's characters with focus on Langford in Highways to War and Devereaux in Out of Ireland.
 (p. [128]-134)
Hobart and 'Home' in Tasma and Mrs Humphry Ward, Margaret Harris , single work criticism
Issues of imperialism and identity in the fiction of Tasma and in Mrs Humphry Ward's colonial novel Canadian Born.
 (p. [135]-144)
Altering Horizons : An Aesthetic of Reception and Reproduction in Oscar and Lucinda, Alice Healy , single work criticism
"[Explores] the changing conditions under which texts, such as Oscar and Lucinda are read, interpreted, translated and reproduced by using the theories of [Hans Robert] Jauss and [Wolfgang] Iser."
 (p. [145]-150)
Mission Statements : Textuality and Morality in the Colonial Archive, Anna Johnston , single work criticism
Johnston discusses missionary Lancelot Edward Threlkeld's writings as colonial texts.
 (p. [151]-160)
These Books Were Made for Walkin' : Literary Guidebooks as Cultural Tourism, Peter Kirkpatrick , single work criticism (p. [161]-167)
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