• Author:agent Joseph Furphy http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/furphy-joseph
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Such is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins
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An extract from Furphy's novel Such is Life.

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    y separately published work icon Western Australian Writing : An Online Anthology John Kinsella (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2003 Z1075006 2003 anthology poetry autobiography biography correspondence essay extract prose short story Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2003

Works about this Work

Expressing a New Civilisation : Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890s Roger Osborne , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 9-17)

'In the years after 1 January 1901, when ideas of a new Australian civilisation began to emerge in the wake of Federation, two novels emerged from the 1890s to become touchstones for future discussions of Australian literature and Australian literary culture: Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph Furphy’s Such Is Life (1903). These novels represent the final moments in a long chain of events that occurred within a complex and dynamic network of individuals and institutions, all claiming some stake, small or large, in the expression and critique of Australian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. By focussing on the process of literary production rather than the product, this chapter aims to draw further attention to the evidence of multiple authorship in Australia’s literary history in order to encourage new readings of the textual, material, and cultural lives of literary works.'

Source: Abstract

Scenes of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature? Robert Dixon , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 71-83)
'Robert Dixon explores how Australian literature can negotiate between provincial, national and world literary space. At what appears to be a lime of unprecedented internationalisation, can Australian literature be considered a world literature, or does it remain a relatively minor national literature embedded uncertainly in world literary space?' (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xiv)
Untitled Thea Biesheuvel , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Ring of Bright Water , June-July vol. 25 no. 3 2012; (p. 2-3)

— Review of Such is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Joseph Furphy , 2003 extract novel
Literary Heroes Forgotten Michael Heywood , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 22 January 2012; (p. 9)
Untitled Thea Biesheuvel , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Ring of Bright Water , June-July vol. 25 no. 3 2012; (p. 2-3)

— Review of Such is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Joseph Furphy , 2003 extract novel
Literary Heroes Forgotten Michael Heywood , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 22 January 2012; (p. 9)
Scenes of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature? Robert Dixon , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 71-83)
'Robert Dixon explores how Australian literature can negotiate between provincial, national and world literary space. At what appears to be a lime of unprecedented internationalisation, can Australian literature be considered a world literature, or does it remain a relatively minor national literature embedded uncertainly in world literary space?' (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xiv)
Expressing a New Civilisation : Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890s Roger Osborne , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 9-17)

'In the years after 1 January 1901, when ideas of a new Australian civilisation began to emerge in the wake of Federation, two novels emerged from the 1890s to become touchstones for future discussions of Australian literature and Australian literary culture: Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph Furphy’s Such Is Life (1903). These novels represent the final moments in a long chain of events that occurred within a complex and dynamic network of individuals and institutions, all claiming some stake, small or large, in the expression and critique of Australian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. By focussing on the process of literary production rather than the product, this chapter aims to draw further attention to the evidence of multiple authorship in Australia’s literary history in order to encourage new readings of the textual, material, and cultural lives of literary works.'

Source: Abstract

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