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'The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend.
Many people regarded Dennis himself as a sentimental bloke, but this book shows he was a much more complex and sometimes darker personality - not only examining his humorous and lovable side, but also his struggles with alcohol and depression, his political activism, his marriage and his financial dealings.
An Unsentimental Bloke traces Dennis's early years in rural South Australia, his work on a bohemian newspaper in Adelaide and move to Melbourne as a freelancer for the Bulletin, his period of political involvement, followed by enormous successes (he was more popular than Banjo Paterson or Henry Lawson ever were), spectacular fall, and re-emergence as an elder statesman of Australian letters.' (Publisher's website)
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[Review] An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Work of C. J. Dennis
2016
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
Review : An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis
2016
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— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 225-228)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
[Review] An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis
2016
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May vol. 40 no. 2 2016; (p. 242-243)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
Forgotten Bloke
2015
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 October 2015; (p. 6-7)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
Forgotten Bloke
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 October 2015; (p. 12)
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'Our One Satirist'
2014
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 365 2014; (p. 38)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
[Review] : An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Work of C. J. Dennis
2014
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— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2014; (p. 59)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
[Review] An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Work of C. J. Dennis
2014
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 7 no. 1 2014;
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
[Review] An Unsentimental Bloke
2014
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— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December vol. 101 no. 2 2014; (p. 220-221)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
[Review] An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C. J. Dennis
2013
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 28 no. 4 2013; (p. 120-127)
— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis 2014 single work biography -
Larrikin Poet a Man of His Time
2014
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 13 May 2014; (p. 6-7) -
Dreaming Verse : C.J. Dennis and the Anzac Tradition
2014
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 158-180) -
Unsentimental Take on Original Larrikin Snags Biography Award
2015
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 August 2015; (p. 18) -
Literary Resurrection of the ‘Larrikin Laureate’ Proves Sheer Poetry
2015
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— Appears in: The Australian , 4 August 2015; (p. 3) -
Top Gong for Dennis Book
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 August 2015; (p. 14)
Awards
- 2015 winner National Biography Award
- 2013-2014 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Walter McRae Russell Award