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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... vol. 29 no. 1 June 2015 of Antipodes est. 1987 Antipodes
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Easy Listeningi"schmaltzy waltzy schmoozy oozy easy listening moodless music someone's smooth and couth and neutered", Edith Speers , single work poetry (p. 152)
Patrick White, Composer Manqué : The Centrality of Music in White's Artistic Aspiration, John Carmody , single work criticism
'Australian writer Patrick White was burdened with the reputation of a misanthrope. This was, perhaps, self-inflicted but it allowed many to disregard the sensitivity and insights of his writing. It is nevertheless surprising that most critics and readers seem unaware of his deep engagement with music. Certainly, few (if any) literary critics appear to recognize the significance of music in his output. Here, Carmody contends that not only was music profoundly important to White as a human being, but that it fundamentally drove his work. Without a recognition of this crucial importance of music, it is impossible to understand adequately White's aesthetic aspiration.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 153-161)
The Birthday Cakei"It was once. it was altogether. it was in a big way. it was yesterday, tomorrow and today. it was fast. it was sheer.", Cath Vidler , single work poetry (p. 162)
A "Bay of Whispers" : Seascape in Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiancé, Rosalind McFarlane , single work criticism
'The ocean as a border in Australia has been gaining increasing attention, not only with the arrival of asylum seekers by boat and the relentless government policies to prevent this, but also the connections with Asia that Australia's part of Oceania suggests. Recent scholarship by critics such as Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Suvendrini Perera, and Elizabeth McMahon explore the way representations of oceans can evoke, on the one hand, this doubled sense of insularity and threat, but on the other possibility and connection. Despite the ocean's dominant presence and the way it frames conflict and intimate moments, scholarship on Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiance has frequently focused on the way the novel deals with racism in Australia via the Eurasian woman's experience of the White Australia Policy. Here, McFarlane examines the depiction of the sea in Lazaroo's novel as it engages with a kind of insularity with reflection and connective possibility in relation to globalization.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 163-173)
Tomorrow, Fikret Pajalic , single work short story (p. 174-180)
Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland : Christian Yandell's Alice, Michael Organ , single work criticism
'Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of radical London-based artists who appeared mid-century, united in rebellion against Royal Academy training and the artistic traditions of their birth. This group sought to replicate nature's realism in a framework of contemporary, medieval, and high-literary subjects. Its formation had coincided with the mid-century blossoming and democratization of photography, giving rise to more photographers and a greater variety of subjects. One of the most talented exponents of the camera at the time, and a close friend of key members including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was Charles Dodgson. Using the alias Lewis Carroll, he published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)–both revolutionary works of juvenile fantasy fiction. Their appearance at the far end of Pre-Raphaelitism may suggest a disconnect from the aims and objectives of the Brotherhood, and Dodgson's Wonderland, with its strangely timeless and decidedly unrealistic world of talking plants and animals, was in many ways the very antithesis of Pre-Raphaelitism. Here, Organ examines a narrative art by Australian artist Christian Yandell. A latecomer to the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist worlds of myth and legend, Yandell's work from the 1910s through to the 1930s strongly reflected both, with theosophical underpinnings eventually dominating.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 181-191)
Scratch Thati"he's currently living in separation", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 192)
A Poetic Revolution in Keywords : On Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism
'Yu discusses the revolution of contemporary Chinese poetry. Among other things, he examines the poems by Xu Xiangchou, dubbed leader of laipai (rubbish group).' (Publication abstract)
(p. 193-215)
Thorough Pictures of the Heart, Gillian Bouras , single work prose
'Bouras describes two works of art: E. Phillips Fox's The Letter and Johannes Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Separated in time by more than two centuries and were painted in very different places, both works depict women reading letters. Among other things, Bouras laments on the ever-hastening disappearance of letters. She notes that a love email can never be the same as love letter.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 216-225)
A Woman Unhinged, Who Refuses to Be Doomed, Christie Hinrichs , single work review
— Review of All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld , 2013 single work novel ;
(p. 226-227)
A Writer's Story of a Hacker's Life, Jacob Pinkston , single work review
— Review of Amnesia Peter Carey , 2014 single work novel ;
(p. 227-228)
The Heart Is Wicked, Victoria Avery , single work review
— Review of Golden Boys Sonya Hartnett , 2014 single work novel ;
(p. 230-231)
Time, Place, and Identity Converge in the Shadows, Mollie Murray , single work review
— Review of Standing in the Shadow : Three Novellas Peter Corris , 2013 selected work novella ;
(p. 232-233)
Eight Broken and the Unspoken : A Peephole into a Love Affair with China, Jennifer Popa , single work review
— Review of Bapo Nicholas Jose , 2014 selected work short story ;
(p. 233-235)
Harder on the Living, Tom Moran , single work review
— Review of Shrine : A Play in One Act Tim Winton , 2013 single work drama ;
(p. 235-236)
Darkness Conscious, Christopher Miles , single work review
— Review of Keeps : With Patience, Mutiny and Man Wolf Man L. K. Holt , 2014 selected work poetry ;
(p. 236-238)
Everyone Here Is a Visitor, Sarah Jane Holsteen , single work review
— Review of On Bondi Beach Ann Game , Andrew Metcalfe , Demelza Marlin , 2013 single work prose ;
(p. 238-239)
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