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1 The Reflective Moment : Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia Susan Carson , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020;
1 An Expatriated Adventurer : Charmian Clift and the Utopian Possibility Susan Carson , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 1 2019;

'For 20 years Charmian Clift wrote fiction and non-fiction from locations in Australia, England and Greece. When she returned to Australia from Greece in 1964, she explored new career opportunities in newspapers and television. Throughout this long period of publication Clift worked on an autobiographical fiction that she hoped to publish when time permitted. This paper examines the dimensions of a utopian spirit that supported Clift’s journey across countries and genres in search of an authorial self in which she felt most ‘at home. Travel memoir, journalism and fiction, as well as extracts from Clift’s unfinished autobiographical work ‘The End of the Morning,’ are examined to describe her engagement with utopian principles as a way of achieving, through writing, social change and personal fulfilment.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Children’s Chorus : Sibling Soundscapes in The Man Who Loved Children Susan Carson , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 8 December vol. 31 no. 6 2016;

'The voices of children in The Man Who Loved Children allow Christina Stead to re-imagine her childhood and also to provide a platform for representing the struggles of children more broadly. Using a diverse range of narrative techniques Stead orchestrates the voices of the siblings to provide a soundscape for the Pollit world that dramatizes and at times directs the eccentricities of adult behaviour. In so doing Stead grants the children a type of agency that is unusual in the framework of adult fiction and thereby offers readers a new way to think about children. The tonal qualities created by Stead to represent the collective voice of the Pollit siblings are of strategic importance to the narrative and an important strand in the array of language strategies that Stead uses to open a space for the child’s perspective. This essay examines the ‘sound’ of the children in Stead’s novel and comments on connections with Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in which children also frame narrative action. The novels present a family at a moment of social change and create an opportunity for readers to listen to the voice of the child as mediated by writers who worked with sound as a component of their experimental fiction.'

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1 David Malouf and Friends Explores Tricks of Memory and Place Susan Carson , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 May 2014;
1 Loving Europe : Peel Me a Lotus and Australian Women Writing Travel Susan Carson , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 217-224)
1 'The Rest Flies Down the Wind' : Complexities of Late Style in the Work of Christina Stead Susan Carson , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 253-257)
1 Coleridge's Bucket List Susan Carson , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 26-27)
1 Engaging the Metaphorical City : Brisbane Male Fiction 1975-2007 Susan Carson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sweat : The Subtropical Imaginary 2011; (p. 45-53) 'Brisbane writers and writing are increasingly represented as important to the city's identity as a site of urban cool, at least in marketing and public relations paradigms. It is therefore remarkable that recent Brisbane fiction clings strongly to a particular relationship to the climatic and built environment that is often located in the past and which seemingly turns away, or at least elides, the 'new' technologically-driven Brisbane. Literary Brisbane is often depicted in the context of nostalgia for the Brisbane that once was—a tropical, timbered, luxuriant city in which sex is associated with heat, and, in particular, sweat. In this writing sweat can produced by adrenaline or heat, but in particular, in Brisbane novels, it is the sweat of sex that characterises the literary city. Given that Brisbane is in fact a subtropical city, it is interesting that metaphors of a tropical climate and vegetation occur so frequently in Brisbane stories (and narratives set in other parts of the state) that writer Thea Astley was prompted at one point to remark that Queensland writing was in danger of developing into a tropical cliché.' Susan Carson.
1 Untitled Susan Carson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011;
— Review of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010 anthology criticism
1 Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark Susan Carson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 229-244) Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.
1 Untitled Susan Carson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism
1 Spun from Four Horizons : Re-Writing the Sydney Harbour Bridge Susan Carson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 33 no. 4 2009; (p. 417-429) 'The Sydney Harbour Bridge provides an imaginative space that is revisited by Australian writers in particular ways. In this space, novelists, poets, and cultural historians negotiate questions of emotional and psychological transformation as well as reflect on social and environmental change in the city of Sydney. The writerly tensions that mark these accounts often alter, or query, representations of the Bridge as a symbol of material progress and demonstrate a complex creative engagement with the Bridge. This discussion of 'the Bridge' focuses on the work of four authors, Eleanor Dark, P.R. Stephensen, Peter Carey and Vicki Hastrich and includes a range of other fictional and non-fictional accounts of 'Bridge-writing.' The ideas proffered are framed by a theorising of space, especially referencing the work of Michel de Certeau, whose writing on the spatial ambiguity of a bridge is important to the examination of the diverse ways in which Australian writers have engaged with the imaginative potential and almost mythic resonance of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.' (p. 417)
1 Finding Hy-Brazil : Eugenics and Modernism in the Pacific Susan Carson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 35 no. 1/2 2009; (p. 124-133)

This essay provides : 'a summary of the Australian literary engagement with eugenics as a broad category, followed by a discussion of the selective aspects of national and international eugenics ideas, before moving to a fuller examination of Prelude to Christopher.' (p 125)
1 Writing the Pacific Rim: Women's Writing, Australia and China Susan Carson , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , Second Quarter vol. 24 no. 2 2005; (p. 29-31)
1 Untitled Susan Carson , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 256-258)
— Review of Charmian and George : The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift Max Brown , 2004 single work biography
1 A Girl's Guide to Modernism's Grammar : Language Politics in Experimental Women's Fiction Susan Carson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 30 no. 1 2004; (p. 176-183) This article 'is interested in representations of modernism and modernist literary strategies in Australian women's fiction, arguing that a narrow and constricting definition of the term 'modernism' has obscured the connections between Australian writing and European modernist practices' (p.176). The author examines these issues in relation to the inter-war writings of Stead and Dark.
1 Death by Mismanagement: Cusack's Love Story Susan Carson , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 14 no. 2 2002;
— Review of Say No to Death Dymphna Cusack , 1951 single work novel
1 Untitled Susan Carson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 13 no. 3 2001; (p. 146-148)
— Review of Investigations in Australian Literature Ken A. Stewart , 2000 selected work criticism
1 Poor Icarus Charmian Susan Carson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 13 no. 1 2001;
— Review of The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review AWBR vol. 13 no. 1 Carole Ferrier (editor), Shirley Tucker (editor), Susan Carson (editor), St Lucia : Hecate Press , 2001 Z911314 2001 periodical issue
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