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Ian Henderson Ian Henderson i(A3775 works by)
Born: Established: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Knockabout World : Patrick White, Kenneth Williams and the Queer Word Ian Henderson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White beyond the Grave : New Critical Perspectives 2015; (p. 181-192)
'...Henderson builds on McKenna's comparative biography and on queer theoretical approaches to White's writing, venturing a new interpretation of White's linguistic experimentation via a historical approach.' (Introduction 9)
1 Introduction Ian Henderson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White beyond the Grave : New Critical Perspectives 2015; (p. 1-13)
1 1 y separately published work icon Patrick White beyond the Grave : New Critical Perspectives Ian Henderson (editor), Anouk Lang (editor), New York (City) : Anthem Press , 2015 8798674 2015 anthology criticism

'Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. This collection of diverse and original essays is notable for its acknowledgement of White’s homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, in its consideration of the way his writing ‘works’ on/with readers, and for its contextualizing of his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life.' (Publication summary)

1 Modernism, Antipodernism, and Australian Aboriginality Ian Henderson , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonizing the Landscape : Indigenous Cultures in Australia 2014; (p. 89-106)

'THIS ESSAY DESCRIBES THE ENTANGLEMENT in Australia of three concepts: modernism; 'settler modernity'; and Aboriginality. Its three principal arguments are: (i) that European perceptions of Australian Aboriginal cultures were deeply influential in the development of modernism; (ii) that anxieties about the proximity of Aboriginal and settler peoples in Australia — but also resistance to European theories of Aboriginal culture not validated through personal experience of interacting with Aboriginal Australians — influenced strong anti-modernist sentiment among some Australian artists and writers; and (iii) that perhaps this 'anti-modernism' might instead be characterized as an 'alternative' modernism in Australia — an entanglement of visions of progress and degeneration — to which I will give the purposefully ugly label of 'antipedernism'. In developing these arguments I will make reference to Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913) as inflected by the work in Australia of Francis Gillen and Baldwin Spencer, and discuss writings by Miles Franklin in particular, as well as Katharine Susannah Prichard, D.H. Lawrence, A.D. Hope, and Christina Stead.'

Source: From paragraph one (p.89).

1 Beating Around the Bush : The Australian Legend and The Australian Tradition Frank Bongiorno , Ian Henderson , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 195-201)
1 Noongar Modernity and Jack Davis's The Dreamers Ian Henderson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 229-242)
1 Reading, Modernity, and the ‘Mental Lives of Savages’ Ian Henderson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This speculative article juxtaposes a series of impressions, like so many flashes of light, from which to suggest a change in European reading which coheres, at the turn of the twentieth century, around perceptions of Australian Aboriginality. The impressions have three sources: (a) high-profile British novels of the 1850s and 1860s with settings in, or significant references to, the Australian colonies; (b) 'discoveries' made by scientists of reading after 1878; and (c) the work of deeply influential European modernists James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, and Émile Durkheim, whose theories of the evolution of religious belief made extensive use of Francis Gillen's and Baldwin Spencer's work on the Arrernte people, notably The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899); the article focuses particularly on Freud's Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Thus using impressions of nineteenth-century physiological optics, the science of reading, and Freud's evolutionary psychology it develops a model of 'how readers were thought to have read' in the early decades of the twentieth-century in terms of a rhythmic release and containment exploitation/management) of savagery-neurosis.' (Author's abstract)
1 'Gee, Head Stockman!' : Prospects and Professions in Charles Chauvel's Jedda and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries Ian Henderson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodean Childhoods : Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand 2010; (p. 17-33)
1 Untitled Ian Henderson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 33 no. 4 2009; (p. 498-499)

— Review of Writing Never Arrives Naked : Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia Penny Van Toorn , 2006 single work criticism
1 Stranger Danger : Approaching Home and Ten Canoes Ian Henderson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: South Atlantic Quarterly , Winter vol. 108 no. 1 2009; (p. 53-70)
1 'Freud Has a Name for It' : A. A. Phillip's 'The Cultural Cringe' Ian Henderson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 2 2009; (p. 127-147) The Best Australian Essays 2010 2010; (p. 105-116)
Henderson argues that the primary concern of Phillips's essay 'The Cultural Cringe' was not the production but the reception of Australian writing and that the essay is 'underpinned by a reception theory that begets a culturally specific hsitory of reading'. His aim is 'to distil that theory, and I will do so by drawing together the history of Phillips's use of the term and his late characterization of it in specific psychoanalytic terms' (127).
1 y separately published work icon Reverse Diaspora : Australian Expatriate Writers Since the 1930s Anne Pender (lead researcher), Bruce Bennett (lead researcher), Ian Henderson (researcher), St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2008-2010 Z1799297 2008-2010 website bibliography biography The changing relations between Australia and Britain are explored through writers of literature and drama. Reverse Diaspora explores the aspirations, problems and achievements of approximately eighty expatriate Australians who have chosen to live and work in Britain since the early nineteenth century. From one point of view they represent a 'brain drain'; from another they are exporters of Australian ideas, experience and talent.
1 y separately published work icon Studies in Australasian Cinema Ian Henderson (editor), Deb Verhoeven (editor), 2007 Bristol : Intellect , 2007- Z1571533 2007 periodical (36 issues) This journal 'engages in critical discussion of cinema from the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific region. Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific regions are home to many indigenous nations and immigrant cultures from all around the world. Studies in Australasian Cinema will maintain an emphasis on this diversity with a special interest in postcolonial politics and contexts. ' Source: /www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ (Sighted 01/09/2009).
1 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vols 230, 260, 289, 325 Ian Henderson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 6 no. 1 2007; (p. 120-128)

— Review of Australian Literature, 1788-1914 2001 reference ; Australian Writers, 1915-1950 2002 reference ; Australian Writers , 1950-1975 2004 reference ; Australian Writers 1975-2000 2006 reference
1 Untitled Ian Henderson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 5 2006;

— Review of Lexical Images : The Story of the Australian National Dictionary W. S. Ramson , 2002 single work prose
1 Untitled Ian Henderson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 5 2006;

— Review of Whitefella Jump Up : The Shortest Way to Nationhood Germaine Greer , 2003 single work essay
1 Readers' Rites : Surpassing Style Ian Henderson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction 2006; (p. 101-116)
'A passer who recognises and admires another's equally convincing performance both succumbs to the other's superficial show and perceives the concealed techniques of its production: it is a matter of fully appreciating the other's style. So too certain narratives of passing oblige readers to negotiate a rite of passage through their conspicuous style: the mode of presentation becomes as important as the story the writer has fashioned and must be met with a style-conscious, paradoxical reading strategy for the tale to "tell". [...] In this chapter I will explore the reader's rites of passage in these two texts [Wild Cat Falling and Beneath Clouds], particularly as they impact upon the non-Indigenous reader, articulating the relevance of style to their comment upon racial identity.' -- From the author's introductory paragraph.
1 Untitled Ian Henderson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 9 2006;

— Review of Circus-Apprentice Katherine Gallagher , 2006 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Ian Henderson , 2006-2005 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 5 2006;

— Review of Creating Frames : Contemporary Indigenous Theatre : 1967-1990 Maryrose Casey , 2004 single work criticism ; Theatre Australia (Un)Limited : Australian Theatre Since the 1950s Geoffrey Milne , 2004 single work criticism ; Playing Australia : Australian Theatre and the International Stage 2003 anthology criticism
1 Mid-Victorian Reading and the Antipodes Ian Henderson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 3 2006; (p. 294-307)
Focusing on a process of reading 'conscripted' by Victorian sensation fiction, the article begins 'by outlining the European tradition of the Antipodes before discussing the conscription process using [Mary Elizabeth Braddon's] Lady Audley's Secret, and then comparing this to the discoveries and development of the early science of reading'. It concludes 'by alluding to the implications of this reading process for the formation of British imperial subjectivity, and the continuing role of the tradition of "the Antipodes"' (295).
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