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Literature of the Pacific, Mainly Australian
2013
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— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , vol. 12 no. 2 2013; (p. 210-219)This lecture is in some ways the ‘lost’ chapter of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009), one eventually not written because the projected author could find not enough literary material even in that vast Pacific Ocean, or perhaps found – as mariners have – only far separated specks in that ocean. Yet Australian literature about the nation’s Pacific littoral and the islands within the ocean and the ocean itself is varied, considerable, and often eccentric. Our greatest drinking song is Barry Humphries’s ‘The Old Pacific Sea’. The Japs and the jungle are the hallmarks of fiction, poetry and reportage of the Pacific War of 1942-5. New Guinea has attracted such writers as James McAuley, Peter Ryan, Trevor Shearston, Randolph Stow and Drusilla Modjeska. The short stories of Louis Becke are the most extensive and iconoclastic writing about the Pacific by any Australian. Yet the literature of the Pacific littoral seems thinner than that of the Indian Ocean. The map on the title page of Rolf Boldrewood’s A Modern Buccaneer (1894) shows those afore-mentioned specks in a vast expanse of water. What aesthetic challenges have Pacific writing posed and how have they been met? Have the waters of the Pacific satisfied Australians as a near offshore playground but defeated wider efforts of the imagination? ' (Publication summary)
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Strewth! : Short-Term Memoir
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian , 16-17 May 2009; (p. 26) -
A Literary Stroll in Australia's Cities
2000
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 11 June 2000; (p. 10) -
Accessible But Will They Last the Distance?
1993
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 151 1993; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography ; The ALS Guide to Australian Writers 1992 single work bibliography -
Road to the Literary Land of Gebel
1993
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criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 3 April 1993; (p. 9)
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Untitled
1987
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— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , October vol. 2 no. 10 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography -
Up at a Villa, Down in the City
1987
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 41 1987; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography -
A Wealth of Travel - and Trivia
1987
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 6-7 June 1987; (p. 12)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography -
Australia as Place and People
1987
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review
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 90)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography -
Booze does Better than Jails in our Oz Lit Guide
1987
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 June 1987; (p. 48)
— Review of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia 1987 single work criticism biography bibliography -
Strewth! : Short-Term Memoir
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian , 16-17 May 2009; (p. 26) -
Canons, Culture and Consensus: Australian Literature and the Bicentenary
1992
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— Appears in: Celebrating the Nation : A Critical Study of Australia's Bicentenary 1992; (p. 69-86) -
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The Official Launching of Oxford Literary Guide to Australia at the Australian Defence Force Academy, 1987
1987
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Australian Defence Force Academy. Library
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Z154547
1987
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film/TV
Launched by then Minister for Defence, Kim Beazley. Introduced by Lynn Hard with a speech by Peter Pierce.
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Take Your Partners
1989
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— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 8-9 July 1989; (p. 1) -
The Birth of a Literary Study to Call Our Own
1992
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— Appears in: The Australian , 9 September 1992; (p. 20)