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Tales for Children
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— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
Presents for Kiddies
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review
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
Anecdote and Anthropomorphism : Writing the Australian Pied Butcherbird
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , Summer vol. 1 no. 2011; This paper surveys textual references to the Australian pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis). We begin with my initial encounter with this songbird (in re-worked excerpts from the book Post Impressions), and then expand our review to aboriginal stories, historic ornithological reports and field guides, informal stories, archival Australian periodicals, children’s literature, literary references, and composers’ texts. Many of these reveal the tension between the superlative pied butcherbird vocal abilities and their ferocious hunting prowess. The paper shuns neither anecdote nor anthropomorphism as it attempts a new mode of interspecies narrative. I argue that anecdotes can contribute to an understanding of this understudied songbird. In inventorying pied butcherbird textual references, we find that our stories about them are ultimately stories about us as well—anthropomorphism seems to be an innate human proclivity. Reflecting on the lives of animals is of psychological, intellectual, and metaphysical significance for humans. -
A Reader's Notebook
1934
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 3 December vol. 6 no. 12 1934; (p. 241)
— Review of One Hundred Years : The Romance of the Victorian People 1934 single work prose -
[Review] Blinky Bill Grows Up
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 November 1934; (p. 12)
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction
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A Book for Children
1934
single work
review
— Appears in: Narromine News and Trangie Advocate , 9 November 1934;
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
A Real Australian
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Sun , 20 October 1934;
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
An Australian Fable
1934
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review
— Appears in: Yass Tribune-Courier , 1 November 1934;
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
Books for Children
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Clifton Courier , 3 November 1934;
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
For the Little Ones
1934
single work
review
— Appears in: Catholic Press , 1 November 1934;
— Review of Blinky Bill Grows Up 1934 single work children's fiction -
A Reader's Notebook
1934
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 3 December vol. 6 no. 12 1934; (p. 241)
— Review of One Hundred Years : The Romance of the Victorian People 1934 single work prose -
Anecdote and Anthropomorphism : Writing the Australian Pied Butcherbird
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , Summer vol. 1 no. 2011; This paper surveys textual references to the Australian pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis). We begin with my initial encounter with this songbird (in re-worked excerpts from the book Post Impressions), and then expand our review to aboriginal stories, historic ornithological reports and field guides, informal stories, archival Australian periodicals, children’s literature, literary references, and composers’ texts. Many of these reveal the tension between the superlative pied butcherbird vocal abilities and their ferocious hunting prowess. The paper shuns neither anecdote nor anthropomorphism as it attempts a new mode of interspecies narrative. I argue that anecdotes can contribute to an understanding of this understudied songbird. In inventorying pied butcherbird textual references, we find that our stories about them are ultimately stories about us as well—anthropomorphism seems to be an innate human proclivity. Reflecting on the lives of animals is of psychological, intellectual, and metaphysical significance for humans.
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