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Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism
New York (City)
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Palgrave Macmillan
,
2021
21207298
2021
multi chapter work
criticism
'This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In Australia’s earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M. Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of the city ‘built on water’. Mapping Sydney via its watery and littoral places, these writers trace impacts of empire, commercial capitalism, global trade and technology on the city, while drawing on estuarine logics of flow and blockage, circulation and sedimentation to innovate modes of writing temporally, geographically and aesthetically specific to Sydney’s provincial modernity. Contributing to the growing field of oceanic or aqueous studies, Sydney and its Waterway and Australian Modernism shows the capacity of water and human-water relations to make both generative and disruptive contributions to urban topography and narrative topology.'
Source : publisher's blurb
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Reflectant Tides : The Aqueous Poetics of Sydney in Women's Fiction, 1934-1947
Penrith
:
2018
18029044
2018
single work
thesis
'In Sydney, the period between the two world wars was a time of rapid change, when ‘modern’ was considered a goal to which the city and its people should strive. The 1930s were bookended by the opening of the Harbour Bridge in 1932 and the 1938 Sesquicentenary of the First Fleet’s landing, two events that figured Sydney as the triumphant end point of a narrative of national, white Australian progress. This period also saw the publication of a number of novels by Australian women writers that took the contemporary city as their setting and scrutinised urban modernity as a state of being and an ideological position. This thesis takes as its focus five novels that depict and debate the multiple and often combative discourses of modernity that flowed through Australia’s first and most populous urban centre in the interwar period: Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934) by Christina Stead, Jungfrau (1936) by Dymphna Cusack, Waterway (1938) by Eleanor Dark, Foveaux (1939) by Kylie Tennant, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983) by M. Barnard Eldershaw. Through close reading within and across the novels, I argue that this generation of women writers pioneered a distinctly Australian, modern urban poetics that is best described as aqueous. Responding to Sydney as a dynamic estuarine environment, each writer mobilises water as location and literary device, infusing the modern city’s spaces and processes with productively aqueous qualities of changeability and circulation, unsettlement and motility. Making heuristic use of a Benjaminian framework for dialectical urban thinking, I read this aqueous poetics of Sydney against the narrative of progress epitomised by the Bridge and Sesquicentenary, arguing that in contradistinction to this narrative, the novels present an Australian urban modernity of material emplacement in an unpredictably watery sphere, where history settles and sediments, multiple ideological schemas flow into one another, and relations between bodies, space and power generate constant contestation.'
Source: Abstract.
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'To Be Rid, To Be Rid of It' : Abortion and the Cosmopolitan Modern in Dymphna Cusack's Jungfrau
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 2001; (p. 59-81) -
The Queen of Australian Soap: Deconstructing Dymphna Cusack
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 59 no. 2 1999; (p. 129-155) -
"Heroines" in Australian Fictions: "Myths" of Adolescence
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes : Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 1992; (p. 81-88)
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Fresh Breath of Scandal
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1989; (p. 90-91)
— Review of Jungfrau 1936 single work novel -
In Brief
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 40)
— Review of Jungfrau 1936 single work novel -
Daughters of Freedom
1936
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 December vol. 57 no. 2964 1936; (p. 4)
— Review of Jungfrau 1936 single work novel -
In Paper from Israel to Armidale
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 May 1989; (p. 85)
— Review of Jungfrau 1936 single work novel ; The Woman at the Window 1989 selected work short story ; Winter in Jerusalem 1986 single work novel -
Paperbacks
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 July 1989; (p. 23)
— Review of Jungfrau 1936 single work novel -
'To Be Rid, To Be Rid of It' : Abortion and the Cosmopolitan Modern in Dymphna Cusack's Jungfrau
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 2001; (p. 59-81) -
Come in Dymphna
Marie Knuckey
(interviewer),
1980
single work
biography
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 August 1980; (p. 14) -
Ellen Dymphna Cusack
1936
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 16 September vol. 57 no. 2953 1936; (p. 2) -
Jungfrau
1989
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Jungfrau 1989; (p. v-xv) -
FemLit : Here We Go Again - But Why?
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 May 1989; (p. 84)
Awards
- 1935 second S.H. Prior Memorial Prize
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1930s