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The essays in this volume emerged from a conference sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Australian Studies in late 2002. (p.xiii)

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Harvard University, Committee on Australian Studies , 2004 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Out of England : Literary Subjectivity in the Australian Colonies, 1788-1867, Simon During , single work criticism
'...During traces the formation and transformation of 'modern literary subjectivity' in the distinctive conditions of nineteenth century Australia.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
(p. 3-21)
Dead White Male Heroes : Ludwig Leichhardt and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions, Susan K. Martin , single work criticism (p. 23-52)
Escaping the Bush Paradigm, Lucy Frost , single work criticism (p. 53-65)
David Malouf, History, and an Ethics of the Body, Andrew Taylor , single work criticism (p. 67-81)
Identity, Play, Imagination : David Malouf, Hossein Valamanesh, and I, Ihab Hassan , single work criticism
Discusses the concept of identity in the work of David Malouf and Iranian-born Australian artist Hossein Valamanesh.
(p. 83-105)
'Inner Experience' in Gerald Murnane's The Plains, Andrew Zawacki , single work criticism (p. 108-119)
'The First White Man Born' : Miscegenation and Identity in Kim Scott's Benang, Tony Birch , single work criticism (p. 137-157)
The Mystery of the Missing Middlebrow, or, The C(o)urse of Good Taste, David Carter , single work criticism (p. 173-201)
A Short While Toward the Sun : The Golden Years of Internationalism, Frank Moorhouse , single work criticism
Moorhouse dicusses the writing of his two novels dealing with the League of Nations
(p. 203-217)
The Man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975, Meaghan Morris , single work criticism (p. 235-266)
'Woful Shepherds' : Anti-Pastoral in Australian Poetry, Paul Kane , single work criticism (p. 269-283)
Two Versions of the Australian Pastoral : Les Murray and William Robinson, Robert Dixon , single work criticism
Discusses the treatment of landscape, rural life, nature and ecology in the poetry of Les Murray and the paintings of William Robinson.
(p. 285-304)
Darkness and Lostness : How to Read a Poem by Judith Wright, Kevin Hart , single work criticism (p. 305-319)
The Presentation and Performance of Self in the Poetry of John Forbes, Brian Henry , single work criticism (p. 321-332)
'Split Belonging' in Les Murray's Novel in Verse, Fredy Neptune, Judith Ryan , single work criticism (p. 332-352)
The End of the Line, Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work criticism (p. 353-361)

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Works about this Work

Italy and the Transformation of the Traveller in Robert Dessaix's Night Letters Roberta Trape , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagined Australia : Reflections around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity between Australia and Europe 2009; (p. 215-231)
This article focuses on 'the representation of Italy in Robert Dessaix's Night Letters (1996.)Trape states that the novel 'adds to a considerable corpus of texts by Australian writers, which are based on their travel experiences' and that Night Letters presents a process of self-knowledge and self-discovery, which unfolds through the discovery of the country.' (216)
Untitled Robert Clarke , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 3 2006; (p. 391-393)

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Untitled Mads Clausen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , April no. 42 2006;

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Us, Them and Everybody Else : The New Humanities in Australia Ken Gelder , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 181 2005; (p. 54-63)
The author examines the state of the humanities in Australia.
Internationalising Australian Studies : Non-Fiction 2004 - 2005 Robert Dixon , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 128-143)
Argues a need for Australian literary studies and Australian studies in general to move beyond the national paradign that was a necessary part of their original disciplinary formation.
Is This Our Kind of Oz? Luke Beesley , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 January 2005; (p. 7)

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Poison and Thorn Lisa Gorton , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 271 2005; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Fresh Tracks to Explore Australian Culture Joy W. Hooton , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 July 2005; (p. 13)

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Going Global Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 64 no. 3 2005; (p. 103-108)

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Untitled Mads Clausen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , April no. 42 2006;

— Review of Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004 anthology criticism
Internationalising Australian Studies : Non-Fiction 2004 - 2005 Robert Dixon , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 128-143)
Argues a need for Australian literary studies and Australian studies in general to move beyond the national paradign that was a necessary part of their original disciplinary formation.
Us, Them and Everybody Else : The New Humanities in Australia Ken Gelder , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 181 2005; (p. 54-63)
The author examines the state of the humanities in Australia.
Italy and the Transformation of the Traveller in Robert Dessaix's Night Letters Roberta Trape , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagined Australia : Reflections around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity between Australia and Europe 2009; (p. 215-231)
This article focuses on 'the representation of Italy in Robert Dessaix's Night Letters (1996.)Trape states that the novel 'adds to a considerable corpus of texts by Australian writers, which are based on their travel experiences' and that Night Letters presents a process of self-knowledge and self-discovery, which unfolds through the discovery of the country.' (216)
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