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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The AustLit Anthology of Criticism
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'The City's Surrounded by Fire' : Michael Gow's The Kid, Paul Makeham , single work criticism (p. 21)
Dorothy Hewett, Candida Baker (interviewer), single work interview (p. 22)
Review of A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems, Lawrence Bourke , single work review
— Review of A Tremendous World in Her Head : Selected Poems Dorothy Hewett , 1989 selected work poetry ; (p. 23)
Dorothy Hewett's Garden and City, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 24)
What Colour Are the Dead? Madness, Race and National Gaze in Henry Lawson's The Bush Undertaker, Christopher Lee , single work criticism
Lee examines the National vs Imperial contestation for power in 'The Bush Undertaker' in the dicourse of the narrator and the hatter. The space between what the narrator 'knows' and reality is the site where the 'eccentric' or 'mad' emerges. This is the 'other' - that which is outside the Australian's 'national gaze'. Lee concludes that a 'stoic-heroic disengagement with [the grand Australian Bush] . . . identifies the character of the Australian Nation'.
 (p. 25)
The Drover's Wife Writ Large : One Measure of Lawson's Achievement, Brian Matthews , single work criticism
Matthews compares "The Drover's Wife" with the later story, "Water Them Geraniums", to demonstrate Lawson's artistic development. Matthews argues that "Water Them Geraniums" has a "depth and quality" not found in the "The Drover's Wife". This indicates that the development of Lawson's prose had reached a stage where his text "embodies . . . intricacies, doubts and confusions, rather than being a description of them".
 (p. 26)
'The Nurse and Tutor of Eccentric Minds' : Some Developments in Lawson's Treatment of Madness, Brian Matthews , single work criticism
Matthews argues that Lawson's exploration of madness in his stories helped him to understand the feelings of loneliness and alienation.
 (p. 27)
Henry Lawson : The People's Poet, Kay Schaffer , single work criticism
Schaffer considers the place of women in Lawson's fiction in relation to the many constructions of an authorial identity that supports various critical perspectives. Schaffer demonstrates that women are a signifier of lack within the discourse on the Australian tradition that uses Lawson as an example. This discourse, Schaffer argues, establishes a bond between the writer and his audience that stabilizes and solidifies the construction of a masculine national identity.
 (p. 28)
Lawson's Joe Wilson : A Skeleton Novel, Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work criticism
Wallace-Crabbe discusses the ways in which the stories of Joe Wilson and His Mates connect to produce a larger unified work. Lawson's self-analysis in this work provides many of the intertextual connections based primarily on biographical knowledge. The common element in these stories is Joe Wilson's attempts to "pull the threads of his past life into some shape".
 (p. 29)
Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision, Michael Wilding , single work criticism biography
Wilding challenges the critical consensus that dismisses Lawson's political writing. Wilding demonstrates that when these stories are analysed in historical and intellectual contexts a "rich specificity of social observation and political thought" is revealed.
 (p. 30)
David Malouf, Candida Baker (interviewer), single work biography interview (p. 31)
David Malouf and the Language of Exile, Peter Bishop , single work criticism
'Imaginal' reading of Malouf's novel.
 (p. 32)
Review of Fly Away Peter and Child's Play, David Brooks , single work review
— Review of Fly Away Peter David Malouf , 1982 single work novella ; Child's Play David Malouf , 1981 single work novella ; (p. 33)
Crossing Borders of the Self in the Fiction of David Malouf, Mark Byron , single work criticism
The essay investigates two of Malouf's novels with regard to the self-other relation: between characters in the story and between the text and the world of the reader. It focuses on three distinct self-other relations: 'the animal and the human (drawing on recent work in ethics by Giorgio Agamben); the relation between two humans as an I and a You (drawing on the theology of Martin Buber); and the human and divinity (drawing on the ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas)' (76).
 (p. 34)
At the Edge : Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf, Martin Leer , single work criticism (p. 35)
Review of Remembering Babylon, Andrew Taylor , single work review
— Review of Remembering Babylon David Malouf , 1993 single work novel ; (p. 36)
Sally Morgan's My Place : Two Views, Nene Gare , Patricia Crawford , single work criticism (p. 37)
Healing, Wholeness and Holiness in My Place, Frances De Groen , single work criticism (p. 38)
The Narrator as Witness : Testimony, Trauma and Narrative Form in My Place, Rosanne Kennedy , single work criticism (p. 39)
Aboriginal Subjection and Affirmation, Sue Thomas , single work criticism (p. 40)
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