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Volume one of autobiographical trilogy.
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Dedication: For that best of friends Kenneth Slessor
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Bad Memories : Mary Lord's Hal Porter : Man of Many Parts
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 470-476) -
'My Father's Knife' : Autobiography as Hermeneutic Phenomenology
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 7 no. 3 2010; (p. 317-323) -
A Broth of Gems; the Sky without Mother
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 198-214) 'Some thoughts about the way Hal Porter makes his readers complicit inwhat happens inside the writer's mind.' (Author's note.) -
Most Theatrical When Most Personal
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 60-79) -
Watching the Watcher : Hal Porter's Autobiography
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Protean Forms of Life Writing : Auto/Biography in English, 1680-2000 2008; (p. 61-74)
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Samples from a Catalogue
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , December no. 4 1963; (p. 90-93,95-96)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography ; Favourite Australian Poems 1963 anthology poetry ; The Man Whose Name Was Mud 1963 single work novel ; Green Gold 1963 single work novel -
Behind the Balustrades
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 November vol. 85 no. 4372 1963; (p. 47-48)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Listener , 14 November 1963; (p. 803)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
[Review] The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October vol. 2 no. 12 1963; (p. 192)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 1 November 1963; (p. 883)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Orientalism and Nostalgia: Hal Porter and Japan
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Selves Crossing Cultures : Autobiography and Globalisation 2002; (p. 91-101) -
Pulped Fiction, It's a Fact
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 April 2005; (p. 32) -
'No One but I Will Know': Hal Porter's Honesty
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , February no. 41 2007; Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 194-212) Rowe argues: 'Porter's texts - and here I am deliberately merging autobiography and fiction on the grounds that they employ the same fictive strategies - permit a reader to return paedophilia to narrative and examine how it functions within stories that make a virtue of secrecy even as they evacuate those notions of goodness and responsibility that make virtue credible'. -
The Biter Bit : Literary Criticism and the Law of Defamation
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Happy Couple : Law and Literature 1994; (p. 211-219) Peter Heerey considers the potential restrictions upon literary and artistic criticism posed by the law of defamation. Among his examples are Porter v Mercury Newspapers [1964] Tas SR 279 and O'Shaughnessy v Mirror Newspapers (1970) 125 CLR 166. -
The Self Observed : Hal Porter's Australian Autobiography The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A/B : Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 8 no. 1 1993; (p. 91-101)
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