| Description |
xxii, 638 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : some coloured illustrations, portraits and facsimiles ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Australian literary studies |
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Australian literary studies
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 1943 Invisible, unacknowledged, but ubiquitous: Nan McDonald joins Angus & Robertson / Louise Poland -- 1943 American servicemen find Ernestine Hill in their kitbags: The Great Australian Loneliness / Anna Johnston -- 1944 Politics and policing: Post-war Reconstruction in Australia / Ross Gibson -- 1945 Canine 1: Bureaucracy O: The life and almost death of Horrie the Wog-Dog / Paul Genoni -- 1946 "And who the hell are you?": Dorothy Hewett's "Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod" / Maggie Nolan -- 1947 On love, war and literary life: The Newcastle Morning Herald serialises The Thorny Rose / Jill Roe -- 1948 Slumming it: Ruth Park's The Harp in the South / Paul Genoni -- 1949 Not suitable for children: Alfred Hitchcock films Helen Simpson's Australia / Tanya Dalziell -- 1950 When the Earth cries out: Telling workers' struggles / Stephen Knight -- 1951 Nuts on wine: Walter James and Australian wine writing / David Dunstan -- |
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Contents note continued: 1952 The all-singing, all-dancing bloke: The after-lives of C.J. Dennis' The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke / Philip Butterss -- 1953 Reading bareback: Mary E. Patchett's Ajax the Warrior / Anthony Eaton -- 1954 Surfing the yellow wave: Kenneth Mackay sights the first AIF / Peter Pierce -- 1955 Uncivil aviation: Biggles down under / Adam Nicol -- 1956 Poetry and confessing: Francis Webb, Vincent Buckley and the case of Cardinal Mindszenty / Andrew Lynch -- 1957 The Catcher in the Rye gets caught in the net Censorship and the Parliamentary Library / Nicole Moore -- 1957 Patrick White and the American middlebrow: Book-of-the-Month Club chooses Voss / Roger Osborne -- 1958 Beating around the bush: The Australian Legend and The Australian Tradition / Ian Henderson -- 1958 Coming down to Earth: Norma Hemming turns from SF to romance / Toby Burrows -- 1958 Stretching out in all directions: Patrick White and the great Australian emptiness / Brigid Rooney -- |
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Contents note continued: 1959 Loving Europe: Peel Me a Lotus and Australian women writing travel / Susan Carson -- 1961 Conversation, collaboration, assimilation: Nene Gare's The Fringe Dwellers / Simon Forrest -- 1962 Making a good nation: E.V. Timms' The Big Country / Catriona Elder -- 1962 Six pack: Volume one of A History of Australia is published / Mark McKenna -- 1963 Between the motion and the act: Nuclear literature after Maralinga / Rebecca Giggs -- 1964 Mary Poppins, film star: P.L. Travers and Walt Disney / Mark Klemens -- 1965 Putting the Asia in Australasia: Christopher Koch crosses the sea wall / Elaine Minor -- 1966 Laying ghosts as well as roads: Writing the cost of development / Kieran Dolin -- 1967 Scaling the rock: Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock / Catherine Padmore -- 1968 A Margaret Fulton recipe always works: An Australian kitchen classic / Sian Supski -- |
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Contents note continued: 1969 Australian journalist rocks New York: Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia / Per Henningsgaard -- 1970/1 Sensational sexualities: Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch and Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation / Frank Bongiorno -- 1971 A year in The Pram: Carlton kick starts an(other) Australian theatre renaissance / Donald Pulford -- 1972 Porno-politics: Frank Moorhouse's The Americans, Baby / Damien Barlow -- 1973 "Not while my cat's alive!": Randolph Stow accepts a fellowship from the Australia Council / Julienne van Loon -- 1974 Ned Kelly resurrected in song: Ned Kelly: Rock Opera / Lee-Von Kim -- 1975 Jerramungup dreaming: Ethel Hassell's My Dusky Friends is finally published / Kim Scott -- 1976 Grace abounding: Crawfords' The Sullivans / Jeff Doyle -- 1977 Behaving badly: The coming-of-age of a national cinema / Alice Healy-Ingram -- 1978 From Khe Sanh to the Caribbean: Cold Chisel's post-Vietnam blues / Mandy Treagus -- |
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Contents note continued: 1979 Generations of women poets: Sisters Publishing is established / Susan Sheridan -- 1980 Love and lust at Uluru: Romance fictions / Toni Johnson-Woods -- 1981 On and off the beach: Puberty Blues on film / Elizabeth McMahon -- 1982 Publishing in the Big Apple: Thomas Keneally's amazing American adventure / David Carter -- 1982 Pre-Mabo popular song: Icehouse releases "Great Southern Land" / Nicholas Birns -- 1983 The High Court decides: The Tasmanian Dams judgment / David Ritter -- 1984/5 The great tradition: A lilyin song from Cape Leveque / Stephen Muecke -- 1985 Temper democratic, bias offensively un-Australian: Marion Campbell's Lines of Flight / Susan Midalia -- 1985 Lost in the media: Evil Angels and late twentieth-century Australian true crime / Rosalind Smith -- 1986 Joining the dots: Paul Kelly sings about place / Nathanael O'Reilly -- 1987 Our cup runneth over: Life-stories from Fremantle go national / Per Henningsgaard -- |
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Contents note continued: 1988 Re-viewing history: Bicentennial fictions / Jo Jones -- 1989 The year the dragon came: Post-Tiananmen stories / Nicholas Jose -- 1990 "God let us be serious": The prayers of Michael Leunig / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth -- 1991 I don't give a fuck: The Vogel goes grunge / Neil Boyack -- 1992 Imagine: The Redfern speech / Carmen Lawrence -- 1993 Bad memories: Mary Lord's Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts / David McCooey -- 1994 "The world's Australian anthem": Matilda waltzes on / Angela Jones -- 1996 A rocky, downward slide: Horse Stories / Angela Jones -- 1997 Stolen stories returned: Bringing Them Home / Anne Surma -- 1998 Writers as public intellectuals: The Boyer Lectures / Elizabeth Webby -- 1999 "We the people of Australia": A constitution in search of a preamble / Anne Twomey -- 2000 Exhibiting Australia: Indigenous art at the Hermitage / Darren Jorgensen -- 2000 A short letter and a long march: Michael Long and the Stolen Generations / Sean Gorman -- |
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Contents note continued: 2002 One book, two books; one city, many cities: Brisbane reads together / Susan K. Martin -- 2003 Home and away: Shirley Hazzard and The Great Fire / Brigitta Olubas -- 2005 Slow Man overboard: J.M. Coetzee on Australian hospitality / Maria Takolander -- 2006 Silence speaks: Shaun Tan's The Arrival / Kate Douglas -- 2007 The musical Australia had to have: Keating! / Jack Teiwes -- 2008 Saying sorry: The Apology / Lyn McCredden -- 2008 Globalised fiction becomes a fact: Nam Le launches The Boat / Lachlan Brown -- 2009 Selling an Australian Cinderella: YouTube stories / Tama Leaver -- 2009 Your acting's like the end of the world: Michael Kantor directs Happy Days at the Malthouse / Andrew Fuhrmann -- 2010 Stamps of approval: Literary legends / Tanya Dalziell -- 2012 Grey skies over Melbourne: Grand Final Week 2012 / Paul Genoni |
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Machine generated contents note: 1935 Literary possibilities of flight: Bill Taylor's Pacific Flight / Christopher Lee -- 1936 From Texas to Tamworth via New Zealand: Tex Morton sings an Australian song / Graham Seal -- 1936 Portals to the New World: H.P. Lovecraft ventures to the Great Sandy Desert / Peter Pierce -- 1937 "This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped": Rex Ingamells kicks off the Jindyworobaks / Nicholas Birns -- 1938 The most literary yet: Man magazine / Victoria Kuttaine -- 1939 Bloodlines: Aileen Palmer's poetry of war and peace / Sylvia Martin -- 1939 Ringing out: "Five Bells" and its feedback loops / Bridie McCarthy -- 1940 Style, modernity and popular magazines: Writing Pacific travel / Victoria Kuttaine -- 1940 Unfounded attack on "Dad and Dave" comedies: Dad Rudd, M.P. / Julieanne Lamond -- 1941 Rowing on the radio: The Argonauts Club / Ian Saunders -- 1942 A fascinating kaleidoscope: Florence James and Dymphna Cusack's Come in Spinner / Kate Darian-Smith -- |
| Summary |
"Telling Stories" explores the interaction between literary culture and the public sphere in Australia, in a series of informative, witty, intelligent and thought-provoking essays |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Australian essays -- 21st century.
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Australian literature -- Social aspects.
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Australian literature -- 20th century.
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Australian literature -- 21st century.
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Essays -- 21st century.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature and society -- Australia -- History.
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Essays.
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Popular culture and literature -- Australia.
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| Author |
Dalziell, Tanya, 1973- editor of compilation
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Genoni, Paul, editor of compilation
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| ISBN |
1921867469 (paperback) |
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9781921867460 (paperback) |
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