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Whatever Happened to Coppelius? Antecedents and Design in Christina Stead’s The Salzburg Tales
Australian Literature Antecedents Design The Salzburg Tales
2008/10/22
No work of Christina Stead’s has divided commentary more than The Salzburg
Tales. Contemporary reviews were overwhelmingly positive, with the Times Literary
Supplement saluting it as evidence of a “...
Christina Stead’s Last Book: The Novel and the Best-Seller
Australian Literature Last Book Novel the Best-Seller
2008/10/22
It is an intriguing feature of Christina Stead’s novels that her protagonists often
produce literary works that are consonant with their character and talents. This is
especially notable with her wo...
Crossing the Rubicon: Abjection and Revolution in Christina Stead’s I’m Dying Laughing
Australian Literature Dying Laughing Christina Stead's
2008/10/22
When Stalin died in 1953, Christina Stead wrote to her brother Gilbert about
the great event, “so strange and so close to millions!” She remarked that, though
to some Stalin was an “anti-Christ,” “t...
Christina Stead and the Synecdochic Scam: The Little Hotel
Australian Literature Christina Stead Synecdochic Scam Little Hotel
2008/10/22
In this essay celebrating Christina Stead’s Centenary, I first review American Stead
scholarship, as I’ve personally participated in it, before performing a close reading
of The Little Hotel.1 My ar...
Christina Stead would have turned 100 on 17 July 2002. It is idle—but
irresistible—to speculate what kind of occasion Christina might have preferred to
celebrate her centenary. Though her husband, ...
'Art is the Windowpane': Novels of Australian Women and Modernism in Inter-war Europe
Art Inter-war Europe Modernism Australian Literature Australian Women
2008/10/20
During the 1990s there was a growing interest in the role played by women in the
development of Australian modernist art. Books by Caroline Ambrus, Australian
Women Artists: First Fleet to 1945 (1...
Words of Water: Reading Otherness in Tourmaline and Oyster
Australian Literature Reading Otherness Words of Water
2008/10/20
In the long run, foreigners are all much the same. They are not us.
Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster
“White” Australian identity has to a large extent been determined historically by
what “we” are...
Windshuttling The Right: Some Australian Literary and Historical Adaptations for the Stage
Australian Literature Historical Adaptations Windshuttling The Right
2008/10/20
For the purposes of this discussion I am going to take liberties with the idea of
“adaptation” and extend it beyond the primary meaning of a literary work rewritten
for presentation in a different m...
Multiculturalism, Globalisation and Worldliness: Origin and Destination of the Text
Australian Literature Globalisation Multiculturalism Worldliness
2008/10/20
“Everywhere is so made up of everywhere else.” (Iyer 11)
“The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.” (Arundhati Roy, qtd
in Barsamian)
I leave my shoes at the shoemaker’s for repair. As I give m...
Label and Literature: Borders and Spaces in Postcolonial Migrant Literature in Australia
Australian Literature Label and Literature Postcolonial Migrant Litera Borders and Spaces
2008/10/20
In the novel The Ganges and Its Tributaries by Christopher Cyrill the main character
Christopher recalls a model of India. His father had carefully constructed the
model shortly after his migratio...
Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper’s A Child’s Book of True Crime
Australian Literature A Child's Book Disorienting Horizons True Crime
2008/10/20
Chloe Hooper’s novel A Child’s Book of True Crime powerfully responds to the
expressions of non-indigenous disconcertion over the devastation caused to indigenous
people and their environments throu...
The Wood from the Trees: Taxonomy and the Eucalypt as the New National Hero in Recent Australian Writing
Australian Literature Recent Australian Writing New National Hero
2008/10/20
A number of recent successful Australian narratives have revealed a striking fixation
with trees, especially indigenous trees, and particularly the eucalypt. Most
obviously in Murray Bail’s Eucalypt...
Elizabeth Jolley, Mr Berrington and the Resistance to Monogamy
Australian Literature Elizabeth Jolley
2008/10/20
“Only connect . . .”
E. M. Forster, Howard’s End (epigraph)
To give a truthful account [. . .] is beyond the powers of the biographer
or the historian. [. . .] Fiction is truer than fact.
Virgini...
Fakes, Literary Identity and Public Culture
Australian Literature Fakes Literary Identity Public Culture
2008/10/20
The fake presupposes the genuine. The fake author implies the real author, and
fake literature presupposes real literature. But literature itself is often about—
perhaps fundamentally about—successf...
Sex, Soap and Sainthood: Beginning to Theorise Literary Celebrity
Australian Literature Sex Soap Sainthood
2008/10/20
For over two weeks now my newspaper (broadsheet, Fairfax-owned) has been carrying
daily instalments of the latest sex scandal surrounding soccer super-star David
Beckham: revelations of affairs with...