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Focuses on McAuley as a 'political ideologist and cold war warrior' rather than as a poet and critic and concentrates on his involvement, during the war, with A. A. Conlon's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs and, post-war, with the Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom and the journal Quadrant. Attempts to explain two important forces in McAuley's life - his religious conversion and his passionate opposition to communism - in terms of a profound belief in the devil . Attributes the former to his encounter, in New Guinea, with Catholic Archbishop Alain de Boismenu, whose story of the nun and mystic Marie-Therese Noblet , believed to be possessed by the devil., made a profound impact on McAuley. Views his political stance as that of a Catholic convert who projected 'his own deep personal torment onto the Devil and Communist agents in the service of the Devil'. (Dust-jacket)
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Misapprehending McAuley
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— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
Australian Biography and Autobiography
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179) Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony. -
The Tenacity of the Liberal Intellectuals
2010
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— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 54 no. 9 2010; (p. 8-11) -
[Review] The Devil and James McAuley
2002
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review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 197-198) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
Entangled Worlds : Australia and its Contexts in Recent Non-fiction
2001
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review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 46 no. 2001; (p. 17-32)
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism ; Prosthetic Gods : Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance 2001 selected work criticism ; Damaged Men : The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart 2001 single work criticism biography ; The Colonial Earth 2000 single work non-fiction ; Hearts and Minds : Creative Australians and the Environment 2000 single work criticism ; The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature 2000 anthology criticism ; The Oxford Literary History of Australia 1998 anthology criticism ; Investigations in Australian Literature 2000 selected work criticism ; Authority and Influence : Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 2001 anthology criticism extract ; Woman and Herself : A Critical Study of the Works of Barbara Hanrahan 1998 single work criticism ; Studies of Indeterminacy in the Australian Novel 1999 single work criticism ; The Shapes of Glory : The Writings of Peter Steele 2000 single work criticism ; Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry 1999 anthology criticism essay ; The Postcolonial Exotic : Marketing the Margins 2001 multi chapter work ; Forrest, 1847-1918. 1847-91, Apprenticeship to Premiership 1971 single work biography ; Anxious Nation : Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939 1999 single work ; Caged : The Landau Manuscript 1999 single work autobiography ; Finding Theodore and Brina 2001 single work novel ; Remarkable Occurrences : The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901-2001 2001 anthology criticism ; The Boyer Collection : Highlights of the Boyer Lectures : 1959-2000 2001 anthology extract criticism ; Fairly Obsessive : Essays on the Works of John Kinsella 2000 anthology criticism
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[Review] The Devil and James McAuley
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 197-198) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
A Tormented Soul
1999
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 213 1999; (p. 5-6)
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
An Embarrassment
1999
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 191 1999; (p. 30)
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
Better the Devil You Know
1999
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 July 1999; (p. 11)
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
Dysfunctional Exorcism
1999
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review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , July vol. 4 no. 6 1999; (p. 5-6)
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism -
The Tenacity of the Liberal Intellectuals
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 54 no. 9 2010; (p. 8-11) -
Australian Biography and Autobiography
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179) Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony. -
What the Devil Got into Dr Pybus? : Email from A.D. Hope to James McAuley : stpeters@heavensgate.org.etern (with Apologies to A.D. Hope)
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"I'm doing time down here, mate,",
1999
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— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 43 no. 11 1999; (p. 84) -
Ballade of Lost Phrases
1999
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— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 1999 1999; (p. 391-399) The Last Intellectuals : Essays on Writers and Politics 2010; (p. 128-139) -
A Life Lived in Personal Conflict
1999
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criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 25 July 1999; (p. 18)
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Subjects:
- Writer's craft
- Writer's inspiration
- Poetic techniques
- Literary career
- Nightmares
- Sexuality & sexual identity
- Divided self
- Australian literature and writers
- Ern Malley Hoax
- Australian politics
- Democratic Labor Party (DLP)
- Australian Labor Party (ALP)
- Communism
- Roman Catholicism
- Vietnam War
- Cold War
- Governors & vice royalty
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
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