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- The Grey Horse, single work short story (p. 13-31)
- Kiss on the Lips, single work short story (p. 43-66)
- White Kid Gloves, single work short story (p. 69-94)
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The Cooboo,
single work
short story
Set on the wide plains of the Murndoo station, 'The Cooboo' is the story of Rose, a Wongana woman, mother, and stockwoman.
- Happiness, single work short story (p. 107-132)
- The Cow, single work short story (p. 135-149)
- The Cow, single work short story (p. 135-149)
- Two Men, single work short story (p. 153-168)
- The Dark Horse of Darran, single work short story (p. 171-188)
- An Encounter, single work short story (p. 191-203)
- Treason, single work short story (p. 207-216)
- Mrs Jinny's Shroud, single work short story (p. 219-263)
- The Swop, single work short story (p. 267-286)
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The Curse,
single work
short story
A menacing weed known as "the curse" begins to take over the hut of the strange and isolated Alf.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story : Literature and the Built Environment After 1900
London
:
Routledge
,
2024
27374606
2024
multi chapter work
criticism
'Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.
'West argues that the predominance of tropes of place within cultural and critical expressions of Australian post-colonialism should be re-balanced through attention to spatial strategies of anti-colonial power. To elaborate the raw material of such strategies, West develops interdisciplinary close readings of keynote stories within three, female-authored, pan-twentieth century, Australian short-story collections: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902); Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932); and, White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories by Merlinda Bobis (1999). The capacity of the short-story form to prompt creative and politically germinal engagements with species of space associated with architecture and buildings is underscored. Relatedly, West argues that the recent resurgence of binary thought—on local, national, and international scales—occasions an approach to the short-story collections shaped by binary relationships like a dichotomy of inside and outside. Concluding his argument, West connects the literary and architectural critiques of the story collections to the wicked problem, linked to ongoing colonial violences, of improving Australian Indigenous housing outcomes.
'Innovative and interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Literary, Architectural and Postcolonial Studies. .' (Publication summary)
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Two Women Novelists : Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard
1938
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Essays in Australian Fiction 1938; (p. 1-40) M. Barnard Eldershaw : Plaque with Laurel, Essays, Reviews and Correspondence 1995; (p. 195-220) 'An early version of this work was delivered as a lecture by Flora Eldershaw to the Australian English Association on 23 April 1931 and first printed in pamphlet form under the title Contemporary Australian Women Writers. It was later revised and expanded for publication in Essays in Australian Fiction (1938). (Editor's note, Plaque with Laurel: Essays ,Reviews and Correspondence. Ed. Maryanne Dever, 1995) Sections of the work also appeared as part of a series on Australian writers published in the Bulletin in 1937. -
Untitled
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: The Daily Mail , 30 April 1932; (p. 15)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story -
Some Australian Books
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 June vol. 4 no. 6 1932; (p. 91, 90)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story ; Henry Lawson 1931 single work biography ; Ginger Murdoch 1932 single work novel ; Green Mallee 1932 single work novel -
L. A. G. Strong Praises Book of Australian Stories
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 May vol. 4 no. 5 1932; (p. 71)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story
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L. A. G. Strong Praises Book of Australian Stories
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 May vol. 4 no. 5 1932; (p. 71)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story -
Some Australian Books
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 June vol. 4 no. 6 1932; (p. 91, 90)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story ; Henry Lawson 1931 single work biography ; Ginger Murdoch 1932 single work novel ; Green Mallee 1932 single work novel -
Untitled
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: The Daily Mail , 30 April 1932; (p. 15)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story -
Untitled
1931
single work
review
— Appears in: Northern Affairs , 7 August vol. 1 no. 4 1931; (p. 19)
— Review of Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories 1932 selected work short story ; Separate Lives 1931 selected work short story -
Australia's Literature
1931
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 October vol. 3 no. 10 1931; (p. 194-95)
— Review of Red Dust : An Australian Trooper in Palestine 1931 single work autobiography ; Walpurgis and Other Poems 1931 selected work poetry ; Read in a Fire 1931 selected work poetry In addition to the reviews, Palmer reports on the reaction to Australian Book Week in London, remarks on the emergence of collections of short stories and new books expected. -
Two Women Novelists : Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard
1938
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Essays in Australian Fiction 1938; (p. 1-40) M. Barnard Eldershaw : Plaque with Laurel, Essays, Reviews and Correspondence 1995; (p. 195-220) 'An early version of this work was delivered as a lecture by Flora Eldershaw to the Australian English Association on 23 April 1931 and first printed in pamphlet form under the title Contemporary Australian Women Writers. It was later revised and expanded for publication in Essays in Australian Fiction (1938). (Editor's note, Plaque with Laurel: Essays ,Reviews and Correspondence. Ed. Maryanne Dever, 1995) Sections of the work also appeared as part of a series on Australian writers published in the Bulletin in 1937. -
y
Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story : Literature and the Built Environment After 1900
London
:
Routledge
,
2024
27374606
2024
multi chapter work
criticism
'Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.
'West argues that the predominance of tropes of place within cultural and critical expressions of Australian post-colonialism should be re-balanced through attention to spatial strategies of anti-colonial power. To elaborate the raw material of such strategies, West develops interdisciplinary close readings of keynote stories within three, female-authored, pan-twentieth century, Australian short-story collections: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902); Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932); and, White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories by Merlinda Bobis (1999). The capacity of the short-story form to prompt creative and politically germinal engagements with species of space associated with architecture and buildings is underscored. Relatedly, West argues that the recent resurgence of binary thought—on local, national, and international scales—occasions an approach to the short-story collections shaped by binary relationships like a dichotomy of inside and outside. Concluding his argument, West connects the literary and architectural critiques of the story collections to the wicked problem, linked to ongoing colonial violences, of improving Australian Indigenous housing outcomes.
'Innovative and interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Literary, Architectural and Postcolonial Studies. .' (Publication summary)