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- Framing the Question : "What is Australian Poetry?", single work criticism (p. 1-5, notes 209-210)
- The Absence of Romanticism, single work criticism (p. 8-23, notes 210-215)
- Poetic Origins and Negativity, single work criticism (p. 24-46, notes 215-219)
- Charles Harpur and the Myth of Origins, single work criticism (p. 48-64, notes 220-222)
- Henry Kendall's Negations, single work criticism (p. 65-77, notes 222-224)
- Brennan and Poetic Power, single work criticism (p. 78-94, notes 224-226)
- Nihilism in Kenneth Slessor, single work criticism (p. 96-118, notes 226-229)
- A. D. Hope and Romantic Displacement, single work criticism (p. 119-140, notes 229-231)
- "Ern Malley" : The Mystic and the Demystified, single work criticism (p. 141-153, notes 231-233)
- Judith Wright and Silence, single work criticism (p. 156-169, notes 233-235)
- Gwen Harwood and Capable Negativity, single work criticism (p. 170-184, notes 235-237)
- Les Murray and Poetry's Otherworld, single work criticism (p. 185-202, notes 237-239)
- The Negative Strain in Australian Romanticism, single work criticism (p. 203-208, notes 239-240)
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Another Dimension : Sweeney Reed's Visual Poetics
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 195-208)'The Heide Museum's 2011 exhibition Born to Concrete offered a rare opportunity to survey the history of visual poetry—a "hybrid genre … in which linguistic structures support pictorial structures and vice versa"—in Australia from the late 1960s onward (Bohn 100). It included a range of mixed and multimedia pieces, including typewritten texts, collages, prints, sculptures, and found objects, and it featured such figures as Ruth Cowen, Aleks Danko, Jas H. Duke, Peter Murphy, ΠO, Alan Riddell, Alex Selenitsch, and Richard Tipping.' (Introduction)
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‘Deep Hanging Out’ : Native Species Images and Affective Labour
2017
single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper investigates the affective labour done by, specifically, native species images in Australian poetry, using Judith Wright's bird poems, and various poems about kangaroos as example. It uses the anthropological term, "deep hanging out", borrowed from an article about fashion models, to extend the idea of affective labour, and to measure poems' attentions to birds and animals, and their relation to iconising as the work of nationalism. It is concerned with cultural capital, and Canberra, and the human empire.' (Publication abstract)
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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
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The Immortal Malley and the End of Modernity
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 34 no. 2010; 'An antipodean manifestation of the anti-modern tradition “Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.” With these words Peter Carey’s character in My Life as a Fake identifies the fundamental factor behind the bizarre aftermath of a literary hoax, namely: particularity of setting. Just as Bob McCorkle, fraudulent creation of Christopher Chubb, comes to life in Carey’s novel to wreak havoc and anguish upon his creator, so too did Ern Malley step out of the imagination of James McAuley and Harold Stewart into Australia of the 1940s, to forge his own place as an almost-person in the history of Australian literature.' -
Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Limits of Green Romanticism
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , March vol. 45 no. 1 2009; (p. 3-14) This essay assesses the emerging alliance between postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism in the light of continuing debates on 'Green Romanticism'. It considers what is at stake in contending positions within this debate, what contributions postcolonial writers and thinkers have made to it, and what some of the implications might be of bringing postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism together, both for the reassessment of Romantic ecological legacies and for the 'greening' of postcolonial thought. -- Author's abstract
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Addressing Absence
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1-2 1995; (p. 133-137)
— Review of Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity 1996 multi chapter work criticism -
[Review] Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 107-110)
— Review of Bridgings : Readings in Australian Women's Poetry 1996 anthology poetry criticism extract ; Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity 1996 multi chapter work criticism -
Why Read Australian Poetry?
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , Autumn vol. 57 no. 1 1997; (p. 179-190)
— Review of The Totem Ship 1996 selected work autobiography criticism biography review prose ; Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity 1996 multi chapter work criticism ; The Angry Penguin : Selected Poems of Max Harris 1996 selected work poetry -
Paul Kane on Australian Poetry
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 178 1996; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity 1996 multi chapter work criticism -
Poetry Down Under
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 June 1996; (p. 9)
— Review of Australian Poetry : Romanticism and Negativity 1996 multi chapter work criticism -
Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Limits of Green Romanticism
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , March vol. 45 no. 1 2009; (p. 3-14) This essay assesses the emerging alliance between postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism in the light of continuing debates on 'Green Romanticism'. It considers what is at stake in contending positions within this debate, what contributions postcolonial writers and thinkers have made to it, and what some of the implications might be of bringing postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism together, both for the reassessment of Romantic ecological legacies and for the 'greening' of postcolonial thought. -- Author's abstract -
The Immortal Malley and the End of Modernity
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 34 no. 2010; 'An antipodean manifestation of the anti-modern tradition “Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.” With these words Peter Carey’s character in My Life as a Fake identifies the fundamental factor behind the bizarre aftermath of a literary hoax, namely: particularity of setting. Just as Bob McCorkle, fraudulent creation of Christopher Chubb, comes to life in Carey’s novel to wreak havoc and anguish upon his creator, so too did Ern Malley step out of the imagination of James McAuley and Harold Stewart into Australia of the 1940s, to forge his own place as an almost-person in the history of Australian literature.' -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
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Romanticism's 'Cultural' and 'Literal Bombs' in 'Our Luggage'
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Counterbalancing Light : Essays on the Poetry of Les Murray 1997; (p. 108-122) -
‘Deep Hanging Out’ : Native Species Images and Affective Labour
2017
single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper investigates the affective labour done by, specifically, native species images in Australian poetry, using Judith Wright's bird poems, and various poems about kangaroos as example. It uses the anthropological term, "deep hanging out", borrowed from an article about fashion models, to extend the idea of affective labour, and to measure poems' attentions to birds and animals, and their relation to iconising as the work of nationalism. It is concerned with cultural capital, and Canberra, and the human empire.' (Publication abstract)