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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend
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What’s Missing in This Picture? : The ‘Middle Parts of Fortune’ in Australian Great War Literature Clare Rhoden , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Philament : Borders, Regions, Worlds , August no. 16 2010; (p. 21-33)
'Disillusionment as a style of war fiction, with its characteristic debunking of old- fashioned glorious-war notions, owes its prominence more to the post-war, depression-oppressed mood of the 1930s than to the war's factual history. Soldier authors such as Sassoon, Graves and Aldington followed Remarque's popular All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) with their own reminiscences, part auto-biography, part imagination, and wholly literary. With an emphasis on the terrible conditions and the devastating experiences of sensitive individual protagonists, the disenchanted novels of the Great War canon expose war's futility and horror. The disenchantment perspective is generally summarised as the culpable sacrifice of idealistic young men by war-mongering politicians and profiteers. Its tropes are the Western Front trench, mud, shellshock, summary executions and the ruin of a generation. Although recent historical and literary analyses have demonstrated errors, exaggerations and misunderstandings in these clichés, popular memory still prefers disillusion. So indeed does current literary fiction set in the period.' (p. 2)
Recent Books: Digest of the Month's Reading 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , March vol. 2 no. 9 1948; (p. 467-470)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella ; The Lawsons Gwen Meredith , 1948 single work novel
Untitled 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Observer , 10 January 1948; (p. 287)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella
Frank Dalby Davison M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1938 single work criticism
— Appears in: Essays in Australian Fiction 1938; (p. 41-80)
Australian Writers : 3 : Frank Dalby Davison M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1937 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 November vol. 58 no. 3013 1937; (p. 50)
Recent Books: Digest of the Month's Reading 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , March vol. 2 no. 9 1948; (p. 467-470)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella ; The Lawsons Gwen Meredith , 1948 single work novel
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 July vol. 5 no. 7 1933; (p. 101-102)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella ; Earth Kindred James Devaney , 1931 selected work poetry ; Lost Dale Collins , 1933 single work novel ; Stories by 'Kodak' Kodak , 1933 selected work short story
Australian Authors Praised in England 1933 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 October vol. 5 no. 10 1933; (p. 161)

— Review of Money Street John K. Ewers , 1933 single work novel ; The Secret Service Girl J. M. Walsh , 1933 single work novel ; The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella
Reprints of three reviews attributed to the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement.
The Wells of Beersheba Cyril Falls , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 29 June no. 1639 1933; (p. 543)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella
Untitled Freda Barrymore , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 27 May 1933; (p. 10)

— Review of The Wells of Beersheba : A Light Horse Legend Frank Dalby Davison , 1933 single work novella
What’s Missing in This Picture? : The ‘Middle Parts of Fortune’ in Australian Great War Literature Clare Rhoden , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Philament : Borders, Regions, Worlds , August no. 16 2010; (p. 21-33)
'Disillusionment as a style of war fiction, with its characteristic debunking of old- fashioned glorious-war notions, owes its prominence more to the post-war, depression-oppressed mood of the 1930s than to the war's factual history. Soldier authors such as Sassoon, Graves and Aldington followed Remarque's popular All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) with their own reminiscences, part auto-biography, part imagination, and wholly literary. With an emphasis on the terrible conditions and the devastating experiences of sensitive individual protagonists, the disenchanted novels of the Great War canon expose war's futility and horror. The disenchantment perspective is generally summarised as the culpable sacrifice of idealistic young men by war-mongering politicians and profiteers. Its tropes are the Western Front trench, mud, shellshock, summary executions and the ruin of a generation. Although recent historical and literary analyses have demonstrated errors, exaggerations and misunderstandings in these clichés, popular memory still prefers disillusion. So indeed does current literary fiction set in the period.' (p. 2)
Australian Writers : 3 : Frank Dalby Davison M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1937 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 November vol. 58 no. 3013 1937; (p. 50)
Frank Dalby Davison M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1938 single work criticism
— Appears in: Essays in Australian Fiction 1938; (p. 41-80)
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