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Issue has two main critical sections - Focus on Eleanor Dark and Focus on Younger Women - as well as creative writing.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Focus on Eleanor Dark : Introduction, single work criticism (p. 6-10)
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Waterway : The Multilayered City : History, Economics and Dream,
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criticism
Discusses the representation of contemporary Sydney and its harbour in Dark's novel Waterway. It argues that the novel sits poised between Dark's 'popular/modernist 1930s novels and her historical trilogy, between her more commercial early work ... and her growing commitment to social responsibility', and that it was written at a time when the writer was learning 'to look back at history to find answers for the present' (16).
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The Rational Natural : Conflicts of the Modern in Eleanor Dark,
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Discusses the treatment of female sexuality, reproduction, birth control, abortion and maternity in Dark's fiction. Focuses on the dilemma of the 'rational woman': a 'problematic created by modernity', the conflict between 'the authority of the natural ... and the searching eye of the modern rationalist epistemologies of science'. 'In attempting to provide access to the rationalism of science for her women characters, Dark's texts set up this contest between nature and science as an unresolved or even impossible dilemma haunted by the inevitable spectre of madness' (29).
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Surveillance and Slander : Eleanor Dark in the 1940s and 1950s,
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criticism
Discusses the way in which Dark negotiated the tensions of freedom versus control in her writing while she was subjected both to national surveillance and local right-wing intimidation in the 1940s and 1950s. Examines to what extend Dark's relationship with the security forces, and local political pressures, influenced her writing, and what Dark's experience tells us about the intellectual and cultural pressures of the period. Argues that the pressures assisted in steering Dark away from writing about contemporary issues, and made her retreat into the genre of the historical novel.
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'Every Woman a Mother' : Radical Intellectuals, Sex Reform and the 'Woman Question' in Australia, 1890-1918,
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criticism
'The purpose of this article is to explore the responses of a small number of male and female radicals to some of the ideas associated with the mainstream Australian women's movement int the period 1890-1918. It is not a comprehensive survey but, rather, a set of case studies that seeks to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the women's movement and other versions of political radicalism, especially the intersections of feminism, socialism and the broader impulse towards sex reform' (44).
- Balancing the Scales, single work (p. 65-66)
- 'A Writer with a Last Story to Write ...' : From an Unfinished Novel by Eleanor Dark, single work extract (p. 67-72)
- Almost Black, single work short story (p. 73-77)
- The Chiefi"Minestrone", single work poetry (p. 78)
- Rapunzel Rondoi"At home,", single work poetry (p. 78-82)
- Fisherwomani"Out of the ocean's welling", single work poetry (p. 82)
- What Was the Question?i"What are the questions the dunes ask", single work poetry (p. 83)
- Oysters and Pearls at Broomei"Green plastic are the chairs at Cafe Capri", single work poetry (p. 83)
- Waterlily Cafei"hanging round the waterlily", single work poetry (p. 84)
- Aunt Maddiei"It's not her face but her hands", single work poetry (p. 84-85)
- Left to Right, single work short story (p. 86-94)
- Clockwork Birdsi"Clouds bamboo-flute over hills,", single work poetry (p. 95)
- Maybe Medusai"Maybe Medusa", single work poetry (p. 96)
- Unconscious -v- Consciousnessi"speech is shrinking", single work poetry (p. 97-98)
- Evidencei"The evidence you see", single work poetry (p. 98)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Recent Publications
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 24 2001; (p. 190-214)
— Review of Island no. 86 Winter 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 163 Winter 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 164 Spring 2001 periodical issue ; An Accident in the Evening 2001 selected work poetry ; Hecate vol. 27 no. 1 2001 periodical issue ; Interior Despots : Running the Border 2001 anthology prose poetry drama criticism ; The God in the Ink 2001 single work novel ; Dying for Beauty : Short Stories 2001 selected work short story ; Letters and Characters 2001 selected work poetry ; Moorilla Mosaic : Contemporary Tasmanian Writing 2001 anthology poetry
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Recent Publications
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 24 2001; (p. 190-214)
— Review of Island no. 86 Winter 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 163 Winter 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 164 Spring 2001 periodical issue ; An Accident in the Evening 2001 selected work poetry ; Hecate vol. 27 no. 1 2001 periodical issue ; Interior Despots : Running the Border 2001 anthology prose poetry drama criticism ; The God in the Ink 2001 single work novel ; Dying for Beauty : Short Stories 2001 selected work short story ; Letters and Characters 2001 selected work poetry ; Moorilla Mosaic : Contemporary Tasmanian Writing 2001 anthology poetry
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