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'A Nation for a Continent' : Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 141-154, 254) 'During the Federation era, the isomorphic association of literature, land, and nation found expression through the cartographic imaginary, a term that is meant to focus especially on the role of maps in shaping imagined geographies, but which also includes related media such as topographical engravings and photographic views. Contrary to Paul Giles's implication of an achieved "national period" in American literary history, however, Dixon argues that in Australia during the Federation era, the cartographic imaginary expressed an alignment of literature, land, and nation that was more wished for than achieved. He claims that the literature of the Federation period-in particular, the sketches and stories of Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (1896) and Joseph Furphy's novel Such is Life (1903)–reveals the uncertainties and the sense of incompletion that attend the cartographic imaginary.' (Publication abstract)
Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History Robert Dixon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 12-17) Argues that the trope of place has been used in Australian literary criticism either to connect particular writers and their work with the idea of a national project and a national canon, or to exclude them from it.
Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays : Introduction Vivian Smith , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays 1988; (p. xi-xiii)
Provincial to International : Southwest Pacific Literature in English Since the 1920's Joseph Jones , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands Since the First World War 1979; (p. 125-147) ‘To writer and reader alike, the prospects for indigenous literature in the Southwest Pacific just after the First World War could not have appeared very roseate. Following a cultural resurgence in both Australia and New Zealand during the 1890s, hopes had dwindled during wartime, and new strength ready to take over was in short supply. ‘Colonial’ writing was in fact for the most part still just that, despite a large measure of political self-determination already achieved, ans was to remain colonial for some time to come. No single poet, novelist, or playwright of undoubted stature could be counted on either side of the Tasman Sea. There were no local literary reviews or other such journals; newspapers took note of whatever might occasionally venture into print, continuing to serve this function so faithfully that some of them are still sources of respectable criticism. As a result of assignments falling to the lot of the Anzacs during the First World War, a catastrophically high percentage of the best young men were sacrificed in the costly attempt upon Gallipoli and in the scarcely less savage campaigns on the Western Front. What incipient authorship there was among them, never to develop, cannot be known, but it is not unreasonable to surmise that the scarcity and mediocrity of literary production in the 1920s must have been related to so much slaughter of talent among the generation that otherwise would have survived to be given its chance.’(Author’s introduction)
The Prose of Nettie Palmer Esther Levy , 1959 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , July vol. 18 no. 2 1959; (p. 231-236)
Untitled 1924 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian , 26 July vol. 117 no. 3043 1924; (p. 222)
— Review of Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism
Untitled 1924 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 6 August 1924; (p. 18)
— Review of Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism
Australian Writers 1924 single work review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 9 August 1924; (p. 18)
— Review of Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism
Untitled 1937 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 20 February 1937; (p. 117)
— Review of Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism
Twelve Australian Books That Should Be in Every Australian Home Mary Gilmore , George Mackaness , Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 November vol. 9 no. 11 1937; (p. 172)
— Review of The Singing Gold Dorothy Cottrell , 1927 single work novel ; Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch Brian Penton , 1934 single work novel ; Confessions of a Beachcomber E. J. Banfield , 1908 extract autobiography ; The Sentimental Bloke : The Play C. J. Dennis , 1914 single work poetry ; Songs of a Campaign Leon Gellert , 1917 selected work poetry ; Heart of Spring John Shaw Neilson , 1919 selected work poetry ; Satyrs and Sunlight : Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae Hugh McCrae , 1928 selected work poetry ; His Natural Life Marcus Clarke , 1870-1872 single work novel ; The Pearl and the Octopus, and Other Exercises in Prose and Verse Alfred George Stephens , 1911 selected work short story poetry ; Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , 1897 single work novel ; Flynn of the Inland Ion L. Idriess , 1932 single work biography ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , 1917 single work novel ; Man-Shy Frank Dalby Davison , 1934 extract novel ; We of the Never-Never Mrs Aeneas Gunn , 1908 single work novel ; Speaking Personally Walter Murdoch , 1930 selected work essay ; Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; The Wide Brown Land : A New Anthology of Australian Verse 1934 anthology poetry ; The Magic Pudding Second Slice : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay , 1971 extract children's fiction ; Separate Lives Vance Palmer , 1931 selected work short story ; Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism
Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History Robert Dixon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 12-17) Argues that the trope of place has been used in Australian literary criticism either to connect particular writers and their work with the idea of a national project and a national canon, or to exclude them from it.
Provincial to International : Southwest Pacific Literature in English Since the 1920's Joseph Jones , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands Since the First World War 1979; (p. 125-147) ‘To writer and reader alike, the prospects for indigenous literature in the Southwest Pacific just after the First World War could not have appeared very roseate. Following a cultural resurgence in both Australia and New Zealand during the 1890s, hopes had dwindled during wartime, and new strength ready to take over was in short supply. ‘Colonial’ writing was in fact for the most part still just that, despite a large measure of political self-determination already achieved, ans was to remain colonial for some time to come. No single poet, novelist, or playwright of undoubted stature could be counted on either side of the Tasman Sea. There were no local literary reviews or other such journals; newspapers took note of whatever might occasionally venture into print, continuing to serve this function so faithfully that some of them are still sources of respectable criticism. As a result of assignments falling to the lot of the Anzacs during the First World War, a catastrophically high percentage of the best young men were sacrificed in the costly attempt upon Gallipoli and in the scarcely less savage campaigns on the Western Front. What incipient authorship there was among them, never to develop, cannot be known, but it is not unreasonable to surmise that the scarcity and mediocrity of literary production in the 1920s must have been related to so much slaughter of talent among the generation that otherwise would have survived to be given its chance.’(Author’s introduction)
The Prose of Nettie Palmer Esther Levy , 1959 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , July vol. 18 no. 2 1959; (p. 231-236)
Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays : Introduction Vivian Smith , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays 1988; (p. xi-xiii)
'A Nation for a Continent' : Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 141-154, 254) 'During the Federation era, the isomorphic association of literature, land, and nation found expression through the cartographic imaginary, a term that is meant to focus especially on the role of maps in shaping imagined geographies, but which also includes related media such as topographical engravings and photographic views. Contrary to Paul Giles's implication of an achieved "national period" in American literary history, however, Dixon argues that in Australia during the Federation era, the cartographic imaginary expressed an alignment of literature, land, and nation that was more wished for than achieved. He claims that the literature of the Federation period-in particular, the sketches and stories of Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (1896) and Joseph Furphy's novel Such is Life (1903)–reveals the uncertainties and the sense of incompletion that attend the cartographic imaginary.' (Publication abstract)
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