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Notes
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The first edition was a part of the Portable Australian Authors series, which in 1992 became the UQP Australian Authors series. The third and fourth editions are not a part of a series.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s : Introduction,
single work
criticism
(p. xi-xxiv)
Note: Includes Postscript 1984-1990.
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The Union Buries Its Dead,
single work
short story
humour
Describes a bush funeral.
- 'Water Them Geraniums', single work short story (p. 5-29)
- The Grown-Up Ball 'And Women Must Weep', single work short story (p. 37-42)
- Happiness, single work short story (p. 43-55)
- The Triskelion, single work short story (p. 56-69)
- Short-Shift Saturday, single work short story (p. 70-99)
- Josie, single work short story (p. 100-103)
- Trees Can Speak, single work short story (p. 104-108)
- The Persimmon Tree, single work short story (p. 109-112)
- Mother, single work short story (p. 113-125)
- The Incense-Burner, single work short story (p. 126-137)
- Shadow, single work short story (p. 138-143)
- A Double Because it's Snowing, single work short story (p. 144-152)
- Down at the Dump, single work short story satire (p. 153-180)
- The Mateship Syndrome, single work short story (p. 181-189)
- The Unicorn, single work short story (p. 190-193)
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Crabs,
single work
short story
satire
science fiction
'Crabs is very neat in everything he does. His movements are almost fussy, but he has so much fight in his delicate frame that they're not fussy at all. Lately he has been eating. When Frank eats one steak, Crab eats two. When Frank has a pint of mil, Crabs drinks two. He spends a lot of time lying on his bed, groaning, because of the food. But he's building up. At night he runs five miles to Clayton. He always means to run back, but he always ends up on the train, hot and sweating and sticking to the seat. His aim is to increase his weight and get a job driving for Allied Panel and Towing. Already he has his licence but he's too small, not tough enough to beat off the competition at a crash scene.' (Introduction)
- Ore, single work short story (p. 207-213)
- The Airport, the Pizzeria, the Motel, the Rented Car, and the Mysteries of Life, single work short story (p. 214-221)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories : Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and Sargeson
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Time and the Short Story 2012; (p. 105-118) 'The short story in Australia and New Zealand has flourished from the last decade of the nineteenth century onwards, and has been strictly bound to orality - yarns, yarn-spinning (Bennet 5) - from its early days, as the speech cadence of a usually sympathetic storyteller, either involved in the narrative, or simply an eye-witness or a bystander, interacting with listeners / readers, influences its time-scale, rhythm, tempo and structure.
A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)
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Short Story Anthologies and 'the Solid Body of Australian Fiction'
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 3 2000; (p. 279-294) -
A Feast of Australian, NZ Stories
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 January 1998; (p. 24)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , July no. 8 1994; (p. 126-128)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
Australian Short Fiction
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 46 / 47 1993; (p. 295-296)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story
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Short Fiction in Australia
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1992; (p. 119-120)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , July no. 8 1994; (p. 126-128)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
A Feast of Australian, NZ Stories
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 January 1998; (p. 24)
— Review of The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
[Review] The Impersonators
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 19 June 1987; (p. 668)
— Review of The Impersonators 1980 single work novel ; Missus 1985 single work novel ; The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story ; Transgressions : Australian Writing Now 1986 anthology short story ; A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories 1986 selected work short story ; This Freedom 1985 selected work short story -
A National Pastime : Short Stories Breeding in the Closet
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 80 1986; (p. 15-17)
— Review of Transgressions : Australian Writing Now 1986 anthology short story ; The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 anthology short story -
Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories : Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and Sargeson
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Time and the Short Story 2012; (p. 105-118) 'The short story in Australia and New Zealand has flourished from the last decade of the nineteenth century onwards, and has been strictly bound to orality - yarns, yarn-spinning (Bennet 5) - from its early days, as the speech cadence of a usually sympathetic storyteller, either involved in the narrative, or simply an eye-witness or a bystander, interacting with listeners / readers, influences its time-scale, rhythm, tempo and structure.
A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)
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Short Story Anthologies in Australia
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 4 no. 1 1990; (p. 19-22) -
Short Story Anthologies and 'the Solid Body of Australian Fiction'
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 3 2000; (p. 279-294)
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