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Issue Details:
First known date:
2012...
vol.
4
no.
2
May
2012
of
Transnational Literature
est. 2008
Transnational Literature
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* Contents derived from the 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Transcultural Writers and Transcultural Literature in the Age of Global Modernity, single work criticism
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Male Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? Guys, Guises and Disguise in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair,
single work
criticism
'The Twyborn Affair (1979) critically confronts the politics of sex while revealing the author's private inner world. Patrick White's last novel but one adumbrates the representation of traditionally invisible alternative models of sexuality in literature which, according to Robert Dessaix, have been given topicality in the 1980s and 1990s due to a loosening of sexual repression. The themes of homosexuality and transvestism which White tackled earlier in his fiction are now the cynosure of all eyes and fused with identity concerns, even though the author did not intend his novel to be a piece of queer activism.
The Twyborn Affair is quintessentially a social comedy verging on the comedy of errors in which the traditional gendered dichotomy is subverted in order to blur clear-cut distinctions between what is meant to be masculine and feminine. This essay will explore the themes of literary representation, psychology, seduction, gender deconstruction, sexual identity and the politics of ambiguity in relation to male beauty in the novel.' (Author's introduction) -
Reflections Apropos of Two Australian Books on Shakespeare,
single work
review
— Review of Ours As We Play It : Australia Plays Shakespeare 2011 single work criticism ; The King and I 2011 single work autobiography ; -
Reading Asia : Musings of a Peripatetic Writer,
single work
criticism
Notes for a paper delivered at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Teaching English (ATTE) on the theme ‘Finding a Place for Falstaff’, Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 2011
- Tributes to Professor Bruce Bennett From Members of the Transnational Literature Boards, single work obituary
- Stephen Lawrence : South Australian Poet, single work obituary
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Farewell to Associate Professor Richard Hosking, 27 April 2012,
single work
obituary
Transcript of Address by PhD Candidate Adrian Thurnwald
- Fireworksi"A posy of damp squibs, a bucket brimful", single work poetry
- Operatic Ariai"Soprano, carrot cake. Tenor, Irish Moss,", single work poetry
- Satellite Radari"Has anyone seen the latest surface chart?", single work poetry
- Belladonnai"No Morning Glory, Everlasting Daisy, no", single work poetry
- Ameliai"Heart of Earth, misplaced, restored to earth,", single work poetry
- Final Optionsi"(Invertebrates) Portuguese Man O’War, Box", single work poetry
- The Impossibility of Flight, sequence poetry
- 100 Wordsi"Randomly tuning in somewhere outside", single work poetry
- Down Memory Lanei"a green shirt:", single work poetry
- Adam’s Apple - An Old Story Re-toldi"They hit the deck at the same time,", single work poetry
- Door Keepingi"a door", single work poetry
- Lover Canceri"Pray for poor father,", single work poetry
- In Memoriam : Professor Md Enamul Hoquei"It’s time to listen not to the noises", single work poetry
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