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Frances Devlin-Glass Frances Devlin-Glass i(A21896 works by) (birth name: Frances Maree Devlin)
Also writes as: F. D. Glass
Born: Established: 1948 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Helen Vines. Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers. Frances Devlin-Glass , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 22 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Eve Langley and 'The Pea Pickers' Helen Vines , 2021 single work biography
'Helen Vines’s Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers attempts more than its title suggests: it is both literary biography, and a literary critical exercise, aiming to separate the life from the fiction but inevitably seeing the interrelationships. However, because Langley writes fictionalised autobiography (no-one disputes this), Helen Vines sifts the known facts judiciously in chapters 1–5, but in chapter 6, she writes (explicitly) speculatively, drawing on a small repertoire of five clinical texts and articles and the opinion of an unnamed clinical psychologist, for some of her insights. This small body of texts and articles dates from the 1980s.' 

(Introduction)

1 Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature : Challenges and Conundrums Frances Devlin-Glass , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 36 no. 2 2021;

'What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify which Australian writers might be included. It does so while questioning how such a taxonomy could be constructed and how research on this under-explored area might proceed. Not only is the potential field large and amorphous, but it also presents formidable issues of ‘identity politics’. Because such study is performed in an era when identities are understood to be unstable and discontinuous, the article argues for an inclusive approach, noting that what constitutes ‘Irishness’ is internally contested. It asks questions about how émigré writers and their descendants and those who draw on the political and historical matter of Ireland have transformed such legacies. It also considers how those few writers who made the reverse journey engage with Irish literature and culture. The article speculates that such a study may potentially reconfigure understanding of the Australian literary tradition and the process of naturalising ‘the nation’, or at least complicate that narrative.'

Source: Abstract.

1 Paul Sharrad : Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine. Frances Devlin-Glass , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

— Review of Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine Paul Sharrad , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'This is a most unusual literary study in that, offering more than textual analysis (in which it also engages), it maps the trajectory of Thomas Keneally’s career successes, and his very strange eclipse in the Australian literary firmament. It asks a very uncomfortable central question: how possible is it in Australia to earn a living as a literary novelist, and is it feasible, without a solid capital base, to gain a wide enough readership to survive as a professional writer? The answer is a qualified yes. A lot of subsidiary questions flow from each of these and they lead the author to some less than flattering insights into the way in which the Australian literature machine has operated and probably still does, and suggests its parochial nature.' (Introduction)
1 1 Lynda Ng (ed.), Indigenous Transnationalism: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria Frances Devlin-Glass , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 193-198)

— Review of Indigenous Transnationalism : Essays on Carpentaria 2017 anthology criticism
1 Centaurs, Bushmen and Fictitious Regnal Years : Serendipity in Annotating Furphy Frances Devlin-Glass , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 1 2013;
1 Furphy as (Metafictive) Aboriginal Ethnographer Frances Devlin-Glass , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 1 2013;

'This paper investigates Furphy’s ethnographical writings on Aborigines in the short essays and paragraphs he wrote for the Bulletin and in one of his short stories. It also examines his representation of Toby', an  'Aboriginal stockman in Such is Life, and concludes by examining one of the most difficult passages in a colonial era novel, his account of a Palmer River Aboriginal attack, cannibalism, and settler murder in The Buln-buln and the Brolga. These Aboriginal-focused narratives are told as part of a suite of realistic tales by Barefooted Bob and Tom Collins, by way of counter-narrative to Fred Falkland Pritchard’s fantastical romance/action tales which belong to the ripping yarns/Boy’s Own tradition. The paper argues that, although the narrative method, in its refusal to editorialise, is uncharacteristically and unnervingly oblique, there is more than a little of Lilian Pritchard, the Lady Novelist, in Furphy himself and that the questions he puts into the mouth of the Lady Journalist about Aboriginal culture are probing and pungent.' (Author's abstract)

1 Jocoserious ‘Ignorance Shifting’ or ‘Aestho-Psycho-Eugenics’? : Interrogating Joseph Furphy’s Bulletin ‘Apprenticeship’ Frances Devlin-Glass , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 1 2013;
'Annotating Joseph Furphy’s first publication for the Bulletin raises some intriguing questions: to what extent was Furphy the product of the Bulletin writing academy, the late nineteenth century equivalent of a writing course, or to what extent was his talent sui generis? I intend to put this question to an extreme test, by reading closely his first published contribution to the Bulletin in 1889, ‘The Mythical Sundowner’.' (Author's abstract)
1 Furphy Centenary Frances Devlin-Glass , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Tintean , March no. 19 2012; (p. 37)
1 'The Myth of Settlement' : Grey Nomads, Papunya Tula and Frontier Violence in Pat Jacobs' Going Inland Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 141-152)
1 Imperilled Songlines Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Tintean : The Australian Irish Heritage Network , December vol. 14 no. 2010; (p. 31)

— Review of Singing Saltwater Country : Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria John Bradley , 2010 single work autobiography
1 A Bush Poet's Tribute Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Tintean : The Australian Irish Heritage Network , December vol. 14 no. 2010; (p. 21)
1 ‘[W]ry-Necked Memory' : The Matter of Ireland in Cutting Green Hay and Memory Ireland, and the Poems of The Pattern Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper examines the matter of Ireland in Buckley's two memoirs, Cutting Green Hay (1983) and Memory Ireland (1985), and the poems of The Pattern (1979), in order to revisit critically the ways in which he constructs himself as a diasporic Irish-Australian, a participant in the most remote Gaeltacht. It raises questions of victimhood, of similar and different experience of being at the mercy of the land, and of his re-engineering of the place of the political in poetry. It argues that Buckley's agonized positioning as Ireland's 'guest/foreigner/son' was a project that was doomed by its utopianism, and that, obsessed as he became with Ireland, the angst within had little to do with 'the Ireland within' or without. The paper suggests that the poet's slow and unacknowledged abandonment in his Irish period of a key tenet of modernism, its distrust of propaganda and the political, is in itself a new formation which had some continuity with the radicalism of his thinking during the formative years of the revolutionary catholic apostolate he led both at the University of Melbourne and nationally. It also points to the deployment of an ancient medieval Irish trope, that of the ocean (rather than a landmass) linking a dispersed community, as one of the ways the poetry effects a resolution of the issues of being 'Irish' in a remote country.' (Source : http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1409)
1 Subersive Acolyte Frances Devlin-Glass , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2009 - January 2010 no. 317 2009; (p. 68)

— Review of Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds 2006 anthology criticism interview autobiography
1 Conclusion Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 319-328)
1 The Earthed Sacred : Literary Imagination and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Fiction Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 287-318)
1 The Other Shore Is Here : Contemporary Poetry of the Sacred Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 243-286)
1 'Stories of the Old Country' : Reinventing Dreamtime Tropes in 'Poor Fellow My Country', 'Benang', and 'Carpentaria' Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 205-241)
1 'At-Home' Two-Ways : Negotiating the Sacred in the Pastoral Zone Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 165-204)
1 The Moving Image of Place : Judith Wright Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 141-163)
1 1 Displaced : James McAuley's Haunted Poetics Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 105-139)
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