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Greg Manning Greg Manning i(A29422 works by)
Born: Established: 1954 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Goodbye Redcoats : Robert Dixon's Cartographic Summary of the Moreton Bay Campaign Greg Manning , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , August vol. 25 no. 2 2022; (p. 119-136)

'Robert Dixon's 1842 'Map of Moreton Bay' represents a portion of land, which is very similar to that represented by the Bureau of Meteorology's 128 km Brisbane (Mt Stapylton) Radar Loop.1 Dixon's is a chart of landforms, acknowledging very few human settlements. Most of the place names he used can be associated with one specific generation. As such, this map provides a unique snapshot from a time of global and local upheaval. Globally, the preindustrial era was coming to an end, with the advent of coal-fired locomotion. The British Parliament had passed its Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Two British armies had recently invaded Kabul. Locally, the last of the commandants was about to leave the lands represented by Dixon's 1842 map. The administration of the commandants would be replaced by the administrators of a terrestrial fund. This paper aims to provide an orientation to some of the sources and relationships that inform the interpretation of this 1842 map.'(Publication abstract)
1 Postmodernist and Literary Experiments : Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific Victoria Kuttainen , Greg Manning , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 2017; (p. 221-235)

'In the late 1980s, as the Canadian scholar Robert David Stacey remarks, 'talk of postmodernism was everywhere' (2010, xii). Yet postmodernism certainly took regional forms. Novelists in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific briefly and tentatively identified under the banner of the postmodern, while writers in Canada took up the cause and title of the postmodern more visibly and actively.'
1 The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge Greg Manning , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 71-79) 'The reading of Ada Cambridge's fiction described in this paper is part of a pursuit of an undercurrent in Australian self-representations of what I can perhaps best describe as a strain of ontological doubt - doubt not about what it means to be Australian so much as about what it might mean, in Australia, to be. As is to be expected, intimations of this uncertainty - not quite an idea, nor yet an emotion, nor a self-consistent state - emerge first in colonial writings, often around the figure of disappearance, or of being invisible. They concern the intersubjective European response to Australian space, the sense that to live in the antipodes was not merely to live, in the world's terms, an eclipsed and therefore insignificant life - that much was obvious - but was to be silent, invisible, not to signify: semiotically speaking, to cease to be. One associative consequence of this sense is the thought that antipodean space is itself liminal, para-real, otherworldly. Such an imaginary landscape is of course both constructed by and significantly constructive of any sense of being-yet-not-being in the world. The doubt of which I speak is ideological only in the sense that it emerged in the colonies as part of the imaginary relation to the real condition of inhabiting Australian space, as an element in what we might call the colonial imaginary. It was never programmatically imposed to serve hegemonic interests; to the contrary, it served no interest at all. Its emergence can be compared to the formation of a national accent, in that both are more or less apparent but quite unintended and uncontrolled consequences of establishing a new society. Perhaps, in the context of our conference topic, this idea might be imagined as the shadow of the fear of meaninglessness, stretching itself across colonial attempts to make newly claimed spaces, and lives in those spaces, meaningful.' (Author's abstract p. 71)
1 Too Concerned with Significance Greg Manning , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 28 no. 2 2001; (p. 78-80)
— Review of The Architect Jillian Watkinson , 2000 single work novel
1 In Memoriam, Ross Stanley Smith Elizabeth Perkins , Greg Manning , Cheryl M. Taylor , Anthony J. Hassall , 2000 single work obituary (for Ross Smith )
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 27 no. 2 2000; (p. 9-11)

'Students, friends and colleagues were deeply grieved to learn, shortly before Christmas last year, of the death in Brisbane of Ross Smith, who lectured for many years in James Cook University's former Department of English.' (Publication abstract)
1 Sparks and Seams: An Interview with Morag Fraser Greg Manning (interviewer), 1999 single work interview
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 26 no. 1 1999; (p. 35-42)
1 What the Dickens Greg Manning , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 24 no. 2 1997; (p. 118-123)
— Review of Jack Maggs Peter Carey , 1997 single work novel
1 'Legitimate Criticism' Greg Manning , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 20 no. 1 1993; (p. 89-92)
— Review of Real Opinions : Polemical and Popular Writings Don Anderson , 1992 selected work criticism
1 Other Australias Greg Manning , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 19 no. 2 1992; (p. 162-168)
— Review of Tourism Bernard Cohen , 1992 single work novel
1 Untitled Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 210-211)
— Review of The Plains Gerald Murnane , 1982 single work novel
1 [Review] The Bodysurfers Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 66)
— Review of The Bodysurfers Robert Drewe , 1983 selected work short story
1 Untitled Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 111)
— Review of Out of the Line of Fire Mark Henshaw , 1988 single work novel
1 Untitled Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 27)
— Review of The Book of Sei and Other Stories David Brooks , 1985 selected work short story
1 Signs Straining for Meaning Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 111 1989; (p. 30-31)
— Review of After the Great Novelist and Other Stories Suzanne Falkiner , 1989 selected work short story
1 Sourced in the Body Greg Manning , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 109 1989; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Working Hot : A Novel Mary Fallon , 1989 single work novel
1 Into the Frying Pan : Out of the Line of Fire Greg Manning , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Scripsi , vol. 5 no. 3 1989; (p. 213-221)
1 Peter Carey's Latest Gamble Greg Manning (interviewer), 1988 single work biography interview criticism
— Appears in: The Book Magazine , Winter vol. 2 no. 1 1988; (p. 3-6)
1 Untitled Greg Manning , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Book Magazine , Autumn vol. 1 no. 4 1988; (p. 17)
— Review of The Electrolux Man and Other Stories Jeri Kroll , 1987 selected work short story
1 A Litany of Lies Greg Manning , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , June 1988; (p. 5-6)
— Review of Liars : Australian New Novelists Helen Daniel , 1988 selected work criticism prose extract
1 Untitled Greg Manning , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Book Magazine , Winter vol. 2 no. 1 1988; (p. 30)
— Review of Building on Sand David Parker , 1988 single work novel
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