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Stephen Alomes Stephen Alomes i(A32541 works by) (a.k.a. Stephen Gordon Alomes)
Born: Established: 1949 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Tears in the Imperial Curtain : Australia and Europe in the Twentieth Century Stephen Alomes , single work
1 y separately published work icon Our Pandemic Zeitgeist Stephen Alomes , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2020 21049393 2020 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Selective Ironies Stephen Alomes , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2020 20326789 2020 selected work poetry 'Selective Ironies pursues the little and the dark ironies of everyday life and their consolations. He explores our era of tweets, mobile phones, forms, overcrowded transport, travel and human angsts and frustrations in our strange and ever-changing global world. Stephen Alomes, an adjunct professor at RMIT University Melbourne, has written several non-fiction books, as a cultural historian of people, nation and popular culture, and is an expressionist painter in the German and Australian traditions. In his prose poetry, in words and images, he captures our experiences of everyday life and the narcissistic excesses of social media in our visual era.
‘Through his art and poetry, Stephen Alomes imaginatively transforms life’s little ironies, in an endeavour to make sense of it all - or not. He converts everyday activities into artworks whilst wryly observing the intricate social and cultural changes of the twenty-first century.’ - Elaine Lewis, author of Left Bank Waltz (2006), poetry translator and Franco-Anglais Poetry Festival (Paris) coordinator
'‘Witty, ironic and thought-provoking, Selective Ironies shares wisdom as it entertains.’ - Libor Mikeska, novelist, musician and scholar, Heidelberg, Germany' (Publication summary)
 
1 Flaws in the Glass : Why Australia Did Not Become a Republic … After Patrick White Stephen Alomes , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 470-485) 'Stephen Alomes proffers, with considerable empathy, even passion, an astute analysis of why an Australian republic could not be achieved through the last public referendum held on this issue. He goes to considerable lengths to show his awareness of the implications for Australian sovereignty; concerns which he notes were shared by White.' (Introduction, xiii)
1 Bob Bessant Stephen Alomes , 2013 single work obituary (for Bob Bessant )
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 37 no. 4 2013; (p. 535-536)
1 Quiet Days in Shimoichi Stephen Alomes , 2011 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 127 2011; (p. 136-140)
1 The Australian Dream : Visions and Revisions of 'New World' Futures Stephen Alomes , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bernard Hickey, a Roving Cultural Ambassador : Essays in His Memory. 2009; (p. 33-49)
1 Colonial to Global : Expatriation in Australia's Diasporic Story Stephen Alomes , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 381-394) The study pursues Australian expatriate experience from the colonial times to the 'globalised' twenty-first century.
1 Beggars on the Street of Thought Stephen Alomes , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 101 2005; (p. 26-31)
1 Nonfiction Stephen Alomes , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 99 2004; (p. 55-57)
— Review of Bypass : The Story of a Road Michael McGirr , 2004 single work prose
1 Beyond 'Kangaroo Valley' : The Rituals of Australian London Stephen Alomes , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 17 no. 1 2002; (p. 3-24)
1 Quiet Days in Toulouse Stephen Alomes , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 89 2002; (p. 103-107)
1 When Australia Became a Nation Stephen Alomes , 2000 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 4 February 2000;

'Sir, – Like the Australian fireworks display over the Thames on New Year’s Eve, Clive James’s essay regarding my book, When London Calls: The expatriation of Australian creative artists to Britain (January 28), offered more smoke than impact. The “review” fails to come to terms with the argument of the book, nor does it let facts get in the way of a good story. In contrast to Mr James’s swipes (“most of the big names” I wanted to talk to wouldn’t waste their time), only a handful of the book’s subjects refused to be interviewed. Clive James was unique in agreeing to be interviewed and then, a few weeks later, changing his mind.' (Introduction)

1 7 y separately published work icon When London Calls : The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain Stephen Alomes , Oakleigh : Cambridge University Press , 1999 Z168031 1999 single work criticism
1 Island Thoughts from Barcelona Stephen Alomes , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 80/81 1999-2000; (p. 83-89)
1 Beyond Cloistered Europe : Universities and the French Discovery of Australia Stephen Alomes , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations : A Journal of French-Australian Connections , December no. 15 1993; (p. 19-24) 'This article deals with the growing interest of French universities in Australian studies. After a discussion of the comparative scarcity of academic interest in Australian literature and culture in British institutions, especially Oxford, Cambridge and London, the author analyses the emergence of courses in Australian studies in some French universities. Although these 'few pockets of Australian studies' are, in Professor Xavier Pons' words, 'islands in the ocean', and although they are dependent on the personal involvement of individual scholars, they are not unrelated to a broader interest by the French in Australian culture and society. This trend can also be observed beyond the confines of academia, in the press, in books, in various organisations, especially in areas such as Australia's way of dealing with immigration and Australian multiculturalism, topics which are seen as being potentially relevant to the French experience. In sketching the possible future of Australian studies in France, the author also evokes the emergence of a parallel development in Australia, with the creation of the French-Australian Research Centre at the University of NSW and the foundation in Melbourne of the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations (ISFAR) and its magazine Explorations.' (Editor's abstract)
1 The Search for a National Theatre Stephen Alomes , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Voices , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 1993; (p. 21-37)
1 [Review] Portrait of an Optimist Stephen Alomes , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June no. 29 1991; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Portrait of an Optimist Donald Horne , 1988 single work autobiography
1 The Forgotten Critics : Freelance Intellectuals in Australia in the Twentieth Century Stephen Alomes , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 50 no. 4 1991; (p. 553-564)
1 Culture and Colonialism : The Expatriation of Australian Writers to Britain Stephen Alomes , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Passage to Somewhere Else 1988; (p. 1-10)

Focuses upon Australian writers and journalists going to Britain from 1945 to the late 1960s, and on the causes of their departure.
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