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Xavier Herbert. Requiem for Genius
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 23 no. 2 2017; (p. 106-125)'In today’s global celebrity culture it’s hard to imagine a word more over-used and abused than ‘genius’. It is a slippery word with a long and contradictory conceptual history. Yet, in the Land of the Tall Poppy, self-confessions of genius invariably have paved a broad road to public ridicule and denigration. Xavier Herbert’s notion of genius was not static. It changed throughout his life and it evolved through his writing. He agreed with Carlyle that the first condition of genius must always be a ‘transcendent capacity of taking trouble’ and on this foundation he built his own concept of genius, as the unending ‘capacity for loving’. This article explores what genius meant to Xavier Herbert and how it translated into his fiction, before considering how our sense of genius today influences the way we respond to his most challenging fictions of love and hate, 'Capricornia' and 'Poor Fellow My Country'.' (Publication abstract)
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Daphne Walking Past
2010
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prose
— Appears in: Sand 2010; (p. 25-27) Swimming to the Moon 2014; (p. 171-174) -
The Australian Home-Front Novel of the Second World War: Genre, Gender and Region
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 79-91) -
Mavericks and Misfits
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 158-169) ''Place is not a simple concept. There is 'place' as we know it from walking along it, from looking and working and taking shelter in it. There is 'place' shown on maps, where we run our fingers across swathes of it, locating points or large areas in relation to each other, orienting ourselves. There is 'place' as landscape and seascape, depicted in painted, photographed and filmed images, and described in written texts. And there is the 'idea of place' - a product formed in a culture through association of a site with an accumulation of outputs and critical responses: emotion - all that comes culturally to settle in place.' (Author's introduction p. 158) - y Xavier Herbert : A Biography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1998 Z403827 1998 single work biography This first biography of Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) explores the contradictions at the core of his turbulent life and career. It charts his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity.
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Untitled
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: The Critic , 2 October vol. 1 no. 12 1961; (p. 81)
— Review of Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel -
Mother on the Tiles
1962
single work
review
— Appears in: The Critic , 26 January vol. 2 no. 5 1962; (p. 36)
— Review of Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel -
Untitled
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 29 July 1961; (p. 4)
— Review of Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel -
Untitled
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: Walkabout , vol. 27 no. 10 1961; (p. 41)
— Review of The Darkening Ecliptic 1944 collected work poetry ; Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel -
Another Look at Xavier Herbert
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 August vol. 82 no. 4251 1961; (p. 31-32)
— Review of Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel -
Politics and Xavier Herbert's Women
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 5 no. 1 1983; (p. 51-62) -
The Australian Home-Front Novel of the Second World War: Genre, Gender and Region
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 79-91) -
Daphne Walking Past
2010
single work
prose
— Appears in: Sand 2010; (p. 25-27) Swimming to the Moon 2014; (p. 171-174) -
Mavericks and Misfits
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 158-169) ''Place is not a simple concept. There is 'place' as we know it from walking along it, from looking and working and taking shelter in it. There is 'place' shown on maps, where we run our fingers across swathes of it, locating points or large areas in relation to each other, orienting ourselves. There is 'place' as landscape and seascape, depicted in painted, photographed and filmed images, and described in written texts. And there is the 'idea of place' - a product formed in a culture through association of a site with an accumulation of outputs and critical responses: emotion - all that comes culturally to settle in place.' (Author's introduction p. 158) -
Shopping for Words
1995
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , August no. 78 1995; (p. 12)
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1930-1949