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Dedication: ... for Barbara
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Epigraph: What was going to happen when it all stopped - if it ever did? Who was going to unlearn it for them? - T.A.G. Hungerford, The Ridge and the River
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
See C.A. Cranston's dissertation 'Deformity as Device in the Twentieth-century Australian Novel'.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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The Long and Short of Loneliness
single work
review
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel -
The Zwergroman : Literary Dwarfs under the Australian Gaze
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 36 no. 1 2023; (p. 78-93)'Ubiquitous, highly visible, nonspecific to geography, history, race, or sex, dwarfism's connection with Australia's mythic and literary histories is remarkable enough to suggest here that it occupy its own subgenre in literature, the zwergroman (m). Australia's branding as the "Antipodes" geographically recalls its colonial past; mythographically the imaginative configuration was as an underworld of opposites ruled by the diminutive King of the Antipodes. Thus, the zwergroman is frequently fashioned from Celtic myths of the colonizing power along with the shaping power of colonial processes. In addition to introducing the conventions of the zwergroman and demonstrating the significance of dwarf characters to Australia's pre- and postcolonial narratives, this article gradually introduces concepts from disability studies (through the scholarly work of Erin Pritchard, David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, and others) by examining representations and cultural meanings imposed on dwarf characters prior to the counter histories of twenty-first-century short-statured scholars whose demand for personhood required an engagement with subjective and experiential realities. The novels discussed (1970–94) represent a cluster of dwarf-centric novels by notable writers, all able-bodied at the time of writing (excepting Patrick White). They include C. J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously (1978; filmed 1982); James McQueen, Hook's Mountain (1982); Ruth Park, Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977); Peter Carey, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994); and Patrick White, The Vivisector (1970).' (Publication abstract)
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Literary Eco-Consciousness : Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 362-370) This paper historicises and clarifies major differences between Natural History Writing, and Nature Writing, through examples from early Tasmanian writing thus demonstrating the existence of an early and active literary ecoconsciousness. The paper then moves from a consideration of the restrictions of the belle lettristic (or essay) form, to ecowriting in prose fiction. ... James McQueen's Hook's Mountain (1982) and Charlotte I. Dick's Huon Belle (1930) will be examined from two ecocritical perspectives, deep ecology and ecofeminism' (362). -
Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001; (p. [59]-67) The author looks at the differences between natural history writing and nature writing using examples from Tasmanian writing, and discusses the belle letteristic (or essay) form and ecowriting in prose fiction. -
In Memory of a Man Who Helped Save the Franklin
1999
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 2 January 1999; (p. 6)
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Hook's Mission on the Mountain
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The National Times , 13-19 June 1982; (p. 23)
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel -
It's His Mountain But Who's Hook?
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 June 1982; (p. 38)
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel -
Novel Examines Violence
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 August 1982; (p. 13)
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel -
Writing as an Act of Resistance
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , December no. 13 1982; (p. 52-54)
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel ; The Eye Opener 1982 single work novel ; Games of the Strong 1982 single work novel ; Archipelagoes 1982 selected work short story -
Last Year's Warrior
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 27 no. 3 1983; (p. 84-86)
— Review of Hook's Mountain 1982 single work novel -
Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001; (p. [59]-67) The author looks at the differences between natural history writing and nature writing using examples from Tasmanian writing, and discusses the belle letteristic (or essay) form and ecowriting in prose fiction. -
Literary Eco-Consciousness : Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 362-370) This paper historicises and clarifies major differences between Natural History Writing, and Nature Writing, through examples from early Tasmanian writing thus demonstrating the existence of an early and active literary ecoconsciousness. The paper then moves from a consideration of the restrictions of the belle lettristic (or essay) form, to ecowriting in prose fiction. ... James McQueen's Hook's Mountain (1982) and Charlotte I. Dick's Huon Belle (1930) will be examined from two ecocritical perspectives, deep ecology and ecofeminism' (362). -
Hook's Country
1985
single work
biography
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 35-38) -
A Passion for Words, Orchids
1998
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obituary
(for James McQueen
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— Appears in: The Mercury , 28 December 1998; (p. 22) -
Strange Shapes and Presences : The Fiction of James McQueen
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Spring no. 16 1983; (p. 12-17)
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