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Dedication: To the memory of my paternal grandparents whose philosophical wit and wisdom and high integrity are a living legend of the Murrumbidgee.
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- Also braille.
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Modernism, Antipodernism, and Australian Aboriginality
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Decolonizing the Landscape : Indigenous Cultures in Australia 2014; (p. 89-106)'THIS ESSAY DESCRIBES THE ENTANGLEMENT in Australia of three concepts: modernism; 'settler modernity'; and Aboriginality. Its three principal arguments are: (i) that European perceptions of Australian Aboriginal cultures were deeply influential in the development of modernism; (ii) that anxieties about the proximity of Aboriginal and settler peoples in Australia — but also resistance to European theories of Aboriginal culture not validated through personal experience of interacting with Aboriginal Australians — influenced strong anti-modernist sentiment among some Australian artists and writers; and (iii) that perhaps this 'anti-modernism' might instead be characterized as an 'alternative' modernism in Australia — an entanglement of visions of progress and degeneration — to which I will give the purposefully ugly label of 'antipedernism'. In developing these arguments I will make reference to Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913) as inflected by the work in Australia of Francis Gillen and Baldwin Spencer, and discuss writings by Miles Franklin in particular, as well as Katharine Susannah Prichard, D.H. Lawrence, A.D. Hope, and Christina Stead.'
Source: From paragraph one (p.89).
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On Love, War and Literary Life : The Newcastle Morning Herald Serialises The Thorny Rose
2013
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criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 113-118) -
Keeping It in the Family; One Way To Interpret the Past
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 118-133) -
Legendary Australians
The Legend and the Legacy
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: Writing Across the Continent 2008; -
Stella Miles Franklin (1879-1954) and Rose Scott (1847-1925) : Visionaries Who Demanded Change to the Role of Women
2002
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biography
— Appears in: Great Australian Women : Volume 2 - From Pioneering Days to the Present 2002; (p. 100-174)
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Recent Books: Digest of the Month's Reading
1947
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review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , May vol. 1 no. 11 1947; (p. 507-508)
— Review of Sunday at Yarralumla : A Symphony 1947 selected work poetry ; Wanderer's Rest 1946 selected work prose ; All That Swagger 1936 single work novel ; Ben Hall : The Bushranger 1947 single work novel -
Untitled
1937
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review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 2 January 1937; (p. 19)
— Review of All That Swagger 1936 single work novel -
Untitled
1936
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 December 1936; (p. 20)
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Novels of the Day : Miles Franklin's Triumph
1936
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 December no. 30882 1936; (p. 3)
— Review of All That Swagger 1936 single work novel ; The Shadow-Tree 1936 single work novel -
A Fruitful Vine
1936
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review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 December vol. 57 no. 2965 1936; (p. 4)
— Review of All That Swagger 1936 single work novel -
Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers
1937
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— Appears in: All About Books , 12 March vol. 9 no. 3 1937; (p. 44) -
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report]
1937
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 April vol. 9 no. 4 1937; (p. 62-63) Notes from the meeting of 15 March. A letter from Villiers (possibly when writing Cruise of the Conrad) in the United States was read. Presentations included 'The Trend of Australian Novels' by Mrs W. M. Peacock, 'The Novel and the Screen' by Tarlton Rayment, 'Where Australia Leads' (in the creation of light verse acoording to Montague Grover) and 'The Australian market for Writers' by Alan Marshall. Jago announced a new magazine to be produced in Sydney the scope of which would include "good fiction, verse of a high standard, and the work of black and white artists". -
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report]
1937
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 June vol. 9 no. 6 1937; (p. 94-95) Report of meeting of 18 May. Includes lengthy reports of Mrs. G. A. Hunter's discussion of the life and work of Jennings Carmichael and Mr. J. McKellar's review of All That Swagger. -
Legendary Australians
The Legend and the Legacy
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: Writing Across the Continent 2008; -
Keeping It in the Family; One Way To Interpret the Past
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 118-133)
Awards
- 1936 winner S.H. Prior Memorial Prize