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'A group of visitors to the Salzburg Festival, brought together by chance, decides to mark time by telling tales. Their sketches, anecdotes, fantasies, legends, tragedies, jokes and parodies combine to make The Salzburg Tales. ' (Publication summary : 2015 edition)
Contents
- The Triskelion, single work short story
- Day of Wrath : The Schoolboy's Tale, single work short story
- Introduction, single work essay
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Modern Uncanny and Christina Stead's 'The Marionettist'
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 3 2013;'This paper argues that Christina Stead's short story, 'The Marionettist,' a story from her 1934 collection, The Salzburg Tales, is felt as uncanny. This paper is in part a response to a 2003 paper by Michael Ackland, which traces the debt 'The Marionettist' owes to E.T.A. Hoffmann's writing. This is a debt which, Ackland argues, does not extend to producing uncanny effects. This paper takes a different view, arguing that not only is 'The Marionettist' felt as uncanny, but that it derives its uncanny effects from various sources. Some of these sources correspond to the different classes of uncanny identified by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay, 'The Uncanny.' These classes are the repressed, the surmounted, and the death drive. My reading of Stead's story emphasizes Freud's suggestion that uncanny effects are dependent on timeless, or archaic, processes. In making this point a distinction is made between the content of the processes (for example, what is repressed), and the processes themselves (the act of repressing), and it is argued that only the content is historically susceptible. The paper proposes that this complicates a tendency by recent writers on the uncanny to limit the uncanny to modernity.' (Publication abstract)
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Christina Stead : Her Luck
2013
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essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 3 2013; (p. 66-78) -
Dreaming of the Middle Ages : The Place of 'mitterlalterlich' and Socialist Awareness in Christina Stead's Early Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 54-68) -
‘A Skyrocket Waiting to Be Let Off’, but to Where? Christina Stead’s First Impressions of the United States
and Her Postwar Literary Rehabilitation
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 225-239) 'This paper focuses on Stead's journal and manuscripts comments on Boston and Manhattan in the mid-1930s, on their ideological implications, and on the insights they provide into her imaginative projection and exploration of 'America' in her fiction.' (Author's abstract) -
Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 229-244) Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.
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[Review] The Salzburg Tales
1934
single work
review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 11 August 1934; (p. 46)
— Review of The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story -
Worthwhile Sortie into Literary Past
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 November 1991; (p. 21)
— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story ; The Pea Pickers 1942 single work novel ; The Watch Tower 1966 single work novel ; Disturbing Element 1963 single work autobiography -
C.K. Stead Writes About Christina Stead
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 4 September 1986; (p. 13-14)
— Review of Ocean of Story : The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead 1985 selected work short story prose extract drama biography ; The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story -
Christina Stead's Books Excite After 30 Years
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 June 1966; (p. 18)
— Review of Seven Poor Men of Sydney 1934 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story -
American Tragedy
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 June 1966; (p. 25)
— Review of The Man Who Loved Children 1940 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story -
Whatever Happened to Coppelius? Antecedents and Design in Christina Stead's The Salzburg Tales
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 53-66) Ackland aims to demonstrate the way in which Stead's writings 'simultaneously exploit and subvert the traditions and conventions available to her'. Concentrating on 'The Marionettist', the first of the Salzburg tales, with its recasting of the puppeteer motif, he detects the influence of Hoffmann on Stead; he find the story 'hints at a range of ensuing pre-occupations, and evokes a past imaginative realm that affords one measure of the existential slippages and social developments that have complicated received themes in a modern, increasingly psychoanalytical age.' pp.53-54. -
Christina Stead and the Marxist Imagery
2003
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criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 63-75) -
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations
1934
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 6 no. 9 1934; (p. 182-183) -
‘A Skyrocket Waiting to Be Let Off’, but to Where? Christina Stead’s First Impressions of the United States
and Her Postwar Literary Rehabilitation
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 225-239) 'This paper focuses on Stead's journal and manuscripts comments on Boston and Manhattan in the mid-1930s, on their ideological implications, and on the insights they provide into her imaginative projection and exploration of 'America' in her fiction.' (Author's abstract) -
Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 229-244) Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.