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- Interview with Christina Stead, single work interview (p. 431-448)
- The Alienation of Alistair Cawdor in Randolph Stow's Visitants, single work criticism (p. 449-459)
- Fred J. Broomfield : research assistant extraordinaire, single work biography (p. 460-475)
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The Support of Literature in Colonial Australia,
single work
criticism
'This paper will present an interpretative and selective survey of colonial events and controversies leading to Alfred Deakin's establishment of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1908. Deakin inherited the ideological commitment of colonial cultural missionaries who had for decades debated five related lasses: the aims of "culture"; the role and importance of the writer in relation to his society; the connection between literature and nationality, and between literature and nationalism; the kind of support writers might receive; and the responsibility of the State towards the writer. These issues are discussed not as abstract debate, but within a researched historical and documentary framework, which, it is hoped, will itself fill some gaps in the generally received awareness of colonial literary history. An examination is offered of the sequence of practical efforts made to assist writers for the second half of the nineteenth century, in en attempt to understand and define some colonial attitudes towards literature and literary culture. ' (Introduction)
- Judith Wright's Delicate Balance, single work criticism (p. 488-496)
- The Ambiguous Modernist : Themes in the Development of the Poetry of John Tranter, single work criticism (p. 497-501)
- Small Presses and Little Magazines in the 1970s, single work criticism (p. 501-507)
- Christina Stead : A Checklist, single work bibliography (p. 508-535)
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David Ireland's 'Prisoner' and 'The Flesheaters',
single work
criticism
Examines The Unknown Industrial Prisoner under the aspect of the author's allusions and references to an American novel, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West.
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— Review of Responses : Selected Writings 1979 selected work criticism review ; The Literature of Western Australia 1979 anthology criticism ; (p. 539-541) -
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— Review of Australian Literature : A Reference Guide 1977 single work bibliography ; (p. 542-547) -
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— Review of The Jindyworobaks 1979 anthology poetry criticism extract ; (p. 547-552) -
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— Review of After 'The Doll' : Australian Drama Since 1955 1979 multi chapter work criticism criticism ; (p. 552-555) -
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— Review of The Journalistic Javelin : An Illustrated History of The Bulletin 1979 single work criticism ; (p. 555-559) -
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— Review of Frank the Poet : The Life and Works of Francis MacNamara 1979 selected work criticism poetry biography ; (p. 559-561) -
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— Review of Eleanor Dark 1976 single work criticism biography ; Frank Dalby Davison 1979 single work biography criticism ; (p. 561-564) - Correspondence, single work correspondence (p. 567-569)