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Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 The Legend of the Nineties
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* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Melbourne University Press , 1954 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Legend, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 1-20)
The People, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 21-40)
Myth-making, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 41-58)
The Utopians, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 59-74)
The Bushman's Bible, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 88-108)
Literature Emerges, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 93-112)
Conflict, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 113-134)
Compromise, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 135-146)
A Lost Tradition?, Vance Palmer , single work criticism (p. 147-150)
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 15 no. 3 2015; Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia 2016; (p. 173-195) 'One of the leading figures in world literature today is the Harvard scholar David Damrosch. His 2003 book What is World Literature? has been widely influential, and might be said to have established the new, US-centred field of study known as world literature. In a 2010 review of three later books edited or co-edited by Damrosch—How to Read World Literature (2009), Teaching World Literature (2009) and The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2009)—John M. Kopper describes them as Damrosch’s aleph. The reference, which I take to be ironic, is to the title story of Jorge Luis Borges’s collection, The Aleph (1949). The aleph is a mysterious gadget that apparently allows the narrator, who is also named ‘Borges,’ briefly to experience an all-encompassing vision of the universe. It is a parable about the madness of desiring a total or ‘encyclopedic vision’ (Echevarria 125). To describe world literature as Damrosch’s aleph is to imply that it is fundamentally misguided to seek a total vision of literature or to read books at the scale of the world. ‘If the aleph stands for the totality of literature,’ Kopper writes, then today’s rich and expanding bibliography of works about that immensity, along with the increasingly massive anthologies that seek to encircle it, show that we have lost our fear of the unbounded object that we study’ (408). ' (Author's introduction)
Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History Melanie Nolan , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015; 'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction)
Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children Susan Sheridan , Emma Maguire , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'In the 1950s, bush settings were strong favourites for children’s novels, which often took the form of a generic mix of adventure story and bildungsroman, novel of individual development. In using bush settings to take up the environmental concerns of the period, the early novels of Wrightson and Chauncy added a new dimension to traditional settler images of rural life as central to Australian national identity. The bush is loved for its beauty and revered as a source of knowledge and character building, rather than being represented as an antagonist which must be overcome or domesticated. In this respect, Chauncy in particular anticipates later ecological concerns in writing for children.' (Publication abstract)
The Federation of Letters : A Faild Partnership in Australian Literary and Political History Brian Matthews , 2013 single work criticism
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The Gay Nineties Seem Just a Day-Dream Roger Covell , 1954 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 May 1954; (p. 2)
— Review of The Legend of the Nineties Vance Palmer , 1954 multi chapter work criticism
The Nineties W. A. Amiet , 1954 single work review
— Appears in: The Daily Mercury , 26 June 1954; (p. 2)
— Review of The Legend of the Nineties Vance Palmer , 1954 multi chapter work criticism
A Patriotic Book D. M. , 1954 single work review
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— Review of The Legend of the Nineties Vance Palmer , 1954 multi chapter work criticism
Myth Australia or the Nostalgic Lovers 1954 single work review
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Legend of our 1890s A. D. Hope , 1954 single work review
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Australian National Identity : Rectifying an All-Male Perspective Hazel Rowley , 1980 single work criticism
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