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Joe Wilson's Mates
1956
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film/TV
— Appears in: Three in One 1956;Based on Henry Lawson's poem 'The Union Buries its Dead,' Joe Wilson's Mates is set in a small country town during the 1890s. Joe Wilson is a stranger in town, with no known family or friends. When he dies, he is found to be carrying a union card, so the local members decide to honour one of their own with a decent funeral. The narrative sees the sweating union men making frequent stops on their way to the graveyard to rest, drink beer, and bicker.
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Bob Brothers Australia : ABC Television , 1980 7140630 1980 single work film/TV
— Appears in: Lawson's Mates 1980; (p. 1-57)'Bob, a young country bumpkin with a heart of gold, is always helping people in distress.
'He is attracted to Hannah, a pretty, young Salvation Army girl, but she is clearly disapproving of his friendship with three prostitutes who pay a visit to the town.
'Hannah, however, is not all she seems to be, but Bob is not one to censure, nor abandon his generous ways.'
Source:
'Kind-hearted Bob: ABC to Show Series Based on Lawson', The Canberra Times, 4 January 1980, p.9.
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This work was originally published in the Bulletin in 1893 with the title 'The Union Buries Its Dead : A Bushman's Funeral. A Sketch from Life'. The title was shortened to 'The Union Buries Its Dead' for inclusion in While the Billy Boils (1896).
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The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 71-79) 'The reading of Ada Cambridge's fiction described in this paper is part of a pursuit of an undercurrent in Australian self-representations of what I can perhaps best describe as a strain of ontological doubt - doubt not about what it means to be Australian so much as about what it might mean, in Australia, to be. As is to be expected, intimations of this uncertainty - not quite an idea, nor yet an emotion, nor a self-consistent state - emerge first in colonial writings, often around the figure of disappearance, or of being invisible. They concern the intersubjective European response to Australian space, the sense that to live in the antipodes was not merely to live, in the world's terms, an eclipsed and therefore insignificant life - that much was obvious - but was to be silent, invisible, not to signify: semiotically speaking, to cease to be. One associative consequence of this sense is the thought that antipodean space is itself liminal, para-real, otherworldly. Such an imaginary landscape is of course both constructed by and significantly constructive of any sense of being-yet-not-being in the world. The doubt of which I speak is ideological only in the sense that it emerged in the colonies as part of the imaginary relation to the real condition of inhabiting Australian space, as an element in what we might call the colonial imaginary. It was never programmatically imposed to serve hegemonic interests; to the contrary, it served no interest at all. Its emergence can be compared to the formation of a national accent, in that both are more or less apparent but quite unintended and uncontrolled consequences of establishing a new society. Perhaps, in the context of our conference topic, this idea might be imagined as the shadow of the fear of meaninglessness, stretching itself across colonial attempts to make newly claimed spaces, and lives in those spaces, meaningful.' (Author's abstract p. 71) -
The Camaraderie of Not Caring : Misreading Henry Lawson
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 51 no. 11 2007; (p. 60-64) -
Henry Lawson's Nihilism in 'The Union Buries It's Dead'
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Atlantis , December vol. 27 no. 2 2005; (p. 87-100) -
Death and Burial in the Bush: A Distinctive Australian Culture of Death
2001
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 236 2001; (p. 43-48) -
Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision
1997
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Studies in Classic Australian Fiction 1997; (p. 32-75) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 30) Wilding challenges the critical consensus that dismisses Lawson's political writing. Wilding demonstrates that when these stories are analysed in historical and intellectual contexts a "rich specificity of social observation and political thought" is revealed.
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Henry Lawson's Nihilism in 'The Union Buries It's Dead'
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Atlantis , December vol. 27 no. 2 2005; (p. 87-100) -
The Camaraderie of Not Caring : Misreading Henry Lawson
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 51 no. 11 2007; (p. 60-64) -
Henry Lawson's Short Stories
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Radical Tradition : Lawson, Furphy, Stead 1993; (p. 1-29) -
The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 71-79) 'The reading of Ada Cambridge's fiction described in this paper is part of a pursuit of an undercurrent in Australian self-representations of what I can perhaps best describe as a strain of ontological doubt - doubt not about what it means to be Australian so much as about what it might mean, in Australia, to be. As is to be expected, intimations of this uncertainty - not quite an idea, nor yet an emotion, nor a self-consistent state - emerge first in colonial writings, often around the figure of disappearance, or of being invisible. They concern the intersubjective European response to Australian space, the sense that to live in the antipodes was not merely to live, in the world's terms, an eclipsed and therefore insignificant life - that much was obvious - but was to be silent, invisible, not to signify: semiotically speaking, to cease to be. One associative consequence of this sense is the thought that antipodean space is itself liminal, para-real, otherworldly. Such an imaginary landscape is of course both constructed by and significantly constructive of any sense of being-yet-not-being in the world. The doubt of which I speak is ideological only in the sense that it emerged in the colonies as part of the imaginary relation to the real condition of inhabiting Australian space, as an element in what we might call the colonial imaginary. It was never programmatically imposed to serve hegemonic interests; to the contrary, it served no interest at all. Its emergence can be compared to the formation of a national accent, in that both are more or less apparent but quite unintended and uncontrolled consequences of establishing a new society. Perhaps, in the context of our conference topic, this idea might be imagined as the shadow of the fear of meaninglessness, stretching itself across colonial attempts to make newly claimed spaces, and lives in those spaces, meaningful.' (Author's abstract p. 71) -
Nationality and Australian Literature
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies : A Survey 1989; (p. 136-155)
- Darling River, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
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