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Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature

JASAL is a peer-reviewed journal, published in two volumes each year by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. One of these volumes is a special conference issue; the other will be put online in installments through the year as material is prepared. JASAL welcomes essays that consider Australian literature in all its forms (fictional, critical, print, filmic, and so on) and in terms of its socio-political and cultural contexts. We encourage readers to become ASAL members and to visit the ASAL website for information about conferences and other activities.

Michael Leunig's <em> I Love a Sunburnt Country </em>

Reproduced with the permission of Michael Leunig.

Vol 9 (2009)

Articles and book reviews for this volume will be put online in stages, as they are edited.

Table of Contents

Articles

Poetry and Public Speech: Three Traces Abstract PDF
David McCooey 11
The Writer Alan D. Mickle: Serendipity, Vanity and Obscurity in an Australian Literary Career Abstract PDF
Patrick Buckridge 11
Tracing the Spectre of Death in Francis Webb's Last Poems. Abstract
Bernadette Brennan

Reviews

In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy by Stuart Cunningham PDF
Fiona Nicoll 5
Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour edited by Fran De Groen and Peter Kirkpatrick PDF
Paul Genoni 4
Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright edited by Anne Pender and Susan Lever PDF
John McCallum 3
Australia’s Birthstain: the Startling Legacy of the Convict Era by Babette Smith PDF
Chad Habel 3
After the Celebration by Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman PDF
Jean-François Vernay 4
Brian Castro's Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language by Bernadette Brennan PDF
Jacinta van den Berg 5