National Library of Australia

1999

Australian Writing and the City

Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference, held at New South Wales Writers' Centre, Sydney, 2-6 July 1999, edited by Fran de Groen and Ken Stewart

Table of Contents

Foreword PDF
 

Articles

Sydney, Not the Bush Abstract PDF
Peter Conrad 7-17
The Camp as 'New Albion': Early Visions and Views of Sydney Abstract PDF
Deidre Coleman 18-30
Approximating the World: Women, 'Civilisation' amd Colonial Melbourne Abstract PDF
Rowena Mohr 31-37
Randolph the Reckless: Explorations in Australian Masculine Identity, 1889-1941 Abstract PDF
Cheryl Taylor 38-45
Ready-made Dissidence? The Figure of the Factory Girl in Modern Australian Poetry Abstract PDF
Ann Vickery 46-53
'A little bit of the real Sydney': Comparing Gender, Socialism and the City in Works by William Lane and Christina Stead Abstract PDF
Brigid Rooney 54-61
Walking through Seven Poor Men of Sydney Abstract PDF
Peter Kirkpatrick 62-67
Down (but not Out) in the City Abstract PDF
Julian Croft 68-76
A Prose Kinema: Kenneth Slessor's Film Writing Abstract PDF
Philip Mead 77-87
Post-Carnivalism in David Ireland'sThe Unknown Industrial Prisoner Abstract PDF
David Musgrave 88-93
Vincent Buckley: The City and the Sacred Abstract PDF
Noel Rowe 94-100
'Something brand new on the skyline': Renovating the City in Contemporary Australian Detective Fiction Abstract PDF
Robert Beardwood 101-107
The Urbanisation of Australia: Representations of Australia in Popular Culture Abstract PDF
Selina Samuels 108-114
Urban Shocks and Local Scandals: Blackrock and the Problem of Australian True-crime Fiction Abstract PDF
Donna Lee Brien 115-122
The City and the Contemporary Australian Long Poem Abstract PDF
David McCooey 123-128
Brian Castro's Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic Abstract PDF
Bernadette Brennan 129-137
Michael Wilding's 'Lost Illusions': the Balzacian Underpinnings of Wildest Dreams Abstract PDF
Don Grahan 138-143
An Australian Convict in the Great English City: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs Abstract PDF
Sigrun Meinig 144-149
Do We Have a Discipline? The Great Aust Lit Debate Abstract PDF
Leon Cantrell 150-156
Nostalgia in the Global City: Recuperating the Battler in the Sydney Production of Cloudstreet Abstract PDF
Tom Burvill 157-164
From Cityscape to Cyberspace: Writing the City in Hypermedia Abstract PDF
Hazel Smith 165-172
The Circus is in Town: Literary Festivals and the Mapping of Cultural Heritage Abstract PDF
Wenche Ommundsen 173-179