National Library of Australia

1998

Australian Literature and the Public Sphere

Refereed Proceedings of the 1998 Conference, Toowoomba 3-7 July 1998, edited by Alison Bartlett, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee

Table of Contents

Foreword PDF
  i-vii
Keynote Address: Australian Literature and the Public Sphere Abstract PDF
  1-12

Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture

Australian Literature in the Marketplace PDF
Elizabeth Webby 13-22

Articles

Bringing them Home The Power of Story as Public Discourse Abstract PDF
Bernadette Brennan 23-32
What's Policy Got to Do With It? Cultural Policy and Forms of Writing Abstract PDF
Cathy Greenfield, Peter Williams 33-43
What's in a Name? Helen Garner and the Power of the Author in the Public Domain Abstract PDF
Cath Darcy 44-50
Legal Witchcraft and the Craft of Fiction: Wik and its Literary Precedents Abstract PDF
Terry Threadgold 51-65
Magazine Culture: notes Towards a History of Australian Periodical Publication 1920-1970 Abstract PDF
David Carter 69-79
Better Half-Dead than Read? The Mezzomorto Cases and their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s Abstract PDF
Ben Goldsmith 80-89
Career Playwrights: Working Women Dramatists, 1928-1968 Abstract PDF
Michelle Arrow 90-97
Marcus Clarke, Gustave Dore and the Mystery of the Popular Abstract PDF
Andrew McCann 101-109
The Devil and James McAuley: the Making of a Cold War Warrior Abstract PDF
Cassandra Pybus 110-123
Christina Stead's Satire and the Public Sphere Abstract PDF
Anne Pender 124-131
Becoming 'Elizabeth Jolley': The First Twenty Years in Australia Abstract PDF
Barbara Milech 132-141
Discourses of Vocation in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda Abstract PDF
Lyn McCredden 142-150
Build the Author, Sell the Book: Marketing the Australian Author in the 1990s Abstract PDF
Anne Galligan 151-159
The Uses of Whiteness Theory in Critical Discourses of Race Abstract PDF
Carole Ferrier 163-171
Canonising Queer: From Hal to Dorothy Abstract PDF
Leigh Dale 172-184
'Sinister Signs of Professionalism'? Literary Gang Warfare in the 1950s and 60s Abstract PDF
Christopher Lee 187-193
Deregulating the Critical Economy: Theory and Australian Literary Criticism in the 1980s Abstract PDF
Robert Dixon 194-201
Around 1985: Australian Feminist Literary Criticism and its 'Foreign Bodies' Abstract PDF
Delys Bird 202-209

Appendices

List of Papers Presented at the 1998 ASAL Conference, Empire Theatre, Toowoomba 3-7 July 1998 PDF
Alison Bartlett 210-215