Authority^/ Influence Australian literary criticism 1950 2000 Edited by Delys Bird * Robert Dixon Christopher Lee University of Queensland Press
Contents A Note on the Text Acknowledgments Introduction xiii x xi PART 1 AN AUSTRALIAN LITERARY CRITICISM: THE 1950s AND 1960s 1 A. D. HOPE Standards in Australian Literature (1956) 3 MAX HARRIS Conflicts in Australian Intellectual Life 1940-1964 (1966) 6 H. P. HESELTINE Criticism and the Universities (1970) 10 Looking abroad FRANK HARDY My Problems of Writing (1953) 15 H. P. HESELTINE Towards an 'Inside Narrative' (1969) 18 A national literary studies? VANCE PALMER A Lost Tradition? (1954) 23 A.A.PHILLIPS The Cultural Cringe (1958) 28 VINCENT BUCKLEY Utopianism and Vitalism in Australian Literature (1958-9) 32 H. P. HESELTINE The Literary Heritage (1962) 37 JOHN MCLAREN The Image of Reality in Our Writing (1963) 43 J.S. MANIFOLD Who Wrote the Ballads (1963) 47 GRAHAME JOHNSTON Australian Literary Criticism (1962) 49 DOUGLAS MUECKE On Australian Literary Criticism edited by Grahame Johnston (1963) 53 JUDAHWATEN Australian Literature in 1962 (1963) 56
vi Contents STEPHEN MURRAY-SMITH On A History of Australian Literature by H.M. Green (1962) 59 GRAHAME JOHNSTON On A History of Australian Literature by H.M. Green (1962) 60 JOHN COLMER On The Literature of Australia edited by Geoffrey Dutton (1965) 63 Theory into practice JUDITH WRIGHT Charles Harpur (1965) 65 PART 2 CONSOLIDATION AND NEW DIRECTIONS: THE 1970s 71 H. P. HESELTINE Criticism and the Individual Talent (1972) 73 BRUCE BENNETT Australian Literature and the Universities (1976) 76 MICHAEL WILDING Basics of a Radical Criticism (1979) 80 Looking abroad BRIAN KIERNAN On Decay and Renewal by Jack Lindsay (1978) 83 HELEN TIFFIN On the New Literatures in English (1978) 86 JOHN TRANTER The New Australian Poetry (1979) 89 KATE JENNINGS Mother I'm Rooted (1975) 95 CARL HARRISON-FORD On Mother I'm Rooted edited by Kate Jennings (1975) 98 BRIAN KIERNAN The Most Beautiful Lies (1977) 101 JOHN COLMER On Social Patterns in Australian Literature by T. Inglis Moore (1972) 103 HUMPHREY MCQUEEN Images of Society in Australian Criticism (1973) 106 BRIAN KIERNAN Literature,History and Literary History (1976) 111 Race, class, gender, ethnicity JILL ROE 'The Scope of Women's Thought Is Necessarily Less' (1972) 113 [CAROLE FERRIER] Feminists and Socialists (1975) 116 J.J. HEALY Literature and the Aborigine in Australia (1978) 118
Contents vii Theory into practice ELIZABETH WEBBY English Literature in Early Australia: 1830-1839 (1976) 121 KEN STEWART The Colonial Literati in Sydney and Melbourne - (1982) 128 PART 3 ASSERTING THE PRESENT: THE 1980s 135 ANNA GIBBS et al. Round & Round the Looking Glass (1980) 137 GRAEME TURNER and DELYS BIRD Practice Without Theory (1982) 139 LAURIE HERGENHAN Texts and Contexts (1986) 148 [W D] BILL ASHCROFT The Post-colonial Re-vision of Australian Literature (1989) 151 Looking abroad GREG MANNING Conditioning Critics (1984) 153 ANDREW TAYLOR Reading Australian Poetry (1987) 158 LYNMCCREDDEN New Passports for Poets (1987) 164 IMRE SALUSINSZKY In the Beginning Was the 'Word' (1987) 166 A national literary studies? GRAEME TURNER National Fictions (1986) 168 DAVID CARTER The Natives Are Getting Restless (1986) 174 JOHN DOCKER University Teaching of Australian Literature (1979) 178 W D. ASHCROFT Towards an Australian Literary Theory (1979) 183 SUSAN SHERIDAN Australian Women Writers and Literary Nationalism (1986) 186 DAVID CARTER The History That Is No History (1981) 194 JOHN FROW Textual Politics (1982) 197 LAURIE HERGENHAN The Penguin New Literary History of Australia (1988) 200 PATRICK BUCKRIDGE Biography as Social Knowledge (1989) 203 MARIAN AVELING On Women and the Bush by Kay Schaffer (1989) 208 KAY SCHAFFER Postmodernism and History (1990) 211 Race, class, gender, ethnicity ADAM SHOEMAKER Who Should Control Aboriginal Writing? (1983) 214 SNEJA GUNEW Who's on Whose Margins? (1983) 216
viii Contents DELYS BIRD On Who Is She? edited by Shirley Walker and Gender, Politics and Fiction edited by Carole Ferrier (1985) 220 BRONWEN LEVY Reading Recent Australian Women's Fiction (1987) 223 DAVID J.TACEY Aboriginality, Landscape and the Imagination (1989) 229 Theory into practice KAY ISEMAN [SCHAFFER] Woman as 'The Chosen Vessel' (1983) 234 DELYS BIRD Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women's Fiction (1983) 239 TERESA DOVEY Narrative Structure (1983) 244 GRAEME TURNER Mateship, Individualism and the Production of Character (1984) 249 ELIZABETH PERKINS Deconstructive Reading (1985) 254 ROBERT DIXON Narrative Form and Ideology (1986) 258 PART 4 PAST AND FUTURE: THE 1990s 265 SUSAN SHERIDAN Australian Feminist Literary History (1993) 267 HELEN DEMIDENKO [DARVILLE] Writing After Winning (1995) 275 PETER KIRKPATRICK Moral Authoritarianism and The Hand That Signed the Paper (1995-96) 277 JENNIFER LIVETT Ethics and Criticism (1995) 282 KERRYN GOLDSWORTHY Before, During and After The First Stone (1996) 287 MATTHEW RICKETSON Helen Garner's The First Stone (1997) 291 GRAEME TURNER Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (1999) 296 JACK DAVIS et al. Black Australian Writings (1990) 3 05 GILLIAN WHITLOCK Recent Australian Autobiography (1992) 308 SUSAN MCKERNAN [LEVER] Cultural History, Literary History and Literary Criticism (1990) 314 SUSAN K. MARTIN Gender, Boundary and Frontier (1992) 318 DAVID CARTER On Along the Faultlines by Susan Sheridan and Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon (1996) 325 ANDREW MCCANN Writing and Commodity Capitalism (1996) 329 CHRISTOPHER LEE The University versus the People (1997) 341
Contents ix Race, class, gender, ethnicity MUDROOROO NAROGIN Fringe and Metropolitan (1990) 344 SIMON DURING HOW Aboriginal Is It? (1990) 347 BOB HODGE and VIJAY MISHRA On Writingfromthe Fringe by Mudrooroo Narogin (1990) 351 GARETH GRIFFITHS Aboriginality and Australian Culture (1992) 354 TONY SIMOES DA SILVA On Framing Marginality bysnejagunew (1995) 359 SUSAN SHERIDAN AreWePostcolonialYet?(1995). 364 IAN SYSON Australian Working Class Literature (1997) 369 LEIGH DALE Canonising Queer (1999) 372 Select Bibliography 379 Index 389