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

Preliminary pages

Foreword
Fran De Groen, Ken Stewart
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Articles

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