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6 results in Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series

Patrick White Beyond the Grave
  • New Critical Perspectives
  • Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2018
    Print publication:
    15 August 2015
  • Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia's most celebrated writers. In 2006, White's literary executor, Barbara Mobbs, released a highly significant collection of hitherto unpublished papers, reviving mainstream and scholarly interest in his work. 'Patrick White Beyond the Grave' considers White's writing in light of the new findings, acknowledging his homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, examining the way he engages his readers, and contextualizing his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life. Thought-provoking, this collection of original essays represents the work of an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe, and will no doubt inspire further work on White from a rising generation of scholars of twentieth-century literature beyond Australia.

Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
  • Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
  • Andrew McCann
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2018
    Print publication:
    15 June 2015
  • Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These terms 'recognition, commercial success, political engagement' suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas's fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. 'Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique' traces these contradictions against Tsiolkas's acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.

Performing Noncitizenship
  • Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
  • Emma Cox
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    01 May 2015
  • This exacting study examines the theatre, film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of 'irregular' noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life, to the extent that it has become impossible to imagine what Australia means without it.

Inside Australian Culture
  • Legacies of Enlightenment Values
  • Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell, Kirsten Pavlovic, Ashis Nandy, Vinay Lal
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    01 July 2014
  • 'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.

Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970
  • The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom
  • Jason D. Ensor
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    15 December 2012
  • 'Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930-1970' traces the history of the printed book in Australia, particularly the production and business context that mediated Australia's literary and cultural ties to Britain for much of the twentieth century. This study focuses on the London operations of one of Australia's premier book publishers of the twentieth century: Angus & Robertson. The book argues that despite the obvious limitations of a British-dominated market, Australian publishers had room to manoeuvre in it. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom. This book is the answer to the current void in the literary market for a substantial history of Australia's largest publisher and its role in the development of Australia's export book trade.

Australian Patriography
  • How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing
  • Stephen Mansfield
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    15 May 2013
  • The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. [NP] This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.