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LISTS AND LABELS COMPILED BY J. L. HERRERA DEDICATED TO: My mother-in-law Aida de Pastenes Coronado And with Thanks to: Ellen Naef, Cheryl Perriman, Patrick Herrera, Isla MacGregor, Ken Carroll, Brenda Dudkowiak, Karen Tian, Julio Herrera, Louise Byrne and Chris and Janet at the Hobart Book Shop INTRODUCTION One day I was browsing in a box of second-hand books and the majority of them seemed to be of the ‘101 Things to…Insert: Do, Read, Eat, See, Feel, Watch…Before You Die’ type. I gave up and went away. I don’t need anyone to tell me what to read. And as I don’t know whether I am going to die next week or in thirty years time it hardly seems relevant. If next week I would rather spend my time reading some old favourites. If in thirty years who knows what books I will feel passionate about in that time—or even just mildly curious about. And when it gets to 1001 Movies to Watch I begin to feel there wouldn’t be any life outside the watching … But the thing which jumped out at me was just how ubiquitous such books of lists have become. Is this the way of the future? I like to put things down neatly as a way of organizing a chaotic mind, things to be done before, things to be bought, things I said I would do and haven’t … but that is everyday life, I don’t want that sort of bloodless logic to take over the wonderful anarchic way I go about my reading. -
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lP)(CllttlF~<clk ~vlhtILtt<e (Clunl<dl ttlhl<e (GrlF<e(Clut <C lQ)(dl<e <odf lH[ <e llll <e lnllL§ lom Vrasidas Karalis I: The problematic of the Great Code This study deals with three questions; first with Patrick White as a writer, with his aesthetic vision and meta-aesthetical conclusions. Second, with the art of the Great Code as the regulating aesthetic principle of self awareness within a given culture. Finally, with the idea of Hellenism, as a historical tradition articulating a corpus of meanings, employed in this case by Patrick White in order to make his artistic universe coherent, as both an intra-textual and extra-textual experience at a specific historical situation. All three questions are intertwined within the overarching cultural epoch which White belonged to and by the social energy he was permeated by. As part of the post-war re-building proccss, White's artistic project was to create a "prismatic" mythology out of the historical memory and the social realities of Australia, especially after 1955, a mythology able to offer, in ideational forms and patterns of discourse, symbols of existential identification and cultural emancipation for his Australian readers. In this, White was not alone. The Australian quest, going back to 1890s, for a distinct cultural identity, however, took a different orientation after White established a microcosm of literary personae with universal relevance starting especially with The Tree of Man and Voss. White universalised Australia, by transposing the episodic and re-configuring the specific so that they became parts of a grand mythopoetic synthesis in his attempt to answer crucial problems of human life and thought from within the Australian experience. -
Friends Newsletter
FRIENDS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2012 From ‘Ayam-Ayam Kesayangan’ (Donald Friend Diaries: MS 5959) Manuscripts Collection MS 5959) Manuscripts (Donald Friend Diaries: Kesayangan’ ‘Ayam-Ayam From Shoppers at Night, Bondi Junction Mall Shoppers Donald Friend (1915–1989) Friends of the National Library of Australia Inc. Canberra ACT 2600 Telephone: 02 6262 1698 Fax: 02 6273 4493 Email: [email protected] 1 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Dear Friends As usual, the Friends calendar for the next few months features a number of interesting and informative events and activities. As I was pleased to advise in our last newsletter, distinguished Australian journalist Kerry O’Brien has agreed to deliver the 2012 Kenneth Myer Lecture. The date of the Lecture has now been set for Tuesday 31 July at 6m in the Library Theatre. Kerry will speak on the topic, In an age awash with information, how easily we forget the past. Gary Kent The 2012 Friends White Gloves Event, scheduled for 28 June, will be a little different from those we have held previously. This year, rather than focusing on a particular aspect of the Library’s collection, the topic will be Conserving Collections. The Library’s conservators will provide advice and information on caring for paper based collections. This event is sure to be popular so book early. Many of you will be familiar with the work of John Lewin (1770-1819). He played a formative and pivotal role in the development of Australian art. According to art critic Robert Hughes, Lewin was the first to record the distinct ‘look’ of Australia without being blinded by European art conventions. -
Is Patrick White a Greek Author?
‘Greece—Patrick White’s Country’: Is Patrick White a Greek Author? SHAUN BELL University of New South Wales When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. Tuli Kupferberg In a 1973 interview shown on Four Corners the morning after the Nobel Prize announcement, Mike Charlton questions Patrick White on his formative time in England and wonders how he managed to make his novels so ‘Australian.’ White replies, ‘Because it is in my blood . my heart isn’t altogether here, I think my heart is in London but my blood is Australian.’ White had made other such public declarations of affiliation, claiming he did ‘better with the exotics’ in his autobiography Flaws in the Glass (1981) and naming ‘his elective Greece’ as ‘his other country’ (1989).1 Drawn from diverse contexts, the multiplicity and contradiction of these utterances speak nonetheless to a self-invention: White’s declarations of belonging are complex rhetoric deployed by a masterful performer of multiple personae. When read in light of the complicating potential of the diverse paratextual accounts of White’s life and times, these statements draw our attention to what Brigid Rooney has argued is White’s ‘irascible yet famously public personae . [as] a script he performed, and that performed him, in public life’ (Rooney, ‘Public Recluse’ 4). This essay takes up Rooney’s account of White’s capacity for self-production and self-complication, considering the generative possibility of extending White’s declaration of Greek affiliation as a productive avenue for engaging with his literature. Drawing on an earlier and now largely dormant body of critical readings focused on identifying the Greek objects, entities and moments found across White’s oeuvre, this essay works to reveal the ghosted origin of these Hellenistic, Byzantine, Orthodox and Anatolian referents and allusions. -
Kerry Walker, Patrick White and the Faces of Australian Modernism
Coolabah, No.9, 2012, ISSN 1988-5946, Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona Kerry Walker, Patrick White and the Faces of Australian Modernism Anne Pender Copyright © Anne Pender 2012 This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged The paper brings together two of Bruce Bennett’s enduring interests: Australian modernist drama, and the life and work of Patrick White Abstract This essay considers the work of Australian actor Kerry Walker (b. 1948) in the years 1977-1989. It focuses on Walker’s acting style in the roles she played in a variety of works by Patrick White, her approach to acting and her enduring friendship with White. It seeks to document the specific qualities Walker brought to her performances in White’s plays and to explain her distinctive understanding of White’s drama. Kerry Walker has been described as a ‘theatre animal with a seemingly effortless knack of drawing the audience’s gaze to her’ (2009). Yet when she graduated from NIDA in 1974 she was told she would not succeed as an actor because of her looks. It is almost impossible to imagine this comment from the distance of 2012, especially given the transformations she produces as an actor within one role, as well as the range of roles she has essayed over her long career. In spite of the discouraging comment about her looks upon finishing her studies, Walker has had an extraordinary career and is one of the most interesting actors to have contributed to Australian theatre, film and television over the last forty years. -
AAIA Bulletin
Volume 1, 2003 The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens BULLETIN Volume 1, 2003 The AAIA Bulletin TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Director Letter from the Director 2 OBITUARY: JOHN ATHERTON YOUNG I am writing this letter satisfied that the Institute’s activities continue by Arthur Conigrave 4 unabated in spite of my own personal health problems and in spite of the death John Atherton Young - Memorial speech by Stephen Garton 7 of our generous and hard-working Treasurer, Professor J.A. Young. ACTIVITIES IN GREECE Deputy Director’s Report from Athens 10 The Fellowship for the European Academic Year 2003-2004, which Museums and Exhibitions in Greece 11 is at present awarded biennially, went to Mr Matthew McCallum, and my The Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey 2003 16 understanding is that his research in Athens is progressing satisfactorily. Also The 2003 Torone Study Season 20 in 2003 five scholarships were awarded to students that needed to do research FEATURE ARTICLES Eastern Anatolia during the Time of in Greece as follows: Mr Mark Thomson (Australian National University), Mr Xenophon Andrew Sim (University of Melbourne), Ms Miriam Riverlea (University of by Claudia Sagona and Antonio Sagona 23 The Red-figured Pottery from Torone Melbourne), Ms Susan Philips (University of Queensland) and Mr Nicholas by Ian McPhee 33 Vlachos (University of Sydney). A Terone Tetradrachm: New Acquisition of the Nicholson Museum 37 ACTIVITIES IN AUSTRAILA An important event during 2003 was the joining of Cranbrook School The Visiting Professorship 38 in Sydney as an Institutional Member, which was made possible through the Significant Donations 38 The Institutional, Corporate Members & generosity of Mr Timothy Harding. -
Proquest Dissertations
BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE BUSH: SUBURBIA IN THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN NOVEL by Nathanael David O'Reilly A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of English Dr. Gwen Tarbox, Advisor Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan June 2008 UMI Number: 3316930 Copyright 2008 by O'Reilly, Nathanael David All rights reserved. INFORMATION TO USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleed-through, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. ® UMI UMI Microform 3316930 Copyright 2008 by ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway PO Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Date. May 22, 2008 WE HEREBY APPROVE THE DISSERTATION SUBMITTED BY Nathanael David O'Reilly ENTITLED Between the City and the Bush: Suburbia in the Contemporary Australian Novel AS PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Doctor of Philosophy English \aA?y^ (Department) English (Program) Allen Webb, Ph.D. Dissertation Review Committee Member Todd Kuchta, Ph.D. Dissertation Review Committee Member Nicholas Birns, Ph.D. Dissertation Review Committee Member APPROVED 9t+i Date QtMU Z.%,%£>0$ Dean of The Graduate College Copyright by Nathanael David O'Reilly 2008 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my deepest appreciation to my dissertation committee: Dr.