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Surveillance and slander : Eleanor Dark in the 1940s and 1950s
No full textExamines the effects of national surveillance and local right-wing intimidation on the literary works of author Eleanor Dark during the 1940s and 1950s in Australia. Reason Dark was subjected to national surveillance and right-wing intimidation; Relationship of Dark with local and national security forces; Accusations against the Dark family; Censorship faced by writers
A girl's guide to Modernism's grammar : language politics in experimental women's fiction
No full textSeeking a life in the literary position : the writing of Charmian Clift
No full textAn examination of the published and unpublished writing of Charmian Clift
Seeking a life in the literary position : the writing of Charmian Clift
No full textThis dissertation is an investigation into and analysis of the literary output of the Australian writer, Charmian Clift. It attempts, primarily, a critical discussion of the novels, short stories and journalism that form the body of Clift's own published and unpublished work. Because of the emphasis in thest texts on the role of women in society, I also assess the changing nature of the reception of Clift's work and its contribution to Australian women's writing.\ud
Clift has yet to be generally acknowledged as a writer of substance, yet her work has much to say about the issues which were, and are, important to women's writing. To date, Clift's writing has been discussed in terms of her role as a popular columnist and 'travel writer,' or of her life story--what has become known as the 'Clift phenomenon,' that is, biographically-based commentary which features her role as a flamboyant and bohemain personality who was the wife or writer George Johnston. The result is that Clift has largely been discussed within the boundaries of this 'persona' in the popular press; she has not received similar critical attention to Johnston. \ud
As the outpouring of feeling on the news of Clift's death vividly indicated, she had developed a loyal readership. This readership did not dissipate with her death and is, in fact, being consolidated with reissues of her work. To a large extent, therefore, this dissertation is an attempt to assert Clift's literary contribution and to push away the constraints of a pre-existing tendency to a biographical focus on her work.\ud
To do this I concentrate on the solo-authored published and unpublished texts, referring only to the collaborative works written with Johnston when this is helpful to an analysis of the solo-authored texts. The issue of collaboration, and the related aspect of inter-textuality, requires a detailed analysis of George Johnston's work as well, an interesting project but one which is beyond the scope of this dissertation. I therefore examine the collaborative work only in terms of my overall aim of development of Clift's own 'writing self.' To do this I employ insights from feminist and other literary theory in order to develop a flexible enough framework in which to assess the diverse range of writing produced by Clift.\ud
I discuss the texts in terms of the notion of inversion of 'fact as fiction' and 'fiction as fact,' in order to gain access to the different levels of Clift's work. I also note the evolution of Clift's work, culminating in the autobiographical fiction of her unpublished texts. These texts, written at the end of her career, represent the beginnings of Clift's best work--writing in which she had begun to speak in 'her own voice.' Had this progress contiued, Clift would, I maintain, have received the critical attention she so dearly desired
Risky business : managing creative practice postgraduates through HDR programs
No full textIn Australia, as elsewhere, universities are being encouraged to grow their postgraduate research candidature base while at the same time there is increasing pressure on resources with which to manage the burgeoning groups. In this environment HDR supervision strategies are seen as increasingly important as research managers seek the best possible ‘fit’ for an applicant: the candidate who will provide a sound return on investment and demonstrate endurance in the pursuit of a timely completion. \ud
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As research managers know, the admissions process can be a risky business. The process may be tested further in the context of the new models of doctoral cohort supervision that are being discussed in the higher degree research management sector. The focus of this paper is an examination of the results of investigations of two models of postgraduate cohort supervision in the creative arts Master of Arts research program at QUT with a view to identifying attributes that may be useful for the formation of cohort models of supervision in the doctoral area.\u
Finding hy-Brazil : eugenics and modernism in the Pacific
No full textIn the 1930s a number of Australian women writers took issue with material and symbolic aspects of public health discourse and in particular challenged institutional endorsement of eugenicist movements. This paper discusses the response of inter-war women writers to the national discussion of science and medicine and, in particular, eugenics
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