Stephen Muecke

Landprints: Reflections on place and landscape by George Seddon

September 1997, no. 194

George Seddon is well-known as an environmentalist and academic. Western Australian readers will remember in particular his Sense of Place (1972). He is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia and Emeritus Professor in Environmental Science at the University of Melbourne.

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Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and cultural studies by Stephen Muecke

by David Goodman •

December 1992, no. 147

David Goodman reviews 'Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and cultural studies' by Stephen Muecke

Stephen Muecke’s Textual Spaces offers both new material and versions of some of the essays he has published on Aboriginal and cultural studies published through the 1980s. Many of these have already been very influential, but the welcome appearance of the book invites consideration of the continuities in Muecke’s arguments, the programme they suggest.

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Letters to the Editor – April 1991

by Sneja Gunew, George Papaellinas, Stephen Muecke, Brian Castro, Morag Loh, Maria Lewitt, Serge Liberman •

April 1991, no. 129

In last month’s Telecom Australian Voices essay, Robert Dessaix discussed the ways in which multiculturalism divides up the Australian literary scene, concluding that “in a word, it’s time our multicultural professionals stopped marginalising multicultural writers”. The response of Sneja Gunew, who was quoted in that essay, is printed in its entirety here, along with other letters prompted by the essay.

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The Reader’s Construction of Narrative by Horst Ruthrof

by Stephen Muecke •

June 1982, no. 41

Stephen Muecke reviews 'The Reader’s Construction of Narrative' by Horst Ruthrof

Literary theory is in for an exciting time in Australia. While the Leavisites in the older English departments were wondering what happened to the British ‘Great Tradition’, literary studies went General and Comparative in the 1960s, establishing a fertile context for the development of genuine theoretical developments such as those brought about by the encounter with structuralism, phenomenology and Marxism.

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