Oxford University Press
The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal
by Robert Holden •
John Hanrahan reviews 'A.D. Hope' by Kevin Hart, 'James McAuley' by Lyn McCredden, 'Peter Porter' by Peter Steele, 'Reconnoitres' edited by Margaret Harris & Elizabeth Webby, 'Annals of Australian Literature' edited by Joy Hooton & Harry Heseltine
by John Hanrahan •
Oxford University Press has begun a welcome series called Australian Writers. Two further titles, Imre Salusinszky on Gerald Murnane and Ivor Indyk on David Malouf, will appear in March 1993, and eleven more books are in preparation. Though I find the first three uneven in quality, they make a very promising start to a series. In some ways they resemble Oliver and Boyd’s excellent series, Writers and Critics, even being of about the same length. However this new series is less elementary, more demanding of the reader. It is, predictably, far sparser in critical evaluation, concentrating on hermeneutics, and biographical information is as rare as a wombat waltz.
... (read more)The Annotated Such is Life by Joseph Furby & The Life and Opinions of Tom Collins by Julian Croft
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
Life Among the Scientists: An anthropological study of an Australian scientific community by Max Charlesworth, Lyndsay Farrall, Terry Stokes and David Turnbull
by Damien Broderick •
The Critic as Advocate: Selected essays 1941–1988 by Bernard Smith
by Heather Johnson •
The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian society by Graham Seal
by Robin Gerster •
Strong Leadership: Thatcher, Reagan and an eminent person by Graham Little
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
Woman Herself: A transdisciplinary perspective on women’s identity by Robyn Rowland
by Terry Threadgold •
The Australian National Dictionary: Australian words and their origins by W.S. Ramson
by Jack Hibberd •
The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour edited by Michael Sharkey
by Patrick Cook •