Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 Book

	A Note on the Text
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	An Australian Literary Criticism: The 1950s and 1960s	1
	Standards in Australian Literature (1956)	3
	Conflicts in Australian Intellectual Life 1940-1964 (1966)	6
	Criticism and the Universities (1970)	10
	My Problems of Writing (1953)	15
	Towards an 'Inside Narrative' (1969)	18
	A Lost Tradition? (1954)	23
	The Cultural Cringe (1958)	28
	Utopianism and Vitalism in Australian Literature (1958-9)	32
	The Literary Heritage (1962)	37
	The Image of Reality in Our Writing (1963)	43
	Who Wrote the Ballads (1963)	47
	Australian Literary Criticism (1962)	49
	On Australian Literary Criticism edited by Grahame Johnston (1963)	53
	Australian Literature in 1962 (1963)	56
	On A History of Australian Literature by H. M. Green (1962)	59
	On A History of Australian Literature by H. M. Green (1962)	60
	On The Literature of Australian edited by Geoffrey Dutton (1965)	63
	Charles Harpur (1965)	65
Pt. 2	Consolidation and New Directions: the 1970s	71
	Criticism and the Individual Talent (1972)	73
	Australian Literature and the Universities (1976)	76
	Basics of a Radical Criticism (1979)	80
	On Decay and Renewal by Jack Lindsay (1978)	83
	On the New Literatures in English (1978)	86
	The New Australian Poetry (1979)	89
	Mother I'm Rooted (1975)	95
	On Mother I'm Rooted edited by Kate Jennings (1975)	98
	The Most Beautiful Lies (1977)	101
	On Social Patterns in Australian Literature by T. Inglis Moore (1972)	103
	Images of Society in Australian Criticism (1973)	106
	Literature, History and Literary History (1976)	111
	'The Scope of Women's Thought Is Necessarily Less' (1972)	113
	Feminists and Socialists (1975)	116
	Literature and the Aborigine in Australian (1978)	118
	English Literature in Early Australia: 1830-1839 (1976)	121
	The Colonial Literati in Sydney and Melbourne (1982)	128
Pt. 3	Asserting the Present: the 1980s	135
	Round & Round the Looking Glass (1980)	137
	Practice Without Theory (1982)	139
	Texts and Contexts (1986)	148
	The Post-colonial Re-vision of Australian Literature (1989)	151
	Conditioning Critics (1984)	153
	Reading Australian Poetry (1987)	158
	New Passports for Poets (1987)	164
	In the Beginning Was the 'Word' (1987)	166
	National Fictions (1986)	168
	The Native Are Getting Restless (1986)	174
	University Teaching of Australian Literature (1979)	178
	Towards an Australian Literary Theory (1979)	183
	Australian Women Writers and Literary Nationalism (1986)	186
	The History That Is Not History (1981)	194
	Textual Politics (1982)	197
	The Penguin New Literary History of Australian (1988)	200
	Biography as Social Knowledge (1989)	203
	On Women and the Bush by Kay Schaffer (1989)	208
	Postmodernism and History (1990)	211
	Who Should Control Aboriginal Writing? (1983)	214
	Who's on Whose Margins? (1983)	216
	On Who Is She? edited by Shirley Walker and Gender, Politics and Fiction edited by Carole Ferrier (1985)	220
	Reading Recent Australian Women's Fiction (1987)	223
	Aboriginality, Landscape and the Imagination (1989)	229
	Woman as 'The Chosen Vessel' (1983)	234
	Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women's Fiction (1983)	239
	Narrative Structure (1983)	244
	Mateship, Individualism and the Production of Character (1984)	249
	Deconstructive Reading (1985)	254
	Narrative Form and Ideology (1986)	258
Pt. 4	Past and Future: the 1990s	265
	Australian Feminist Literary History (1993)	267
	Writing After Winning (1995)	275
	Moral Authoritarianism and The Hand That Signed the Paper (1995-96)	277
	Ethics and Criticism (1995)	282
	Before, During and After The First Stone (1996)	287
	Helen Garner's The First Stone (1997)	291
	Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (1999)	296
	Black Australian Writings (1990)	305
	Recent Australian Autobiography (1992)	308
	Cultural History, Literary History and Literary Criticism (1990)	314
	Gender, Boundary and Frontier (1992)	318
	On Along the Faultlines by Susan Sheridan and Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon (1996)	325
	Writing and Commodity Capitalism (1996)	329
	The University versus the People (1997)	341
	Fringe and Metropolitan (1990)	344
	How Aboriginal Is It? (1990)	347
	On Writing from the Fringe by Mudrooroo Narogin (1990)	351
	Aboriginality and Australian Culture (1992)	354
	On Framing Marginality by Sneja Gunew (1995)	359
	Are We Postcolonial Yet? (1995)	364
	Australian Working Class Literature (1997)	369
	Canonising Queer (1999)	372
	Select Bibliography	379
	Index	389