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The Journal Arts

SUAA Members receive copies of the Association’s journal, Arts.

Volume 29 (2007) is now available. The volume contains:
Editorial
Geraldine Barnes,’ Meeting the Medieval Monstrous: An Australian Perspective’
Ken Dutton, ‘The History of a Detection: A Most Unusual Volume and the Search for its Authorship’
Helen Dunstan, ‘A Chinese Lesson for New Orleans (and elsewhere)’
Paul Redding, ‘Idealism: A Love (of Sophia) that Dare not Speak its Name’
Mark Colyvan, ‘Environmental Philosophy: Beyond Environmental Ethics’
Robert Winter, ‘Comedy is a Serious Business’

Also reviews of: William Christie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Literary Life (by Geoffrey Little); and
Margaret Sankey, ed. Abbé Jean Paulmier, Mémoires touchant l’établissement chrestienne dans le troisième monde (by Wallace Kirsop)


Volume 28 (2006) contains the following articles:
Eric Csapo, ' Cockfights, Contradictions, and the Mythopoetics of Ancient Greek Culture'
Christa Knellwolff, 'Narratives of Empire: Exploration Literature and the Colonial Aspirations of Enlightenment Europe'
Agnes Heller, 'What is "Post-Modernism"?: A Quarter of a Century After'
Robert Aldrich, 'Coming to terms with the Colonial Past: the French and Others'
Margaret C Miller, 'Orientalism and Ornamentalism: Athenian Reactions to Achaemenid Persia' .
With poems by Noel Rowe, 'Lazarus', and Rosemary Huisman, 'Looking with dispassionate eyes'

Also reviews of: Margaret Harris, Dearest Munx: the Letter of Christina Stead and William J Blake (by Michael Wilding); and
Christopher Hilliard, To Exercise our Talents: the Democratisation of Writing in Britain (by Geoffrey Little)


Volume 27 (2005) contains the following articles:
Walther Ludwig, 'Astrology in Antiquity, in the Renaissance, and Today
Gay McAuley, ' Site-specific Performances: Place, Memory, and the Creative Agency of the Spectator'
William Christie, ' To His Coy Waistress' (Poem)
Roslyn Pesman, 'Of Machiavelli, Mazzini, and Many Things'
Kate Grenville, 'The Writing of The Sacred River'
Penny Gay, '"So Persuasive an Eloquence?" Roles for Women on the Eighteenth-Century Stage'

With reviews of: Stephen Garton, Histories of Sexuality (by John Edmonds); and Richard Waterhouse, The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia (by Elizabeth Webby)


Volume 26 (2004) contains articles by Ken Dutton, Shane White, Elizabeth Webby, Robert Winter, Elspeth Probyn and Denise Yim.


Volume 25 (2003) contains contributions by Moira Gatens, Margaret Sankey, John Clark, William Christie, Michael Nelson and Jim Nicholls, together with full reports on the Association's special Fiftieth Anniversary events in 2003, covering the past, present and future of the Faculty of Arts.


Volume 24 (2002) contains articles by Leonie Kramer, Margaret Harris, Anne Boyd, Bill Peach, Richard Waterhouse, Nerida Newbigin and Robert Winter, together with a poem by Vivian Smith, and a report on Association activities by Geoffrey Little.


Volume 23 (2001) includes contributions by Giovanni Carsaniga, Diane Austin-Broos, Stephen Garton, Barry Spurr, Catherine Runcie, Terry Smith and Anne Dunn, as well as a poem by Noel Rowe.


Copies are available to new members at the special price of $20 (a third off the normal price to non-members). See the membership form on this website.

For other back numbers and with proposals for articles, contact the Editor:

  • Associate Professor Geoffrey Little
    Department of English
    Woolley Building A20
    University of Sydney, NSW 2006.
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