Associate Professor David G Brooks

BA A.N.U. MA PhD Tor.
david.brooks@arts.usyd.edu.au
+61 2 9351 2569

• Australian Literary Studies

• A study and (with J.A. Scott and G. Halligan) translation of the works of Adoré Floupette and their relation to the Ern Malley Hoax.
• re-reading Australia Poetry: new light on canonical Australian poems.
• An examination of the origins of modernism in New Guinea, the Trobriand Islands, and the Great Western Desert.

Books

• The Cold Front (poetry). Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983.
• (edited with B. Walker)Poetry and Gender. St. Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press, 1989.
• The Book of Sei and Other Stories. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1985.
• The Book of Sei. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
• Sheep and the Diva (stories). Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1990.
• The Necessary Jungle: Literature and Excess (essays). Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1990.
• ed. A.D. Hope: Selected Poems. Sydney: HarperCollins/A&R, 1991.
• ed. Suddenly Evening: Selected Poems of R.F. Brissenden. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1991.
• The House of Balthus (fiction). Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995.
• Black Sea (short fiction). Sydney: Allen & Unwin (in press).
• ed. The Double Looking Glass: New and Classic Essays on the Poetry of A. D. Hope. St Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press, 2000.
• ed. Selected Poetry and Prose of A. D. Hope. Sydney: Halstead Press, 2000.
• De/scription (essay). Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2000.
• Walking to Point Clear (poetry). Blackheath: Brandle & Schlesinger, 2005.
• Urban Elegies (poetry). Sydney: Island Press, 2006.

Articles

• "Modernism" (essay), in Kelsall et al eds., Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. London: Routledge, pp. 119-30. 1990.
• "The French Connection: Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes," in Security of Allusion: Essays in Honour of A.D. Hope. Canberra: Phoenix Review, 83-100. 1991.
• "Feral Symbolists: Robert Adamson, John Tranter, and the Response to Rimbaud," Australian Literary Studies 16/3: 280-88. 1994.
• "The Wheel, the Mirror and the Tower: Desire in the Writings of Dorothy Hewett," in B. Bennett ed., Dorothy Hewett: Selected Critical Essays. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, pp. 180-201. 1995.
• "Scheherezade - the Search for Story: Recent Australian Fiction Set in China and Southeast Asia", Southerly 59.3/4, 1999.
• "A. D. Hope and the Symbolistes", in Australian Divagations: Mallarme and the 20th Century. Jill Anderson ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
• "The Jewelled Box: Translating Mallarmes 'Sonnet en Yx'", Southerly 63.1. 2003.
• "Napoleon's Roads", The Kenyon Review 25.3/4. 2003.
• "Poetry and Dismemberment", The Chautaugau Review 1.1. 2004.
• "The Australian Line", [Agenda 41.1/2. 2005.

Teaching

• Twentieth-century poetry and poetics
• English literary modernism 1880-1920
• Australian Literature (modern/contemporary)
• Comparative Literature
• Creative Writing

Specific Topics

• Ezra Pound; twentieth-century Australian poetry and poetics
• Australian poetry and the Symbolistes
• Australian contexts and applications of contemporary critical theory
• Australian literature and South East Asia.
• History and theory of the literary hoax.