The Heart of James McAuley

The Heart of James McAuley
Author: Peter Coleman
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780975801567

'The Heart of James McAuley' examines the work of the famous poet, editor, critic, and political thinker. It places the poetry in its biographical context - from his anarchistic and avant-garde youth to the libertarian conservative and Catholic convert of later years. It takes a new look at the great Ern Malley hoax, his profound essays on the decolonization of New Guinea, his association with such major figures as B.A. Santamaria and Sir John Kerr, his involvement with the Industrial Groups in the ALP and with the DLP, his founding of the magazine Quadrant, and his response to a number of controversies from the CIA scandals to the New Left assaults on the universities. No other biography of McAuley encompasses all the wide-ranging activities of this great poet.

The House of Fragile Things

The House of Fragile Things
Author: James McAuley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300252544

A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.

The Devil and James McAuley

The Devil and James McAuley
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780702231117

Follows McAuley's life from his student days at Sydney Uni through the war years, his conversion to Catholicism, his anticommunist activities during the Cold War period, and his editorship of Quadrant, with revelations about CIA funding and involvement with ASIO. A controversial new political biography.

Twilight of the Elites

Twilight of the Elites
Author: Christophe Guilluy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300240821

A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

A Question of Commitment

A Question of Commitment
Author: Susan Lever
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000248070

In the years since the Second World War, Australia has seen a period of literary creativity which outshines any earlier period in the nation's literary history. This creativity has its beginnings in the arguments and alignments which emerged at the end of the War, and the changes in perceptions of art and society which occurred during the fifties and early sixties. A Question of Commitment examines the attitudes of writers as diverse as James McAuley, Frank Hardy, Judith Wright, Patrick White and A. D. Hope, as they responded to a changing Australian society during the postwar years. Through their work and that of many others, it considers the debates about literary nationalism, the artistic politics of the Cold War, the threat of technology to art in the Atomic Age, and the nature of the writer's role in the new society. It documents the way in which the political commitments of some writers and the resistance to commitment of others were challenged by political and social changes of the late fifties. Susan McKernan's lively exploration of Australia's writers in a time of innovation provides the reader with the context needed to understand the creative choices they made and, in so doing, introduces wider intellectual and cultural issues which remain relevant to this day.

The Modern Hercules

The Modern Hercules
Author: Alastair J.L. Blanshard
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004440062

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Australian Poetry

Australian Poetry
Author: Paul Kane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521438247

This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.

Writing in Hope and Fear

Writing in Hope and Fear
Author: John McLaren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521567565

A compelling critical and historical account of politics in postwar Australian literary culture.

The End of Modernity

The End of Modernity
Author: James Phillip McAuley
Publisher: [Sydney] : Angus and Robertson
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1959
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2713
Release: 2004-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134468474

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.