- 663 pages
- English
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About this book
Telling Stories explores the interaction between literary culture and the public sphere in Australia, in a chronological series of informative, witty, intelligent and thought-provoking essays. In doing so it unearths the fascinating and changing role that literature has played in Australia's sporting, political, civic and cultural life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Imprint page and copyright information
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1935: Literary possibilities of flight
- 1936: From Texas to Tamworth via New Zealand
- 1936: Portals to the New World
- 1937: "This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped"
- 1938: The most literary yet
- 1939: Bloodlines
- 1939: Ringing out
- 1940: Style, modernity and popular magazines
- 1940: Unfounded attack on "Dad and Dave" comedies
- 1941: Rowing on the radio
- 1942: A fascinating kaleidoscope
- 1943: Invisible, unacknowledged, but ubiquitous
- 1943: American servicemen find Ernestine Hill in their kitbags
- 1944: Politics and policing
- 1945: Canine 1: Bureaucracy 0
- 1946: "And who the hell are you?"
- 1947: On love, war and literary life
- 1948: Slumming it
- 1949: Not suitable for children
- 1950: When the Earth cries out
- 1951: Nuts on wine
- 1952: The all-singing, all-dancing bloke
- 1953: Reading bareback
- 1954: Surfing the yellow wave
- 1955: Uncivil aviation
- 1956: Poetry and confessing
- 1957: 'The Catcher in the Rye' gets caught in the net
- 1957: Patrick White and the American middlebrow
- 1958: Beating around the bush
- 1958: Coming down to Earth
- 1958: Stretching out in all directions
- 1959: Loving Europe
- 1961: Conversation, collaboration, assimilation
- 1962: Making a good nation
- 1962: Six pack
- 1963: Between the motion and the act
- 1964: Mary Poppins, film star
- 1965: Putting the Asia in Australasia
- 1966: Laying ghosts as well as roads
- 1967: Scaling the rock
- 1968: A Margaret Fulton recipe always works
- 1969: Australian journalist rocks New York
- 1970/1: Sensational sexualities
- Images
- 1973: "Not while my cat's alive!"
- 1974: Ned Kelly resurrected in song
- 1975: Jerramungup dreaming
- 1976: Grace abounding
- 1977: Behaving badly
- 1978: From Khe Sanh to the Caribbean
- 1979: Generations of women poets
- 1980: Love and lust at Uluru
- 1981: On and off the beach
- 1982: Publishing in the Big Apple
- 1982: Pre-'Mabo' popular song
- 1983: The High Court decides
- 1984/5: The great tradition
- 1985: Temper democratic, bias offensively un-Australian
- 1985: Lost in the media
- 1986: Joining the dots
- 1987: Our cup runneth over
- 1988: Re-viewing history
- 1989: The year the dragon came
- 1990: "God let us be serious"
- 1991: I don't give a fuck
- 1992: Imagine
- 1993: Bad memories
- 1994: "The world's Australian anthem"
- 1996: A rocky, downward slide
- 1997: Stolen stories returned
- 1998: Writers as public intellectuals
- 1999: "We the people of Australia"
- 2000: Exhibiting Australia
- 2000: A short letter and a long march
- 2002: One book, two books; one city, many cities
- 2003: Home and away
- 2005: 'Slow Man' overboard
- 2006: Silence speaks
- 2007: The musical Australia had to have
- 2008: Saying sorry
- 2008: Globalised fiction becomes a fact
- 2009: Selling an Australian Cinderella
- 2009: Your acting's like the end of the world
- 2010: Stamps of approval
- 2012: Grey skies over Melbourne
- Appendix A
- Contributors
- Pathways
- Names Index
- Back Cover