World War I
Articles
- Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey
Whereas almost the entire amount of significant Australian poetry relating to the First World War had appeared in print by 1921, the bulk of the…
1 October 1971 - A Checklist of Australian Literature of World War I
The following checklist is arranged in three sections to cover published volumes of Verse (p. 148), Fiction (p. 156), and Personal Narratives (p. 159). It…
1 October 1969 - Australian Poetry of the First World War: A Survey
Australian poetry of the First World War began with a flood of patriotic verse, similar in sentiment to the verse that flowed during 1914 and…
1 May 1970 - Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter: The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War…
1 May 2009 - Letter to the Editor
ALS 23.1, with its war-related articles was, for a now 'old' (in more ways than one) Second AIF army man, a most interesting issue. The…
1 October 2008 - Arthur and Emily: A Note on a World War I Novel
In 1973, the Monash University Library acquired from the Australian bookseller Burge Lopez, a manuscript itemised as 'an anonymous unpublished typescript novel' (Arthur and…
1 May 1990 - War Poetry: Myth as De-formation and Re-formation
In his Introduction to Shadows from Wire Geoff Page remarks that 'rarely since the 1914-18 war ended has Australian interest in it been higher' and…
1 October 1985 - Lesbia Harford’s Homefront Warrior and Women’s World War I Writing
Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to…
1 May 1995 - ‘Preserving the White Race’: Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this…
1 October 1985 - ‘But who considers woman day by day?’: Australian Women Poets and World War I
Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.
1 May 2007 - Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War
Provides a bibliography of books and articles concerning Australia's involvement in various wars from the Sudan Campaign to the Vietnam War.
1 October 1985 - [Statement]
David Malouf responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…
1 October 1985 - Anzac, Literary Genre and Memory
Because of their textual brevity, poems and short stories can be written (and sometimes published) closer in time to the events which prompted them than…
1 October 1996 - A Checklist of Australian Literature of the First World War
Includes bibliographies, literary criticism, anthologies, compilations, verse, fiction, personal narratives and drama.
1 October 1985 - Greeks and Moderns: The Search for Culture in the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
THE Official History of Australia in the War of 1914- 1918 provided Australians with an opportunity to assert the significance of their history to an…
1 October 2007 - Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches 1914-1918 (France and Italy)
"I draw on evidence from French and Italian soldiers in the First World War to argue that ordinary soldiers in the trenches constituted a reading…
1 October 2014
Contributors
- Jan Bassett
- Bruce Bennett
- Donna Coates
- David A. Kent
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- Christopher Lee
- Martyn Lyons
- J. S. D. Mellick
- David Malouf
- Peter Otto
- Michael Sharkey
- Andrew Taylor
- James Wieland