http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1603 Stead in Love Wed, 22 May 2013 21:40:15 GMT 2013-05-22T21:40:15Z http://dspace.flinders.edu.au:80/jspui/retrieve/4361/Aug02coverlarge.jpg http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1603 http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1685 Title: Twenty Years On, July Bestsellers, September Highlights. Abstract: This items contains miscellaneous items including July 2002 bestsellers. Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1685 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1684 Title: Mixed Results in the South Seas. "Quiros", by John Toohey. [review] Authors: Rivers, Bronwyn Abstract: John Toohey’s "Quiros" is set during the seventeenth-century search for the Great South Land. Toohey negotiates the pitfalls of his genre with mixed success. The situation he explores is intriguing: men grouped in a confined place on a dangerous voyage to an uncertain destination. He sets up the various psychological dramas in a promising fashion, and gives his story the immediacy of a first-person narrator. However, various interesting possibilities are not fully explored. Perhaps the problem is a sense of uncertainty about the novel’s precise generic location, whether it is primarily a psychological drama or an adventure tale. Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1684 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1683 Title: The Importance of Being Edited. "Szabad", by Alan Duff and "Featherstone", by Kirsty Gunn. [review] Authors: Loney, Alan Abstract: Kirsty Gunn’s "Featherstone" is a writerly book, with a style and tone carefully attuned to letting a mystery tale unfold very differently in different lives over the course of a single weekend. It is complex and intimate in its descriptions, and shows wonderful cunning in hingeing the story on an ‘event’ that may or may not have happened. "Szabad", on the other hand, tells a monochromatic and brutal story that is not complex, is intimate only about the adolescent narrator, and is almost painfully journalistic. Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1683 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1682 Title: Missing the Zeitgeist. "Alanna", by Alan Saunders. [review] Authors: Gerster, Robin Abstract: As a satire of the pretension, gullibility and downright silliness of contemporary Australian cultural politics, "Alanna" is highly diverting entertainment. But its textual ‘playfulness’ is, frankly, a bit passé. Good satire posits, either overtly or covertly, an alternative ethical system. I couldn’t detect one here; ultimately, the novel runs the risk of being viewed as just as vacuous as the world it scrutinises and represents. The gung-ho theorist Karl opines at one point that ‘the free play of intertextual multivocalities effectively de-centres the discursive practice through which polymorphous identity is mediated’. This is the hideous jargon of an artistic environment that has lost its intellectual as well as aesthetic way. Pity is, it’s the kind of language that a novel such as "Alanna" encourages as well as lampoons. Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1682 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z