English Section: Some Recent Published Articles (from 2000)

Robin Gerster

'No Man is a Naked Island: The Australian POW Story', Southerly. Forthcoming 2005.
'The Past As a Foreign Country: Nostalgia and Nationalism in Contemporary Japanese Tourism', Tourism Review International (US). Forthcoming 2005.
"Hiroshima No More: Forgetting "the Bomb"', War and Society , 22 no. 1 (May 2004), 59-68.
"Oh Japan! Coming to Grips with the Bogeyman", Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (Kyoto), 11 (March 2003), 129-35.
"Hiroshima and All That: Revisiting 'the Bomb'", REA: A Journal of Religion, Education and the Arts (Dublin, Ireland), no. 2 (2001/2002), 6-16.
"Homeward Bound: Australian Literary Travels in Asia", in Rudlophus Teeuwen (ed.), Crossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics , Bookman Books, Taipei, 2001, pp. 121-132.
"(Dis)Orientating Japan: Confessions of a Literary Traveller",Southerly, 62, no. 1 (2002), 137-148.

"Finding his Feet: Wyatt and the Founding of English Metre", Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosody 3 (forthcoming 2005)
"'Knocking a Verse on the Head': Towards a Performance Grammar of English Verse", in Metre, Rhythm and Performance &emdash;Metrum, Rhythmus, Performanz , ed. Christoph Kper (Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, Linguistic International, Band 6, 2002), 215-228.
"What Music Lies in the Cold Print': Larkin's Experimental Metric",Style 35.4 (Winter 2001):703-723.
"'Water from the Well': the Transmission and Reception of Chaucer's Metric".Parergon (Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) n.s. 17 (2000): 51-73.

"Let us laugh at one another or die: Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies and South Asian migration to Australia" in Diaspora Writing of the Indian Subcontinent ed. Ralph Crane (Amsterdam and Atlanta GA: Rudopi, September 2000).
'The Genesis of the Indian English Women's Tradition' in Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism, ed Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan (New Delhi: Prestige, 2002), pp 296-305.
'The Indian Women's English Literary Tradition' in Empire On-Line (London: Adam Matthews Publications, 2003).

"Sally Potter's Orlando ," 24 Frames of British Cinema(ed.) Brian McFarlane, Wallflower Press, London, 2005, pp.217-226.
"Theatres of Extremity: Permeable Subjectivity in The Thin Red Line , Xchanges, on-line journal of Wayne State University , Michigan , May 2005.
"Anxiety and its Antidotes: Patricia Cornwell and the Forensic Body,"Literature Interpretation Theory , 15, 3 (Fall 2004): 207-222.
"Narratives, Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis , (eds.) Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds. Melbourne University Press, 2003, pp.177-187.
"Original Sins: Imaging Maternity in Australian Cinema," The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction," A special book edition of Meridian (18, 2, 2002), pp.243-266.
"Double Hooks: American Women Poets Write the Maternal," Australian Journal of American Studies , 19, 1 (July 2000): 1-17.

"Incandescence: The Power of What is not There in Margaret Atwood's Mourning in the Burned House, " Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye, (ed.) John Moss, University of Ottawa Press , forthcoming 2006.
"Oscar and Lucinda: Of glass, water and guilt , " 24 Frames of Australian Cinema (ed.) Geoff Mayer, Wallflower Press, London , forthcoming 2006.

"Leaving Home: George Eliot and Romola ", Women's Writing, Vol. 10, no. 2, 2003, pp. 329 - 342.
"George Eliot and the Drama of Otherness", Postcolonial Studies , Vol. 4, no. 1, 2001, pp.55-63.
'Negotiating a Self: Barbara Bodichon in America and Algiers ',Postcolonial Studies , 8, II, pp.213-222, 2005.
"Ethical evolution: endogamy and exogamy in The Mill on the Floss ", George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies ,(forthcoming).

'Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance', Australian Feminist Studies (20) 2005: 45.
'Dereliction: Women, Rape and Football', Australian Feminist Law Journal (21) 2004
'The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualisation', Feminist Theory 5 (3) 2004: 243.
'Exhibiting the Hymen: The Blank Page between Law and Literature', The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Text, Images, Screens , Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 34, 33-52.
'The Right Language for Rape', Hecate , 29 (1), 2003: 47-58.
(with Peter Rush) 'Fatal Flaws: Law, Literature and Writing', Law and Critique 14, 2003: 191-211.
'Signifying Justice: Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism', Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism: Special Issue , Australian Feminist Law Journal (Eds. Nina Puren and Alison Young) 13, 2000: 6-15.
"Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture: Review Essay', Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism: Special Issue ,Australian Feminist Law Journal (Eds. Nina Puren and Alison Young) 13, 2000: 152-163.

"Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-century Romance" in Corinne Saunders, A Companion to Romance From Classical to Contemporary(Blackwell, London 2004), 251-68.
"Referencing the Real: Hugh Blair, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, and the Limits of Representation", in Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr, eds, New Windows on a Woman's World (Otago, 2005), 258-275.
"'Convict of lyes is every sign': Jonathan Swift and the Everyday", in Reading Swift: Papers from the Fourth Munster Symposium, ed. Hermann Real and Helgard Stover-Leidig (Fink: Munchen, 2003), 23-35.

'Playing Adrian Mole: Parody and Performative Adolescence.'Seriously Playful: Genre, Performance and Text, ed. Sharyn Pearce and Kerry Mallan. Flaxton, Qld: PostPressed, 2004, 213-224.
'Writing the Child: The Darkening of the Green World.' Children's Literature , Johns Hopkins UP, vol.32, 2004, 239-245.
'Writing the Childhood Self: Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Testimonies.' The Lion and the Unicorn 25.2 (2001): 226-241.
'All Our Christmases Come at Once: War, Peace and the Fin de Sicle .' Papers 10.3 (2000): 32-37.
'Children's Literature: 1890-1945', in History of the Book in Australia , Vol.2, ed. Martyn Lyon and John Arnold, St Lucia: UQP, 2001.

'A Father and His Fate: Intertext and Gender', in Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative and Performance in Honour of Marie Maclean , edited Brian Nelson, Anne Freadman and Philip Anderson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. 129-41.