Tilting at windmills : the literary magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 / by Phillip Edmonds, Department of English and Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts, the University of Adelaide.
Publication Info.
Adelaide : The University of Adelaide, University Of Adelaide Press, [2015]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292).
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Contents
Graph of literary magazines in Australia from 1880 to 2012 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting out -- 3. Definitions -- 4. Some background -- 5. The sixties and all that -- 6. A major expansion -- 7. Academic developments and other problems -- 8. A more "realistic" decade -- 9. New editors -- 10. Changes among the established magazines -- 11. A magazine apart -- 12. Whither the universities -- 13. A brave new world -- 14. Everything that is solid melts -- 15. New magazines -- 16. The problem of poetry again -- 17. A new demographic? -- 18. Away from Sydney and Melbourne -- 19. Some of the same old problems -- 20. A case in point -- 'Heat' -- 21. Anti-democratic tendencies -- 22. An unreliable commodity -- 23. Complications and conclusions -- Postscript.
Summary
Up until the late 1960s the story of Australian literary magazines was one of continuing struggle against the odds, and of the efforts of individuals such as Clem Christesen, Stephen Murray-Smith and Max Harris. During that time, the magazines played the role of 'enfant terrible', creating a space where unpopular opinions and writers were allowed a voice. The magazines have very often been ahead of their time and some of the agendas they have pursued have become 'central' to representations where once they were marginal. Broadly, 'little' magazines have often been more influential than their small circulations would first indicate, and the author's argument is that they have played a valuable role in the promotion of Australian literature.
