Anne Pender
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Pender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Pender |
| SIGNATURE | PENDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7435-0308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biography, History and Democracy
Biography is one of the most potent arts of democracy because it links the individual to the body politic and to history. It stands in parallel with independent long-form journalism. Whereas independent journalism is under threat, biography is currently one of the most popular and productive genres of publishing, breaking down the stratification of readership associated with almost every other category of writing. In the academy, the status of bi…
From partial to integrated perspectives
There is now widespread recognition that the dominant approaches to addressing the climate crisis to date have been insufficient. One reason for this is their failure to account for the influential role played by inner dimensions such as worldviews, values and beliefs in shaping how we understand and respond to this urgent issue. This paper explores how worldviews are both an insufficiently understood factor and an under-utilised tool that could …
Australia and China at 50
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening up of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. When he became prime minister in 1972, Gough Whitlam sent the first ambassador to China (Dr Stephen Fitzgerald), and in his term of office established support for artists’ exchanges from the Australia Council. The Australian Ballet visited China in 1980, the first major ballet company to tour since the Cultural Revolution. The tour…
John Clarke
John Clarke delighted audiences with his satire for many years. He was both a writer and an actor, but in many ways, particularly in his early years, he was a reluctant actor. This article examines the development of Clarke’s unique approach to performing and his solution to the problem of establishing a direct connection with an audience. It explores Clarke’s development as a performer and writer from his beginnings in university revue in New Ze…
Learning to Act
This case study of Tony Sheldon considers how an actor develops versatility in emotional delivery and the capacity to work in all theatre genres. Sheldon is one of Australia’s best known and most successful stage actors. He has appeared in Shakespearean drama, cabaret, musical theatre and contemporary plays written by Australian, British and American playwrights. He is one of a sizeable group of Australian actors of his generation to have learned…
Modernist Madonnas
During the 1920s Vogue magazine in the UK was transformed from a society paper into a magazine of high modernism and the avant-garde. The editor was Dorothy Todd. Todd was assisted by her protégée and lover, the Australian-born Madge Garland. During this period Garland and Todd developed friendships with Virginia Woolf, other members of Bloomsbury, writers such as Rebecca West and artists such as Marie Laurencin. Madge Garland also developed frie…
The Mythical Australian
Gough Whitlam's decision in 1974 to appear in Barry Humphries's film about a larrikin abroad, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, marks a potent moment in Australia's post-imperial history — a moment when the politics of Australian theatre and the theatre of Australian politics directly coincided. In their different spheres, Humphries and Whitlam dramatised the waning British connection felt by Australians. Whitlam's own version of “new nationalism” wa…
Phrases Between Us’
Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, social worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published a biography in 2003, a book which reveals a great deal about Wickham's struggle as a poet but which is not widely held in Australia. But Jones shies away from a full analysis of the poetry, and there are almost no recent essays on Wickham's work? In spite of the critical neglect, Anna Wickham's poetry is widely anthologised …
Scorched Earth’, Washington and the Missing Manuscript of Christina Stead’s *I’m Dying Laughing
Penderâ s article reveals information from newly discovered Christina Stead manuscripts, and proposes a new reading, in the light of these materials, of Steadâ s posthumously published novel Iâ m Dying Laughing (ed. by Ron Geering)
No more please
In her autobiography My Gorgeous Life (1989) Edna Everage declares herself to be 'a pioneer of Relevance', boasting that she played Lady Macbeth as 'an ordinary Scottish housewife trying to cope with her husband's mid-life crisis'. Barry Humphries' most enduring character, Edna Everage, made her stage debut in Melbourne in 1955. She rose to become a celebrity in Britain where she is better known than her creator. But she and her inventor are no l…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
From partial to integrated perspectives
There is now widespread recognition that the dominant approaches to addressing the climate crisis to date have been insufficient. One reason for this is their failure to account for the influential role played by inner dimensions such as worldviews, values and beliefs in shaping how we understand and respond to this urgent issue. This paper explores how worldviews are both an insufficiently understood factor and an under-utilised tool that could …
No more please
In her autobiography My Gorgeous Life (1989) Edna Everage declares herself to be 'a pioneer of Relevance', boasting that she played Lady Macbeth as 'an ordinary Scottish housewife trying to cope with her husband's mid-life crisis'. Barry Humphries' most enduring character, Edna Everage, made her stage debut in Melbourne in 1955. She rose to become a celebrity in Britain where she is better known than her creator. But she and her inventor are no l…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Scorched Earth’, Washington and the Missing Manuscript of Christina Stead’s *I’m Dying Laughing
Penderâ s article reveals information from newly discovered Christina Stead manuscripts, and proposes a new reading, in the light of these materials, of Steadâ s posthumously published novel Iâ m Dying Laughing (ed. by Ron Geering)
The Mythical Australian
Gough Whitlam's decision in 1974 to appear in Barry Humphries's film about a larrikin abroad, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, marks a potent moment in Australia's post-imperial history — a moment when the politics of Australian theatre and the theatre of Australian politics directly coincided. In their different spheres, Humphries and Whitlam dramatised the waning British connection felt by Australians. Whitlam's own version of “new nationalism” wa…
Phrases Between Us’
Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, social worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published a biography in 2003, a book which reveals a great deal about Wickham's struggle as a poet but which is not widely held in Australia. But Jones shies away from a full analysis of the poetry, and there are almost no recent essays on Wickham's work? In spite of the critical neglect, Anna Wickham's poetry is widely anthologised …
Modernist Madonnas
During the 1920s Vogue magazine in the UK was transformed from a society paper into a magazine of high modernism and the avant-garde. The editor was Dorothy Todd. Todd was assisted by her protégée and lover, the Australian-born Madge Garland. During this period Garland and Todd developed friendships with Virginia Woolf, other members of Bloomsbury, writers such as Rebecca West and artists such as Marie Laurencin. Madge Garland also developed frie…
Learning to Act
This case study of Tony Sheldon considers how an actor develops versatility in emotional delivery and the capacity to work in all theatre genres. Sheldon is one of Australia’s best known and most successful stage actors. He has appeared in Shakespearean drama, cabaret, musical theatre and contemporary plays written by Australian, British and American playwrights. He is one of a sizeable group of Australian actors of his generation to have learned…
John Clarke
John Clarke delighted audiences with his satire for many years. He was both a writer and an actor, but in many ways, particularly in his early years, he was a reluctant actor. This article examines the development of Clarke’s unique approach to performing and his solution to the problem of establishing a direct connection with an audience. It explores Clarke’s development as a performer and writer from his beginnings in university revue in New Ze…
Australia and China at 50
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening up of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. When he became prime minister in 1972, Gough Whitlam sent the first ambassador to China (Dr Stephen Fitzgerald), and in his term of office established support for artists’ exchanges from the Australia Council. The Australian Ballet visited China in 1980, the first major ballet company to tour since the Cultural Revolution. The tour…
From partial to integrated perspectives
There is now widespread recognition that the dominant approaches to addressing the climate crisis to date have been insufficient. One reason for this is their failure to account for the influential role played by inner dimensions such as worldviews, values and beliefs in shaping how we understand and respond to this urgent issue. This paper explores how worldviews are both an insufficiently understood factor and an under-utilised tool that could …
Biography, History and Democracy
Biography is one of the most potent arts of democracy because it links the individual to the body politic and to history. It stands in parallel with independent long-form journalism. Whereas independent journalism is under threat, biography is currently one of the most popular and productive genres of publishing, breaking down the stratification of readership associated with almost every other category of writing. In the academy, the status of bi…
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