Philip Butterss

Biographic Data

ID5406866
NAMEPhilip Butterss
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMEButterss
SIGNATUREBUTTERSS P
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Adelaide
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • Building literary Adelaide, 1836–1860

    Philip ButterssARTICLEJournal of Australian Studies2015

    This paper traces the development of a literary culture in Adelaide from the arrival of the first colonists in 1836 up to 1860, covering such areas as access to books and theatre, the establishment of literary journals, and early writing about the city. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there was sufficient population, infrastructure, and demand to allow literature to have a visible role in everyday life. For many residents, the idea that …

  • The Tennysons in Literary Adelaide

    Open AccessPhilip ButterssARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2015

    For many in Adelaide, the appointment in 1899 of Hallam Tennyson as governor of South Australia was a perfect ending for the nineteenth century. The city had long regarded its interest in literature as an important part of its identity, and, although Hallam might officially have been the representative of the British crown, he was received equally, or even more, as the heir of one of the great literary figures of the age. A poem published on the …

  • Australian Literary Studies in the 1940s

    Open AccessPhilip ButterssARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2015

    Probably the best-known story about the Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures concerns J.I.M. Stewart, professor of English at the University of Adelaide. Geoffrey Dutton remembers that Stewart, in his Oxford accent and almost-falsetto voice, began the first talk in 1940 with these words: ‘I am most grateful to the C.L.F. for providing the funds to give these lectures in Australian literature, but unfortunately they have neglected to provide any li…

  • Adelaide

    Philip ButterssBOOKAdelaide2013

    From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about—sometimes with…

  • Australian Masculinity on the Road

    Open AccessPhilip Butter, Philip ButterssARTICLEMedia International Australia2000References: 3

    In an Australia where the old images of masculinity are no longer serviceable, the road provides an ideal site for films wishing to explore ways of being a man at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, True Love and Chaos, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Kiss or Kill critique or destabilise traditional models of masculinity, and use the road as a space where masculinity is free to change. However, a…

  • James Lester Burke, Martin Cash and Frank the Poet

    Open AccessPhilip ButterssARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies1992

    A manuscript version of The Adventures of Martin Cash, held in the Archives Office of Tasmania, throws important light on several poems which have been attributed to Francis MacNamara or 'Frank the Poet'. The first edition of Cash's often-reprinted biography, published in Hobart by Mercury in 1870, is a fuller text than the later editions, containing, among other things, a ballad about the bushranger which has been excised from later printings. A…