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Philip Butterss

Philip Butterss teaches Australian literature and film at the University of Adelaide. He is currently working on a history of literary Adelaide.

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University of Adelaide

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Philip Butterss
Australian Literary Studies in the 1940s: The Commonwealth Literary Fund Lectures

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…

1 November 2015
Philip Butterss
The Tennysons in Literary Adelaide

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…

31 October 2015
Philip Butterss
Review of Larrikins: A History, by Melissa Bellanta

In a recent weekend paper there was a review of yet another biography labelling its subject a larrikin. This time it was Shirl: The Lift…

1 November 2012
Philip Butterss
James Lester Burke, Martin Cash and Frank the Poet

A manuscript version of The Adventures of Martin Cash, held in the Archives Office of Tasmania, throws important light on several poems which have…

1 May 1992