Michael Wilding (born 1942) is a British-born writer and academic who has spent most of his career at the University of Sydney, where he has been an emeritus professor in English and Australian literature since 2002.
ISBN: 0 7022 0895 7 (hb); 0 7022 0896 5 (pb) Serbo-Croat translation by David Albahari, Decje Novine, Belgrade, 1985 The Short Story Embassy: a Novel, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1975, 124 pp.
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(pb) The Radical Tradition: Lawson, Furphy, Stead, (The Colin Roderick Lectures, 1992) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Townsville, 1993, 82 pp.
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(hb & pb); Aurora, Nashville, 1970, ISBN: 87695 089 6 (pb) Introduction to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the Tragedy of Marcus Brutus (Shakespeare Adaptations, second series) Cornmarket Press, London, 1970 (hb) Edited with Shirley Cass, Ros Cheney & David Malouf, We Took Their Orders and Are Dead, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1971, 256 pp.
ISBN: 0 7254 0070 6 (hb & pb) Edited with an introduction, Marcus Clarke, (Portable Australian Authors series) University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1976, xxxii + 687 pp.
ISBN: 0 86806 072 0 (hb); 0 86806 073 9 (pb) Introduction reprinted in Marcus Clarke Novelist Foreword to The Art of the Story, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1989, x + 157, ISBN 9780642128966 (pb) pp v-vii Foreword reprinted in Wild About Books Academia.edu Edited with an introduction with Rudi Krausmann, Air Mail From Down Under: Zeitgenössische Literatur Australiens, volume 1–Short Stories, Gangan, Vienna, 1990, 159 pp.
Laurel Cohn, NSW Writers' Centre, Sydney, 2001, 5-8 (pb) Edited with David Myers, Best Stories Under the Sun, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2004, vi + 186 pp.
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[6] Thesis Ian Harold Jamieson; 'Sex and the Sydney Context Of Michael Wilding's Early Fiction', Ph D thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2009 Academia.edu Essays in books and periodicals Carl Harrison-Ford, 'The Short Stories of Wilding and Moorhouse’, Southerly, 33 (1973) 167-178 Academia.edu Bruce Bennett , World Literature Written in English ,15, 2 (November 1976) 359-366 Dutton, Geoffrey, ed., Literature of Australia, revised edition, Penguin, Ringwood, 1976 Brian Kiernan, 'Recent Developments in Australian Writing with Particular Reference to Short Fiction’, Caliban, (Toulouse) XIV (1977) 123-134 Cantrell, Leon, 'The New Novel' in K. G. Hamilton, ed., Studies in the Recent Australian Novel, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1978, 225-57 Ken Gelder, 'Uncertainty and Subversion in the Australian Novel’, Pacific (Moana) Quarterly, (Hamilton, New Zealand) IV (1979) 437-444 Ken Gelder, 'Character and Environment in Some Recent Australian Fiction’, Waves, (York University, Ontario) VII (1979) 98-104 Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Laszlo's Testament, or Structuring the Past and Sketching the Present in Contemporary Short Fiction’, Kunapipi, (Aarhus) I ii (1980) 110-123 Academia.edu G. M. Gillard, 'The New Writing: Whodunnit?'
Meanjin XL (1981) 167-174 Bruce Clunies Ross, ‘Some Developments in short fiction, 1969-80’, Australian Literary Studies, 1981 XXX Wilkes, G. A., The Stockyard and the Croquet Lawn: Literary Evidence for Australia's Cultural Development, Edward Arnold, Melbourne, 1981 Mitchell, Adrian, in Kramer, L. J., ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 170-1 Brian Kiernan, 'Literary Sydney' in Jill Roe ed., Twentieth Century Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 19xx, reprinted in Brian Kiernan, Studies in Australian Literary History, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 17, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney: Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1998 Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Co, Detroit: Michele Fryar, ‘Moorhouse and Wilding as Fiction Writers : Our Hottest Property?’ — Aspects of Australian Culture, 1982, 55-59 Harry Payne Heseltine , The Uncertain Self : Notes on the Development of Australian Literary Form ‘, Review of National Literatures Australia, 1982, 85-113 Bruce Clunies Ross, 'A New Version of Pastoral: the Fiction of Michael Wilding’, Australian Literary Studies, XI (1983) 182-194 Washington Post Book World, (March 20 1983) Hans Hauge, 'Post-Modernism and the Australian Literary Heritage’, Overland, 96 (1984) 50-51 Andrew Field in The Age Monthly Review (September 1985) Mitchell, Adrian, in Kramer, L. J., ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 170-1 Michele Fryar, ‘Moorhouse and Wilding as Fiction Writers : Our Hottest Property?’ — Aspects of Australian Culture, 1982, 55-59 Brian Kiernan, 'Literary Sydney' in Jill Roe ed., Twentieth Century Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 19xx, reprinted in Brian Kiernan, Studies in Australian Literary History, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 17, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney: Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1998 Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Co, Detroit: Ian Reid, 'The Social Semiotic of Narrative Exchange’, in T. Threadgold, E. A. Grosz, G. Kress and M. A. K. Halliday, ed., Semiotics, Ideology, Language, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 3, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney, 1986 Ken Goodwin, A History of Australian Literature, Macmillan, London, 1986, 254-8 Don Anderson, Hot Copy: Reading & Writing Now, Penguin, Ringwood, 1986, 46-8 Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Paradise, Politics and Fiction: The Writing of Michael Wilding’, Meanjin, 45 i (1986) 19-27 Bruce Bennett, 'Michael Wilding' in James Vinson, ed., Contemporary Novelists, 4th edition, Macmillan, London, 1987 Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Literary Studies , 13, 4 (1988) 535-546 Kenneth Gelder, ‘Sex in Australian Fiction 1970 – 1987,’ Meanjin, 47, 1 (1988) 125-34 Ian Ousby, ed., Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, revised edition 1992 reprinted as The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English, Wordsworth, 1994 L. T. Hergenhan, ed., The New Literary History of Australia, Penguin, Ringwood, 1988 Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman, The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-88, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1989 Carl Harrison-Ford, Tim Thorne, Don Anderson, Andrew Riemer, Bill Ashcroft and Helen Daniel in Helen Daniel, ed., The Good Reading Guide, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1989, 273-6 Simone Vauthier, 'Lost and Found: Narrative and Description in Michael Wilding's "What it was like, sometimes,"' Journal of the Short Story in English: Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle (University of Angers) 12 (1989) 63-76 Simone Vauthier, 'Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding's "Knock Knock"' in Giovanna Capone, ed., European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1991, 128-139 Academia.edu Laurie Clancy, Readers' Guide to Australian Fiction, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992 Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, 73, Gale Research, Detroit, 1993 Don Graham, 'Koka Kola Culture; Reflections Upon Things American Down Under’, Southwest Review, (USA) 78 ii (Spring 1993) 231-244 Frank Parigi, 'Frank Moorhouse and Michael Wilding - and Internationalism’, Antipodes, (Austin, Texas) 8 ii (June 1994) 15-20 Academia.edu Don Anderson, Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, ed.
Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, Routledge, London and New York, 2, 1994, 1657 Don Anderson, Text & Sex, Vintage, Random House, Sydney, 1995, 123, 139-140, 145, reprinted from Margaret Harris & Elizabeth Webby, ed.
Reconnoitres, Sydney University Press, 1992 Wayne Martino, 'It's Not the Way Guys Think’, in Rollo Browne and Richard Fletcher, ed., Boys in Schools, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 1995, 124-138 Pradeep Trikha, 'Michael Wilding's Short Stories with Magnitude’, The Literary Criterion, 30, i & ii, (1995) 141-144 P. Trikha, 'Australian Short Fiction – The Last 30 Years’, Commonwealth Studies, 4, (1996) 144-9 Matt Condon, 'Our Remaindered Canon', The Australian's Review of Books, September 1997, 8-9, 31 Huang Yuan Shen, A History of Australian Literature, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, Shanghai, 1997, chapter six (5) Ian Syson, 'Michael Wilding's Three Centres of Value’, Australian Literary Studies, (May 1998) 269-279 Academia.edu Igor Maver, '"My Beloved Mississippi River": Michael Wilding's Somewhere New’, Antipodes, 12, ii (December 1998) 83-9 Academia.edu P. Trikha, 'The New Wave Australian Fiction: 1965-1995', Occasional Papers, (March 1999) 43-51 Igor Maver, 'Non-Australian Settings in Michael Wilding's Selected and New Short Stories Somewhere New’, in Igor Maver, Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 18, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1999, 17-41 Academia.edu Igor Maver, 'Michael Wilding's Selected and New Short Stories' in Mirko Jurak and Igor Maver, eds, Essays on Australian and Canadian Literature, Znanstveni institut Folozofske fakultete, Ljubljana, 2000, 71-85 Don Graham, 'Michael Wilding's "Lost Illusions"; The Balzacian Underpinnings of Wildest Dreams’, in Francis de Groen and Ken Stewart, ed., Australian Writing and the City (Proceedings of the 21st ASAL conference, 1999) Association for the Study of Australian Literature, [Sydney], 2000, 138-143 Dieter Riemenschneider, 'The Triangle of Art and Life: Michael Wilding, Short Story Writer' in Jacqueline Bardolph, ed., Telling Stories: Post-Colonial Short Fiction in English, Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 2001, 427-38 (A paper given at the second conference on 'Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English’, Nice, March, 1997) Reference Guide to Short Fiction, St James Press, 2001 Short Story Criticism, 50, Gale Research Co, Detroit, 2002 Bruce Bennett, The Australian Short Story, University of Queensland Press, 2002 Irina Dunn, 'Tribute to Michael Wilding’, Newswrite, 122 (December 2002) 5 Jaroslav Kušnir, Australian Literature in Context, Slovakia, 2003, revised edition 2004 Robert Yeo, 'Michael Wilding's Short Stories: A Speculative Note' in Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding, ed.
S. Williams, D. Lonergan, R. Hosking, L. Deane and N. Bierbaum, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2004, 241-50 Reprinted as ‘The Unsettled 70s – Moorhouse, Wilding, Viidikas’, in Bruce Bennett, Homing In: Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood, Network, Perth, 2006, 209-20 Colin Symes, 'Revolting campuses’, Teaching in Higher Education, 9, No.
Selina Samuels, Thomson Gale, 2007 Jaroslav Kušnír, ‘Michael Wilding, Murray Bail, Rodney Hall and Frank Moorhouse’, in Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, ed, A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, Camden House, Rochester N.Y., 2007, 359-74 Stephen Conlon, 'The New Idea of the University as an Academic Theme Park: Academia Nuts’, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 1, 1, (February 2007) 1-22 Reprinted in Conlon, Chaos in the Classroom, Assumption University Press, Bangkok, 2009, 266-294 'Profile: Michael Wilding’, The Write Stuff, August-September 2007 Adrienne Sallay, ‘Virgin Sock-Washers and Tweed Jackets: The Short Story in the 1970s’, Southerly, 68, 2 (November 2008) 181-96 Natasa Karanfilovic, ‘The Adventures of an Artful Dodger: On Writers and Writing in Contemporary Australia’, (Paper to BAS Conference, Romania, 2008) Journal of Australasian Literature, 2009 http://www.litere.uvt.ro/BAS/no15.htm http://www.litere.uvt.ro/documente_pdf/bas/contents_no15.pdf Ffion Murphy, ‘Campus Criticism and Creative Writing: perfect partners?’ Strange Bedfellows: Refereed Conference papers of the 16th Annual AWWP Conference, 2010 Stephen Matchett, ‘Well-Schooled Eye for Scandal’, Australian, Higher Education, 31 August 2011, 37 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/well-schooled-eye-for-scandal/story-e6frgcko-1226125601795 Don Graham, ‘The Rhetoric of Personal Address in Michael Wilding's Short Fiction’, Antipodes, 26.1 (June 2012): 99-101 Academia.edu Bruce Bennett, The Spying Game: an Australian Angle, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2012, 29-32, 35 Laurie Hergenhan, ‘Refashioning the Campus Novel: Michael Wilding’s Academia Nuts’, in Confluenze Intertestuali.