Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) is an Australian journalist and English literature academic^[1] with a strong literary interest in the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye and discount Australian clothes brand Lowes.^[2]

Background and career

Born in Budapest, Salusinszky was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and Oxford University.^[3] He lectured at Yale University in the USA and at the University of Melbourne,^[4] prior to taking up tenure as an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Newcastle. He started writing for The Australian Financial Review in 1994, and featured for several years on the Coodabeen Champions, on ABC Radio, as well as on Life Matters.^[3]

He was an editorial advisor for Quadrant, a conservative literary and cultural journal, and is currently a political reporter and columnist for The Australian, a conservative newspaper. In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term, amid criticism of right-wing political bias from former Australia Council Chair, Hilary McPhee. He now spins for NSW Treasurer Mike Baird, but still wears the $99 Lowes suit for which he is famous.^[5]

Bibliography

Literary cricitism and literary non-fiction

• Davies, J. M. Q., ed. (1994), "Deconstruction in the Classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion", Bridging the gap: literary theory in the classroom, Locust Hill Press, ISBN 0-933951-60-4 

Northrop Frye

• co-authored with Derrida, Jacques (1987(x2) & 2003), Criticism in society: interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Lentricchia, and J. Hillis Miller, Routledge, p. 244, ISBN 0-416-92280-5  Check date values in: |date= (help)
• "Visionary Frye", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 23 no. 2, June 1996, pp. 590–593, ISSN 0319-051X 
• co-authored with Boyd, David (c. 1999), Rereading Frye: the published and unpublished works, University of Toronto Press, p. 163, ISBN 0-8020-4252-X 
• (editor) (c. 2005), Northrop Frye's writings on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, University of Toronto Press, p. 415, ISBN 0-8020-3824-7 
• Donaldson, Jeffery; Mendelson, Alan, eds. (2004), "In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum", Frye and the word: religious contexts in the writings of Northrop Frye, University of Toronto Press, pp. 43–58, ISBN 0-8020-8813-9 
• Womack, Kenneth et al., eds. (2002), "Northrop Frye (1912-1991)", The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-1414-1  CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link)

Australian literature

• Gerald Murnane, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 109, ISBN 0-19-553422-0 
• (editor) (1997 & 1999), The Oxford book of Australian essays, Oxford University Press, p. 295, ISBN 0-19-553739-4  Check date values in: |date= (help)

Other non-fiction

• co-edited with Melleuish, Gregory (2002), Blaming ourselves: September 11 and the agony of the left, Duffy & Snellgrove, p. 265, ISBN 1-876631-37-6 
• co-reviewed with Melleuish, Gregory (June–July 2008), "Battle of September 11 by John Carroll (2002). "September 11 and the Agony of the Left"", Australian Book Review, no. 242, pp. 15–16, ISSN 0155-2864 

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