Realism
Articles
- Paris, Moscow, Melbourne: Some Avant-Garde Australian Little Magazines, 1930-1934
Discusses a collection of little magazines published in the interwar period that 'show a sudden--if delayed--moment of accession to contemporary debates about modernity and the…
1 May 1993 - An Interview with Archie Weller
Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.
1 October 1993 - ‘The Only Russian in Sydney’: Modernism and Realism in The Watch Tower
In the post-war period, the dichotomy between Realism and Modernism seemed to summarise all the important rivalries in Australian fiction — nationalist enthusiasm and political…
1 May 1992 - Racism, the Realist Writers’ Movement and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award
In their works on literary politics in postwar Australia, Susan McKernan (later Lever) and John McLaren mention the comparatively little known role played by the…
1 October 1999 - The British Tradition in John Morrison’s Radical Nationalism
Uses John Morrison’s work as an exemplary case for examining the British dissenting tradition in shaping Australian radicalism. Argues that the strength of the reception…
1 May 2002 - Gender, Genre, and Sybylla’s Performative Identity in Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her…
1 October 1997 - Treating Dora in His Natural Life
This article concentrates on the characterisation of Dora, the heroine in the serialised version of His Natural Life. The author wants ‘to cast new…
1 May 2003 - Gender and Genre in Barbara Baynton’s Human Toll
Sheridan challenges negative evaluations of Human Toll that measure the success of the novel against the well-made realist novel. Sheridan argues that the novel is…
1 May 1989 - Brunton Stephens as Literary Critic
JAMES Brunton Stephens (1835-1902) is mainly and correctly remembered as a poet; as a name his lustre in Australian literature is somewhat dulled by the…
1 December 1965 - Francis Adams: Realism and Sensation in the 1880s
The English-born traveller and writer Francis Adams, who was in Australia from 1884 to 1890, was a cultural activist and a conduit in both directions…
31 October 2015
Contributors
- Australia Council
- David Carter
- Nathan Hollier
- Ian Henderson
- Ian Henderson
- Janine Little
- Nicholas Mansfield
- John McLaren
- Susan Sheridan
- Clement Semmler
- Meg Tasker
- Archie Weller