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Articles
- Interview with Christina Stead
Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.
1 October 1980 - Preoccupations
Beverley Farmer discusses her literary 'preoccupations', including the experience of loss.
1 May 1990 - Dramatising the Self: Beverley Farmer’s Fiction
There is a clear autobiographical dimension to Beverley Farmer's fiction: her own life and experience provide the material that goes into her writing, and the…
1 October 1995 - Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Prominent among the wilder bohemians of Sydney in the 1920s was Joseph Lynch, a gifted black-and-white artist originally from New Zealand. Jack Lindsay placed him…
1 May 1988 - ‘Not a Good Forgetter’: H.H. Richardson’s Recasting of the Past in Myself When Young
Examines the relationship between autobiographical truths and 'fictional embroidering' in Richardson's autobiography in terms of its representation of familial relationships, arguing that the work is…
1 May 1998 - A Reconsideration of Christina Stead at Work: Fact into Fiction
Everyone knows that novelists, like painters, draw from life. What we need to understand is more about the ways particular novelists transform real people into…
1 May 1997 - New Light on the Sources of His Natural Life
Henry Rouse, prisoner 18485, also known as Henry Beresford Garrett, Long Harry, John Heathcote and Klodhopr, spent about 38 years in gaols in England, Norfolk…
1 May 1997 - An Interview with Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch discusses his career and approach to writing.
1 May 1997 - Remaking the Middle Ages in Australia: Francis Webb’s ‘The Canticle’ (1953)
Francis Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, 'The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has been acknowledged as a watershed in his career (Griffith, Life and…
1 May 1999 - David Malouf’s Child’s Play and ‘The Death of the Author’
Child's Play is entirely textually oriented, a novel which takes its own development as its subject, its own form as its entire reality. The analysis…
1 May 1988 - New Directions Via A Body of Water
There is something mysterious about titles. The other day I sat down thinking that I might begin by trying to tap into the ramifications of…
1 October 1995 - An Interview with Tim Winton
Winton discusses his career, literary influences, and approach to form and style.
1 October 1996 - The Historical Source for Ada Cambridge’s ‘The Camp’
It is still commonly assumed that Ada Cambridge's descriptions of 'the Camp' in Thirty Years in Australia, A Marked Man and Fidelis refer to…
1 May 1989 - Three Talks: David Malouf, Les Murray and David Rowbotham: Les Murray
Les Murray introduces some of his poems and discusses their inspiration and his process of writing them.
1 May 1984 - ‘Eyre All Alone’: Francis Webb as Mythmaker
Considers Webb's adaptation of Eyre's 'realization of his complete isolation' during his ill-fated exploratory journey of 1841, with particular emphasis on the poem's engagement with…
1 May 1981 - Janette Turner Hospital’s Radical Re-Writing: Oedipal Charades
Janette Turner Hospital is a writer who travels: geographically, spiritually, emotionally, generically. She takes risks, crosses borders, makes radical departures (her third novel is entitled…
1 October 1996 - ‘Roost High and Crow Low’: The Legacy of Barry Andrews
Editor's Note: The 1999 Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture is reprinted here because of its wider relevance to developments in Australian literary studies, a main topic…
1 May 2000 - ‘Contour-Line by Contour’: Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray
Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…
1 May 1994 - Henry Kingsley, and the ‘Dear Old Station’: The ‘Baroona’ of Geoffry Hamlyn?
Where did Henry Kingsley work or get acquainted with cattle while he was in Australia? The question arises from a close look at one of…
1 October 1993 - An Interview with Judith Rodriguez
Judith Rodriguez discusses her approach to poetry and the development of her work.
1 October 1997
Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Ann Blake
- Laurel Bergmann
- Patricia Excell
- Beverley Farmer
- Beverley Farmer
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Peter Kirkpatrick
- Christopher Koch
- Andrew Lynch
- Martin Leer
- Adrian Mitchell
- Les Murray
- J. S. D. Mellick
- Lyn McCredden
- Xavier Pons
- Judith Rodriguez
- Christina Stead
- Barry Smith
- Andrew Taylor
- Rodney Wetherell
- Stephen Woods
- Tim Winton
- Louise Wakeling