These very different books - one a study of cultural conflicts and controversies, particularly of how these were pursued in little magazines; the other a…
Two review articles in this journal a couple of years ago offered suggestive overviews of the current state of literary criticism. Ken Stewart's review of…
A well-known gap in the bibliography of A.G. Stephens, literary editor of the Bulletin and of that paper's short-lived venture into publishing a literary monthly…
Kiernan reviews the following volumes:
Patrick White, by John Colmer, Contemporary Writers series (London. New York: Methuen, 1984)
Laden Choirs: The Fiction of Patrick…
A correction to 'Some Previously Unpublished Lawson Material in Australian Libraries' (ALS 10, 4, 1982).
Discusses new papers discovered at the La Trobe Library.
Histories of the Bulletin by journalists associated with the paper during its century of survival, or continual reincarnation, have their own history by now. When…
Kiernan argues that “Going Blind” dramatizes the relationship between imagination and reality. Homesickness and nostalgia cloud the main character’s memory of the bush, but Kiernan…
'They won't have heard of much Australian writing, apart from Patrick While, but what they'll be interested in is the Aborigines.' Words of advice from…
The epigraph to Noel Macainsh's study comes from Jack Lindsay's 1948 Meanjin essay, 'Zarathustra in Queensland'. Lindsay later substantially incorporated this essay into the first…
Not long after the first settlement here, comparisons with American life and letters began to be drawn, with America offering the major alternative to England…
'The primary aim' D.R. Burns states in his foreword, 'is to describe appreciatively the best works of Australian fiction published in the period.' This aim…
Although its title implies a literary-historical survey and a greater inclusiveness Barry Argyle's book is in fact a collection of essays on Quintus Scrvinton, …
Despite its having the pioneering life as its subject and something like the family saga for its structure, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (1938) has little in…
Provides a list of useful articles and books on Australian literature, and also a selection of reviews and of prefaces, published in 1963.
Kiernan questions whether Such is Life reflects the “spirit of the nineties” and whether the ideas that Tom Collins expresses in his digressions are simply…