Discusses the prosody and colloquial narrative tone of Fredy Neptune in the context of the Boeotian tradition which “locates the art of poetry in the…
Discusses Australian expatriation and the 'European journey' typical of young Australian women, in the context of the author's own expatriation and with reference to Ros…
The discovery of the antipodean environment and its landscapes posed a challenge and set a limit to European notions of culture and nature which continue…
During the past forty years or so in Australia a notable high culture has been created which for all its diversity is both recognizably national…
Michael Wilding's Pacific Highway is his pastoral romance; a true descendant of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe and similar antique prose narratives, incorporating Theocritan and Arcadian…
As the title suggests, this book is riddled with contradictions. Although its editors spend much of their introduction chronicling the sins of universities, most of…
Discusses contemporary short fiction by writers including Murray Bail, Peter Cowan, Hal Porter, Michael Wilding and Frank Moorhouse, who transformed a genre most readily associated…