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…
As I sailed out of Sydney Harbour aboard the Castel Felice on Christmas Day, 1963, I had no idea that I would never again live…
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…