Graeme Turner

This is a book I was eager to read. I have long been an admirer of Peter Pierce's writing, and the subject ofthe study- the trope ofthe lost child within Australian narrative - is a rich and fascinating one. Also…

Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters and presentation of action is typical of adventure stories, but Turner concludes that these conventions…

Examines the relationship between Carey’s fiction and international forms, particularly American forms and meanings.

Examines the mode of characterisation prevalent in Australian fiction, a mode which presents character as “the product of social, extrinsic determinants rather than as the expression of an individuated, intrinsic self” (447). Argues that the prominence of this mode of…