Australian landscape
Articles
- Salt Scars: John Kinsella’s Wheatbelt
Discusses John Kinsella's long-term poetic engagement with the fraught landscape of the West Australian Wheatbelt. 'Kinsella is an awkward manic wheatbelt laureate, filled with passionate…
1 June 2012 - Terra Australis: Landscape as Medium in Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country
Since the finding of the Australian High Court in what has come to be known as the Mabo decision of January 1992, the phrase Terra…
1 May 1995 - Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…
1 May 2001 - Sanctuary and Scars: Salt as a Landscape Element in the Novels and Non-Fiction of Tim Winton
This article argues that salt functions as a transformative marking and shaping agent in Tim Winton’s work. Salt scars both people and place (externally and…
2 May 2023