Australian landscape - Literary portrayal

How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…

A passionate love of the land and of the people who live close to the soil is the source of Katharine Susannah Prichard's writing. Like…

Filed in the manuscripts section of the Mitchell Library are nine very interesting watercolour paintings by Henry Kingsley. They were referred to briefly by Brian…

Brian Elliott's article, 'The Composition of Geoffry Hamlyn: The Legend and the Facts', (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1968) has…

WHEN you consider how much Australiana is now available which only a few years ago was virtually inaccessible, it is a little surprising that no…

Mellick provides some details of Henry Kingsley's time in Australia.

Focusing on Wright’s representation of the land, the river and the cyclone, the essay attempts to demonstrate ‘how playfully, flexibly and experimentally Wright moblilises a…

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…

Elizabeth Lawson's 'biographical-critical survey' published in ALS in 2004 was the most recent of several efforts to win for Sarah Campion's novels the attention that…

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…

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…

The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…

Discusses Carter’s and other recent critical approaches to exploration narratives.

The journals of explorers are an important element in the cultural representation of the geography of Australia and of the nature of its inhabitants. But…

Judith Wright's poetry, stretching as it now does over thirty years and a dozen volumes, can be seen as a complex, evolving series of exhaustive…

A good academic paper, like a river, is a fluent intertwining, an intermingling and winding together of strands of material from different sources which all…

Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock gives voice to a powerful theme which George Steiner has claimed is characteristic of Russian and American fiction—that is…

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the margin became the centre of attention. The shift to late capitalism ascribed new value to the…

Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…

Where did Henry Kingsley work or get acquainted with cattle while he was in Australia? The question arises from a close look at one of…