Australian literary criticism
Articles
- Good Readers and Good Citizens : Literature, Media and the Nation
In recent decades nationalism has sometimes been classed in the same category of immoral behaviours as racism and sexism. Reading from the historical and literary…
1 October 1999 - Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 1964
Hildyard and Hiller provide a list of useful articles and books on Australian literature, along with a selection of reviews and prefaces, published in 1964.
1 June 1965 - Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 1963
Provides a list of useful articles and books on Australian literature, and also a selection of reviews and of prefaces, published in 1963.
1 June 1964 - Review of The Literature of Australia, edited by Geoffrey Dutton
A number of histories of Australian literature have already appeared. The products of single or joint authorship, they have had the advantage of unity of…
1 June 1965 - A.G. Stephens: The Critical Credo
Lee formulates A.G. Stephens's critical credo by selecting what he deems to be representative and characteristic statements from Stephens' published and unpublished work, arguing that…
1 December 1964 - Review of An Introduction to Australian Literature, edited by C. D. Narasimhaiah
At the moment there is a good deal of responsible and competent literary criticism being written in Australia, and the study of an Australian literature…
1 December 1966 - Review of Australian Literary Criticism edited by Grahame Johnston
Professor Johnston's anthology is certain to be attacked by academic critics on several grounds. His critical judgment will be questioned; he will be reviled for…
1 December 1963 - Review of The Writer in Australia 1856-1964, edited by John Barnes
The neutral title of this anthology of writing about Australian literature might well obscure the fact that the editor sees it as providing some of…
1 October 1969 - Review of Literary Australia by Clement Semmler and Derek Whitelock
Literary Australia offers revised versions of twelve papers given in January 1965 at a residential seminar on 'Literature in Australia' arranged by the University of…
1 June 1967 - Review of Australian Writers by L.J. Blake
Even if Australian Writers were free from the kind of careless error in which it unhappily abounds I don't think I should find much to…
1 May 1969 - Vance and Nettie Palmer: The Literary Journalism
Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…
1 October 1973 - Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…
1 October 1993 - Australian Literature : Points for Departure
In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent…
1 October 1999 - New Directions : Introduction
The publication of two essays on 'the state of the discipline' (to borrow a title from the ADE Bulletin) is not a response to…
1 October 1999 - The Ethics of Abjection: Patrick White’s ‘Riders in the Chariot’
Michael Wilding has recently discussed Patrick White's modernism in terms of White's disdain for what he famously called the 'exaltation of the "average"' in Australian…
1 October 1997 - Review of A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900, edited by Nicholas Biros and Rebecca McNeer.
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900 offers a fresh perspective on Australian literature. This thought-provoking companion is edited by two North American scholars (many…
1 May 2009 - Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 20071 October 2008
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 20051 May 2006
- Review of Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, edited by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
What is the value in a collection of conference papers like Imagining Australia that canvasses such a diverse array of scholarly topics? The book is…
1 May 2006 - ‘Deadly’ Work : Reading the Short Fiction of Archie Weller1 October 1993
Contributors
- David Carter
- John Colmer
- Robert Clarke
- Leigh Dale
- Leigh Dale
- Maryanne Dever
- Annette Hildyard
- Geoffrey Hiller
- Carol Hetherington
- Carol Hetherington
- Brian Kiernan
- Leonie Kramer
- Leonie Kramer
- S. E. Lee
- Janine Little
- W. M. Maidment
- F. H. Mares
- Andrew McCann
- Irmtraud Petersson
- Irmtraud Petersson
- Bruce Sutherland
- Vivian Smith
- Gillian Whitlock