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 - A.G. Stephens : The Critical Credo1 December 1964
- Vance and Nettie Palmer : The Literary Journalism1 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
- Review of Authority and Influence: A ustralian Literary Criticism I950-2000, edited by Delys Bird, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee.
In a recent issue of the UK journal Australian Studies, David Callahan notes a shift towards foregrounding 'questions of hermeneutics and first principles' in…
1 May 2002 - Review of Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women 's Fiction, by Elaine Lindsay, and Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions, edited by Frances Devlin-Giass and Lynn McCredden.
It is not only global weather patterns that are changing, it seems. It is hard to imagine being asked to review two books dealing with…
1 May 2002 - Review of The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy, by Jennifer Rutherford.
Jennifer Rutherford's The Gauche Intruder is one of tl1e few works of Australian cultural critique to use Lacanian psychoanalysis in detail as methodology and framework…
1 May 2002 - Review of Mapped But Not Known: The Australian Landscape of the Imagination, ed. P .R. Eadcn and F.H. Mares
This festschrift in honour of Dr Brian Elliott is to be doubly welcomed, as a tribute and as a valuable collection ofessays and poems on…
1 May 1988 - Challenging History Making: Realism, Revolution and Utopia in The Timeless Land
Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals…
1 May 1995 - ‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s : Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
Literary studies has for some time now been rediscovering the value and interest of an analytical style of literary history, one that tries - not…
1 May 1995 - Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey1 October 1993
- Randolph Stow’s ‘Outrider’ and the French Voyager Poem
Whereas the negative early criticism of Tourmaline (1963) found cogent, if belated rebuttal in the articles of A.D. Hope and Helen Tiffin that appeared ten…
1 October 1997
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