Australian literature - Comparisons with overseas literature

Dorothy Green is quite right when she notes that Grant Watson's psychological and metaphysical disturbance looks forward to the novels of Patrick White, although the…

Few Australian critics would to-day be prepared to say that the Australian theatre contributes on equal terms with other centres of activity to the development…

On close examination, Harpur's general poetics are certainly Wordsworthian (if Wordsworth's name is used as a focus-point in English literature for a complex set of…

‘Patrick White’s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements…

There was a time, though I think that time is past, when a young girl's first public appearance at a ball was a very significant…

Discusses an American novel, Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America, set during the Boston uprising of 1689. Written by Rufus Dawes, Innes suggests…

Provides a bibliography of works engaged with the subject of 'Australian literature' broadly conceived. It aims at giving a diversified picture of Australian literature by…

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

Discusses Keneally's fictional treatment of homosexuality, particularly in A Victim of the Aurora snd Bring Larks and Heroes.

Tiffin reviews the following volumes:

Commonwealth Literature, by William Walsh (Oxford University Press, 1973).

Literatures of the World in English, ed. by Bruce…

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…

A. G. Stephens came to be identified as the focal figure of this nationalistic literary movement. A closer examination of 'The Red Page' itself shows…

Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…

Whatever else might be said about them, the last ten years have been a stimulating time in the study of Australian writing, nowhere perhaps more…

Kenneth Slessor is accepted by virtually every literary commentator as one of Australia's most important poets but no-one has commented on the young Slessor's concern…

Discusses a number of histories of Australian literature and their authors’ approaches, and suggests new modes of writing Australian literary history.

The essay examines the literary consequences of an Australian need for an enemy in the nation-building and myth-making process, and traces how perceptions of the…

Compares the work of Gail Jones with that of New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox.

Explores similarities between Murray and Gerard Manley Hopkins particularly in their use of highly visual and evocative language.

Analyses Fredy Neptune within the context of the epic tradition and explores similarities and differences between Murray’s work and the narratives of Derek Walcott, Seamus…