Australian literature - Overseas responses

Hergenhan reads and compares contemporary reviews of Geoffry Hamlin, noting differences in the novel's reception between Australian and English reviews.

Pons gives an overview of Australian literature in French translation, and their reception in France.

The increased attention to the literature of the Commonwealth countries owes something to the search of literary scholars for subjects less encrusted with critical and…

'Whatever a stern criticism may say as to the abiding merit of his work, at least there can be no doubt as to the value…

Whatever happened to Alan Seymour? For a time, in the early sixties he was generally considered to rank second only to Ray Lawler among Australian…

Condescension used to be the besetting sin of British and other 'foreign' critics of Australian literature. The boot is now on the other foot. When…

This article surveys the reception of a German translation (by Thomas Eichhorn, 2004) of Murray’s Fredy Neptune in German-speaking countries. It looks at responses to…

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…

'What Australian authors are there? And what do we honestly know about this strange, distant part of the world? What do we really know about…

That the novel readers of colonial Australia took an interest in American fiction was abundantly demonstrated in contemporary sources—from the many direct and indirect references…

Malouf reviews Il Verme e La Rosa, La Narrativa di Patrick White by Pietro Spinucci (1983), the first full-length study of Patrick White in Italian.

Reviews special Australian issues of overseas literary journals, including World Literature Written in English (11, 1972) ed. Laurie Hergenhan, Stand (v, 16, 1975), ed. Michael…

Periodicals of the 19th century comprehensively informed English readers about journeys to Australia as well as about travels and expeditions on the continent. How extensive…

C. Hartley Grattan and his Australia and Southwest Pacific Collection arrived at the University of Texas in Austin in 1964. I arrived there at the…

Tiffin reviews the following volumes:

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

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

This article can only be part of a comprehensive study of the reception of Patrick White. It comprises the range of reception indicated by a…

This this is concerned mainly with the state of poetry in Australia at the end of the last century, and in particular with what was…

Describes the European reception of Thomas Shapcott's poetry in light of his winning the 1989 Poetry Prize at the Struga Festival in Macedonia, one of…

Special Australian Literature numbers have been a feature of several overseas journals in recent years. Whether they emanate from Canada or India, France or Italy…

Webby presents a detailed analysis of the first two Australian volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.