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…

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…

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

Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, sociaf worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published a biography in 2003, a book which…