Characterisation

The vivisector of the title is first and foremost the painter whose life story it relates, Hurtle Duffield. But it is also the creative artist…

Hergenhan reveals that after Clarke shortened the serial version of For The Term of His Natural Life for book publication a theme of redemption was…

Palmer critiques Nietzschean readings of Maurice Guest, arguing that the character of Kraft is better served by viewing him 'as a Decadent figure and…

Green examines The Young Cosima by Henry Handel Richardson, arguing that Richardson's psychological portraits, in particular of the relationships between Wagna, Liszt, Bülow and Cosima…

If, as Dean MacCannell argues, tourism is the quest for a 'reality' and an 'authenticity' that are thought to be always 'elsewhere' (160), then it…

Kiernan questions whether Such is Life reflects the “spirit of the nineties” and whether the ideas that Tom Collins expresses in his digressions are simply…

Green identifies Stone’s narrative gift in his ability to construct character through action, connecting this effect to the narrative devices of motion pictures. The limitations…

Indyk attempts to show how “the recognition of complexity and diversity is at the same time an assertion of the principles of social equality”. Because…

Clancy examines Gillian Armstrong's 1979 adaptation of My Brilliant Career, focusing on the film's approach to narrative structure and its position in contemporary Australian…

This paper analyses a single aspect of Australian literary culture in a particular historical period, namely its interest in 'greatness' - great books and great…

Discusses the novel’s historical sources and implications (Irish and Australian) and the complexities of the relationship between the two main characters, Phelim Halloran and Robert…

Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.

Peter Carey has generally preferred to fictionalise Australia at a remove, to reimagine it, shape-shifted out of its present appearance by science fiction transformations, or…

In the post-war period, the dichotomy between Realism and Modernism seemed to summarise all the important rivalries in Australian fiction — nationalist enthusiasm and political…

It is no surprise that George Johnston's prize-winning novel, My Brother Jack (1964), has often been seen as a reflection upon the self or a…

Everyone knows that novelists, like painters, draw from life. What we need to understand is more about the ways particular novelists transform real people into…

Christopher Koch discusses his career and approach to writing.

Argues that in Koch's novel, 'two strands are continually in process: the inner and outer life, the world of values and the quotidian, the mythic…

The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…

Argues that a conception of Malouf's fiction as historical is simplistic. Malouf undertakes 'fictional revisitings of moments in Australian history—moments in which, in retrospect, significant…