Country vs city
Articles
- Urban Influence on Australian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…
1 October 1975 - Voss and His Communications: A Structural Contrast
In bringing Sydney and the Bush to function in a set of relations which are symbolic, [Patrick White's Voss] demonstrates that in place of…
1 October 1982 - Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
Some of the subtlety of Les A. Murray's poetry is suggested by the way it both invites critical commentary on seemingly straightforward themes and values…
1 May 1988 - Country Poetry and Town Poetry: A Debate
Don Anderson and Peter Porter in conversation, debating Les Murray's critique of Porter's poem 'On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod'. The conversation focuses on the…
1 May 1979 - Shopping at Last!: History, Fiction and the Anti-Suburban Tradition
Discusses 'sympathetic' representations of suburbia in Australian non-fiction and American fiction, arguing that these works offer guides for augmenting the anti-suburban tradition in Australia, which…
1 November 1998