Ethics
Articles
- Marcus Clarke: ‘Christianity is Dead’
In November 1879 the first issue of the Victorian Review carried an article by Marcus Clarke, 'Civilization without Delusion', in which Clarke discussed the role…
1 October 1973 - Ages of Reason: Ethics, Metaphor and the Work of Jennifer Maiden
In Sartre's novel, at the much quoted point at which the protagonist affirms 'I recognize no allegiance except to myself ... all I want is…
1 May 1996 - Two Answers to Every Question : Elizabeth Jolley’s Fiction, Ethics and Criticism
In The Newspaper of Claremont Street the major character, the one who has the reader's sympathy, deliberately leaves an acquaintance to die of exposure. The…
1 May 1995 - Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateer’s poem.
1 June 2010 - Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet
The psychology of guilt as debt is a recurrent theme in Tim Winton’s fiction. A number of scholars have recently examined the theme of haunting…
26 February 2017