Imagery

There is a clear autobiographical dimension to Beverley Farmer's fiction: her own life and experience provide the material that goes into her writing, and the…

A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…

The significance of recurrent imagery in Patrick White's novels, not only as it contributes to a distinctive stylistic texture but also as a vehicle for…

McLaren responds to Sylvia Gzell's criticism of his reading of some symbols in Voss and Riders in the Chariot as 'sentimental' (Australian Literary Studies…

Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals…

It has been generally accepted that the theme of Capricornia is racial conflict. The book's virtues are most often described in terms of that conflict…

Christopher Brennan's sequence 'The Wanderer' does not have to be defended as one c the most important literary artefacts of Australia's most interesting literary decade…

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…

Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves (1976) is based on the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle north of Fraser Island in 1836, the subsequent…

Winton discusses his career, literary influences, and approach to form and style.

Gerald Murnane's second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds, was published in 1976 only two years after Tamarisk Row. It is Murnane's last attempt…

Janette Turner Hospital is a writer who travels: geographically, spiritually, emotionally, generically. She takes risks, crosses borders, makes radical departures (her third novel is entitled…

An interview with writer Carmel Bird.

The article presents a critical overview of Carmel Bird’s writing, particularly her four major novels. Suggesting that there is a continuity of pattern, theme and…

Among the cultural 'hetero-images' in Australian writing of the past four decades, German images have, for obvious reasons, been mostly unfavourable. They have usually emphasised…

In Stow's work, the symbolic use of names and colours is deeply influenced not only by an 'imported' orthodox Christian inheritance but also by Stow's…

The disruptiveness of The Transit of Venus can clearly be detected in Hazzard's treatment of history; in the way she explores the connections between the…

Examines one of Slessor’s central preoccupations—his fascination with drowning—and its significance in Slessor’s work.

Duwell surveys the writing life of Andrew Taylor which, in his view, has so far only received fairly superficial and fragmented critical comment and ‘awaits…