Isolation (Emotional & social)
Articles
- Erocide Is Painless: Insensation in Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune
Advances the view that the experience of insensation by the main character in Fredy Neptune is linked to Murray’s own painful experiences of sexual teasing…
1 November 2008 - The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women’s Writing [1992]
Displaced from all that is familiar, the colonial subject experiences disorientation; a confusion which is represented in the dislocating experience of emigration and the ambivalent…
1 May 1992 - Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988 - ‘The Loaded Dog’: A Celebration
Argues that discussion of the 'meaning, artistry and cultural significance [of 'The Loaded Dog'] can help us to appreciate the significance of Lawson's comic celebration…
1 October 1983 - Imagined Counterpart: Outlining a Conceptual Literary Geography of Australia
Australian literature has been more diligent in literally metaphorically and self-consciously mapping the continent than almost any other old or emerging national literature. There seems…
1 June 1991 - Introduction
The idea of putting together a group of papers taking up European perspectives on Australian literature came to me as the need to pick a…
1 June 1991