Landscape & identity

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…

Pablo Neruda (born 1904) and Judith Wright (born 1915) are world poets. Not only has their work been widely read within the worlds of Spanish…

When an Aboriginal writer appropriates western literary forms to tell stories of pre-invasion tribal heritage and culture, there is little objection from many black or…

Discusses the cultural significance of architecture in Australian fiction, particularly houses.

The image of the journey in time characterises much of twentieth-century fiction--Joyce, Mann, Proust, Svevo and Woolf bear witness--and finds in Australian writing a fertile…

The refrain of Randolph Stow's 'Outrider' echoes throughout his work as a central, counterpointed theme. Like a descant moving further and further away from its…

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…

Tucker examines the representation of landscape in Asian-Australian women’s writing in terms of the aesthetics of Australian literature.

Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…

Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…

Alan Gould discusses his literary career, approach to writing, and influences.

Lee conducts a semiotic analysis of the reception of Henry Lawson and his works, revealing the connections critics made between the work, the hand of…

Mitchell looks to Kendall’s poetry for a “system of images that amount to a loose poetic philosophy, an attitude of mind that is formulated emotionally…

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…

Poetry taken as a highly personal, imaginative emotionally experimental but epistemologically unprotected mode of utterance is able to indicate processes of intellectual orientation which precede…

This article argues that salt functions as a transformative marking and shaping agent in Tim Winton’s work. Salt scars both people and place (externally and…