Literary canon
Articles
- Reading My Brilliant Career
Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…
1 October 2002 - ‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s: Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
This paper analyses a single aspect of Australian literary culture in a particular historical period, namely its interest in 'greatness' - great books and great…
1 May 1995 - Blue Corner and Red Corner, Metropolis and Province: Literature and Education in Contemporary Australia
'It is a grave mistake—politically, morally, tactically, strategically pedagogically—in any way to defend poetry by promoting its remoteness or its professional status, such as that…
1 June 2013 - Review of Australian Literary Criticism since 1901, by Peng Qinglong
Writing a history of literary criticism is undoubtedly challenging in that it requires the writer’s expertise in two aspects: how to unify both theoretical and…
29 October 2020