Literary portrayal
Articles
- Marcus Clarke’s ‘Chidiock Tichbourne’1 October 1974
- Out of Context : A Study of Thomas Keneally’s Novels1 May 1969
- D. H. Lawrence’s Australia
Discusses Lawrence’s image of Australia as presented in his novel Kangaroo. Argues that Lawrence saw Australia essentially ‘as an alien, primeval, indifferent land, sombre…
1 October 1970 - Between Scylla and Charybdis : ‘Kangaroo’ and the Form of the Political Novel
The form of Kangaroo has found few admirers. John Middleton Murry described it as 'a chaotic book. It has many passages of great descriptive beauty…
1 October 1970 - The ‘Dark’ Element in Hugh McCrae1 October 1973
- The Imagination of John Shaw Neilson1 May 1971
- Some Major Themes in the Novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard
A passionate love of the land and of the people who live close to the soil is the source of Katharine Susannah Prichard's writing. Like…
1 June 1963 - An Interview with Carter Brown1 May 1975
- The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
‘This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert…
1 October 2010 - Themes and Imagery in ‘Voss’ and ‘Riders in the Chariot’1 June 1964
- Xavier Herbert : ‘Capricornia’1 October 1970
- Bodies that Speak : Mediating Female Embodiment in Tim Winton’s Fiction
As a 'regional celebrity writer' of national and international acclaim, Australian writer Tim Winton contributes to the process of re- defining sustaining myths of identity…
1 June 2012 - On the Genealogy of Democracy : Reading Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America
As the epigraph for True History ifthe Kelly Gang (2000), Peter Carey chooses these lines from William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (1950): 'The past…
1 June 2012 - ‘Deadly’ Work : Reading the Short Fiction of Archie Weller1 October 1993
- Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel
Discusses the growing (and shifting) interest of Australian writers in Asian cultures, religions and philosophies and gives an overview of the representation of Asia in…
1 October 1984 - ‘Preserving the White Race’ : Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this…
1 October 1985 - Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark’s Prelude to Christopher
‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest…
1 June 2011 - Asia, Europe and Australian Identity : The Novels of Christopher Koch1 May 1982
- An Interview with Archie Weller1 October 1993
- Biography and Fiction : George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane’s Biography1 May 1988
Contributors
- Australia Council
- Robert Burns
- Carter Brown
- Merlinda Bobis
- Jan Bassett
- Dennis Douglas
- Sylvia Gzell
- John Heuzenroeder
- Stephen Knight
- Brian Kiernan
- Janine Little
- Janine Little
- Ellen Malos
- Peter Mathews
- Anne Maxwell
- F. H. Mares
- Hannah Schuerholz
- Helen Tiffin
- Helen Tiffin
- Michael Wilding
- Michael Wilding
- John Webb
- Archie Weller