Literary techniques, structures & modes
Articles
- Out of Context : A Study of Thomas Keneally’s Novels1 May 1969
- The Design of ‘For the Term of His Natural Life’1 October 1974
- The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel ‘Her Privates We’1 October 1974
- 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, but internally it is a chaos'; Julian Moynahan has written that 'from a formal point…
1 October 1970 - Hal Porter’s Comic Mode1 October 1970
- Barry Oakley and the Satiric Mode1 May 1975
- Slessor’s ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’
A close reading of Slessor’s sequence, focussing on the nature of the visions and the visionaries; the use Slessor makes of his sources; and questions of unity. Argues that the sequence has a unity of purpose: to consider Cook’s stature…
1 May 1969 - Themes and Imagery in ‘Voss’ and ‘Riders in the Chariot’1 June 1964
- Jolley’s Women
The essay about Jolley’s women ‘looks at the ways in which Jolley represents women’s longing for other women; it argues that this longing is central to her representation of female characters and the feminine condition. Jolley’s literary style, her writing…
1 May 2009 - Elizabeth Jolley’s Late Work
The article looks at the last four novels by Jolley which were ‘somewhat neglected by scholars’. Taken as a body of ‘late work’ with some evidence of ‘late style’ (Edward Said), ‘might give them a more acknowledged place in a…
1 May 2009 - Anachronism, Ekphrasis and the ‘Shape of Time’ in The Great Fire
Readers of Shirley Hazzard's fiction have long been familiar with the ways her densely allusive prose embeds her stories and her characters in uropean art and writing. While the plots of her novels follow the political and social dramas of…
1 October 2008 - An Infinite Onion : Narrative Structure in Peter Carey’s Fiction1 October 1983
- Facts and Fiction: Revaluing Helen Simpson’s ‘Boomerang’1 October 1982
- Fact and Fiction : The Scissors and Paste Job1 May 1985
- The Chant of Thomas Keneally
Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the ‘well-made novel’. Argues that ‘a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us, not only what Keneally’s novel explicitly states, that there is a limit to understanding white…
1 May 1982 - The Reconstruction of Self : Background and Design in George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy
Using biographical criticism as its methodological starting point, Kinnane’s article discusses Johnston’s way of creating fiction out of personal experience, highlights where he departs from fact, and shows how the autobiographical material is used, selected and shaped to fit in…
1 October 1984 - Capricornia : Seasonal, Diurnal and Colour Patterns
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, rather than in terms of any attempt to analyse, explain or investigate it. Thus breadth…
1 October 1979 - Voices in Time : A Kindness Cup and Miss Peabody’s Inheritance1 October 1986
- Discoveries and Transformations : Aspects of David Malouf’s Work
Discusses Malouf’s ‘elusive’ fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.
1 May 1984 - A New Version of Pastoral : Developments in Michael Wilding’s Fiction1 October 1983
Contributors
- Robert Burns
- Delys Bird
- Julian Croft
- Bruce A. Clunies Ross
- Teresa Dovey
- John Frow
- Sylvia Gzell
- Kerryn Goldsworthy
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Holger Klein
- Nigel Krauth
- Garry Kinnane
- Mary Lord
- Bronwen Levy
- K. A. McKenzie
- Neil Mudge
- Brigitta Olubas
- Annette Stewart
- Michael Wilding
- Betty L. Watson