Murray Bail
Articles
- ‘The Great Australian Emptiness’ Revisited: Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance
If, as Dean MacCannell argues, tourism is the quest for a 'reality' and an 'authenticity' that are thought to be always 'elsewhere' (160), then it…
1 May 1991 - Murray Bail
A brief statement from Murray Bail, describing his relationship to 'Australian literature' and approach to narrative.
1 October 1977 - Review of The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail by Michael Ackland
The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail by Michael Ackland is the first book-length publication to explore Bail's writing, and makes a welcome addition to the…
1 October 2013 - Authors’ Statements [Murray Bail]
Murray Bail discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Some Developments in Short Fiction, 1969-1980
Discusses contemporary short fiction by writers including Murray Bail, Peter Cowan, Hal Porter, Michael Wilding and Frank Moorhouse, who transformed a genre most readily associated…
1 October 1981 - Patrick White and Murray Bail: Appropriations of ‘The Prodigal Son’
Placement of authors within literary traditions and discourses is an active, continual process. Both authors and critics often rely upon their predecessors in the categorisation…
1 May 1991 - Under Twenty-Five and the ‘Lost’ Stories of Murray Bail and Peter Carey
Lacken explores early uncollected stories by Carey and Bail, published in the anthology Under Twenty-Five, and assesses their significance in the development of the…
1 October 2010