Mythology
Articles
- Proserpina and Pluto, Ariadne and Bacchus: Myth in Patrick White’s ‘Dead Roses’
White's use of myth in Dead Roses is organic, not casual or accidental. Not the least of its merits is that it helps to buoy…
1 May 1981 - The Significance of Littoral in Beverley Farmer’s Novel The Seal Woman
This essay ‘offers some thoughts on the transformative possibility of the littoral in Beverley Farmer’s novel The Seal Woman, and a brief discussion of…
1 October 2009 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…
30 September 2021