Novel writing
Articles
- Capricornia : Recovering the Imaginative Vision of a Polemical Novel
Discusses and compares drafts, revisions, and typescript fragments of Capricornia (particularly of Chapter Three) with regard to the imaginative vision of the novel.
1 May 1981 - 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 - ‘Scorched Earth’, Washington and the Missing Manuscript of Christina Stead’s I’m Dying Laughing
Pender’s article reveals information from newly discovered Christina Stead manuscripts, and proposes a new reading, in the light of these materials, of Stead’s posthumously published novel I’m Dying Laughing (ed. by Ron Geering).
1 May 2004 - Enlarging Our Experiments with Narrative: John A. Scott’s Triology with Annotations1 May 1992
- Interview with David Malouf1 May 2010