Novels & novelists
Articles
- Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and Robbery Under Arms
Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters…
1 October 1989 - Review of Australian Culture Elites by John Docker and The Australian Experience edited by W.S. Ransom
The simultaneous appearance of these two books indicates the growing interest in Australian literary-cultural studies. Neither, unfortunately, has any strong organizing framework of informing theory…
1 May 1975 - The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: The Film of the Book
Clancy examines Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, considering the difficulties the novel's plot and technique present the filmmaker…
1 May 1979 - Problems Facing Contemporary Novelists
In one of Patrick White's novels it is said that to the poor poverty is never a theory only a fact. And something analogous may…
1 October 1979 - The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally
That war is both a monstrous, but an ineradicably human activity a horror for individuals but an essential element in the making and memory of…
1 October 1986 - Death and Home-Work: The Origins of Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Mead considers the role of death in the narrative and argues that it is a powerful cultural symbol because of its thematic connections with the…
1 October 1995