Peter Carey
Articles
- English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in Oscar and Lucinda
My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…
1 October 1995 - Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly
Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…
1 May 2002 - Reading Carey Reading Malley
Discusses the connection between Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake (2003) and the Ern Malley hoax. 'The novel demonstrates what the hoax itself revealed…
1 October 2004 - On the Genealogy of Democracy: Reading Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America
Discusses Carey's examining of 'the historical rise of democracy in a way that challenges the prevailing consensus, from Churchill to Fukuyama, that this system represents…
1 June 2012 - An Infinite Onion: Narrative Structure in Peter Carey’s Fiction
Discusses Carey's approach to writing narrative and about narrative, focusing on Harry Joy's stories in Bliss. Dovey shows how the novel foregrounds the…
1 October 1983 - Review of Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, edited by Andreas Gaile
In difficult publishing times such as ours, when it becomes something of a gamble to try and sell an edited collection of essays on a…
1 May 2006 - Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey
The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the…
1 October 1993 - A Tale of Two Countries: Jack Maggs and Peter Carey’s Fiction
Peter Carey has generally preferred to fictionalise Australia at a remove, to reimagine it, shape-shifted out of its present appearance by science fiction transformations, or…
1 October 1997 - Peter Carey
An excerpt from an interview with Peter Carey by Craig Munro, discussing Carey's career and approach to writing.
1 October 1977 - American Dreaming : The Fictions of Peter Carey
Examines the relationship between Carey’s fiction and international forms, particularly American forms and meanings.
1 October 1986 - Authors’ Statements [Peter Carey]
Peter Carey discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - ‘Years Later’: Temporality and Closure in Peter Carey’s Novels
Peter Carey's novels are usually treated as works of postmodern fiction. This is obviously appropriate, but it can also be limiting. A.J. Hassall makes an…
1 October 1999 - Harry Joy’s Children: The Art of Story Telling in Peter Carey’s Bliss
Peter Carey began his literary career as a short story writer, and his first novel Bliss (1981) is certainly more of a continuation with than…
1 May 1994 - 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 - Review of Peter Carey, by Graham Huggan, and Peter Carey, by Bruce Woodcock
Does any internationally regarded Australian writer have a more unsettled reputation than Peter Carey? This is not simply a matter, as Graham Huggan says in…
1 October 1997 - Preying on the Past: Contexts of Some Recent Neo-Historical Fiction
Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins…
1 October 1992 - A Ghost Story in Two Part : Charles Dickens, Peter Carey, and Avenging Phantoms
It is only just that an argument about phantoms begin by introducing its own ghosts. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth prowl the shadows of Charles Dickens's…
1 October 2004 - Gambling on Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda
Discusses Oscar and Lucinda as a post-modern historical novel. 'Inhabiting the genre it wants to deconstruct, i.e. the nineteenth-century historical novel, it undermines its basic…
1 June 1991 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
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Contributors
- Bill Ashcroft
- Ruth Brown
- Alice Brittan
- Peter Carey
- Peter Carey
- Teresa Dovey
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- Graham Huggan
- Anthony J. Hassall
- Christer Larsson
- Bronwyn Lacken
- Peter D. Mathews
- Craig Munro
- Peter Pierce
- Peter Pierce
- Kirsten Holst Petersen
- Antonella Riem Natale
- Graeme Turner
- Graeme Turner
- Jean-François Vernay