Political ideologies
Articles
- Delight and Revolution: Literary Studies, Aesthetics and Ideology
This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the…
1 June 2013 - My Brilliant Career and Feminism
Considers My Brilliant Career in terms of Franklin's dual commitments to literature and politics: 'Could it be argued ... that Miles Franklin was so committedly…
1 October 2002 - 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 - The Dutch-Australian Connection: Willem Siebenhaar, D. H. Lawrence, Max Havelaar and Kangaroo
This thoroughly researched article traces the life and work of Dutch-born left-wing activist, theosophist, scholar and poet Willem Siebenhaar who moved to Western Australia in…
1 May 2003 - Rolf Boldrewood’s War to the Knife: Narrative Form and Ideology in the Historical Novel
In The Historical Novel, Georg Lukacs suggested that Sir Walter Scott's limited understanding of the historical present did not prevent him, as a writer…
1 May 1986 - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab as Spatial Artefact: Exploring Class and the Spatial Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Australia’s Favourite Whodunnit
Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has long been celebrated for its portrayal of the spaces and places of late-nineteenth century Melbourne. In…
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