Symbolism

To read Patrick White's The Living and the Dead and The Solid Mandala in sequence is to follow a writer from the experimental and the…

Stewart argues that the “vagueness” critics have found in Neilson’s poetry should be seen as a “mysterious quality”, not a “lack of mastery over syntax…

The recent death of Francis Webb has left a body of work that is unique in circumstance, stature, and conception in Australian poetry There are…

Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves (1976) is based on the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle north of Fraser Island in 1836, the subsequent…

Tracing the poet's recourse to philosophical and theological ideas, Croft argues that 'The Face of the Waters' leaves an impression of 'terror and incomprehension at…

Last year it looked as though the long projected plans for making a film of Patrick White's Voss were all under way. Joseph Losey, whom…

Discusses Winton's fiction, including That Eye, The Sky in terms of vision, time, gender and language, arguing that the work is animated by a set…

Coetzee’s fiction ‘calls into question [the] longstanding cultural assumption of human superiority [over animals]. His novels Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, in particular, foreground philosophical…

John Tranter recently pointed out the irony that it was he who was interested in Rimbaud and Robert Adamson who was interested in Mallarme, since…

The relatively early novel A Kindness Cup, which focuses on the massacre of a group of Aborigines and the efforts made to forget and…

Argues that understanding Porter's plays is key to understanding his work as a whole. Focusing on The Tower (1963), Capone traces Porter's debt to a…

Commentators have been quick to recognise Wafer, Item’s protagonist as a Christ-figure, and to discuss aspects of what Roslynn Haynes perceived to be a…