Thea Astley
Articles
- Review of Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds, edited by Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni
This publication offers an overdue acknowledgement of Thea Astley's achievement and a timely appraisal of her reputation as an outstanding Australian fiction writer. The collection…
1 October 2008 - Voices in Time: A Kindness Cup and Miss Peabody’s Inheritance
Discusses the narrative methods of Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup and Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance, in particular Astley's attention to narrative chronology and…
1 October 1986 - Authors’ Statements [Thea Astley]
Thea Astley discusses her approach to writing short fiction.
1 October 1981 - Colonial History and Post-Colonial Fiction : The Writing of Thea Astley
The relatively early novel A Kindness Cup, which focuses on the massacre of a group of Aborigines and the efforts made to forget and…
1 May 1999 - Thea Astley’s An Item from the Late News: A Fictional Fifth Gospel
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…
29 October 2020 - 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…
30 September 2021