War literature
Articles
- The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel Her Privates We
No one seems to have made a detailed critical analysis of the work as a novel, although it was conveniently labelled one of the finest…
1 October 1974 - Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey
Whereas almost the entire amount of significant Australian poetry relating to the First World War had appeared in print by 1921, the bulk of the…
1 October 1971 - A Checklist of Australian Literature of World War I
The following checklist is arranged in three sections to cover published volumes of Verse (p. 148), Fiction (p. 156), and Personal Narratives (p. 159). It…
1 October 1969 - Arthur and Emily: A Note on a World War I Novel
In 1973, the Monash University Library acquired from the Australian bookseller Burge Lopez, a manuscript itemised as 'an anonymous unpublished typescript novel' (Arthur and…
1 May 1990 - [Statement]
T.A.G. Hungerford responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…
1 October 1985 - ‘There are no lost cities in Australia’: Losing and Finding Australia in the Work of Alan Moorehead
In the Australian in 1966 Alan Moorehead was claimed to be the author 'who has written more successful books than any other Australian' (Pocock, Alan…
1 May 1999 - Anzac, Literary Genre and Memory
Because of their textual brevity, poems and short stories can be written (and sometimes published) closer in time to the events which prompted them than…
1 October 1996 - 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
Contributors
- Bruce Bennett
- David Callahan
- T. A. G. Hungerford
- Holger Klein
- J. T. Laird
- J. T. Laird
- Peter Pierce
- James Wieland