Wit & humour

Hal Porter's early short stories may be seen as constant experiments designed to solve the problems associated with maintaining effective distance from his material and…

Gwen Harwood is always having fun with the professors but the professors seem rather wary of her; at any rate they hardly ever write about…

When an Aboriginal writer appropriates western literary forms to tell stories of pre-invasion tribal heritage and culture, there is little objection from many black or…

Steele Rudd has recently been designated one of the fifty 'greats' who most helped to shape Australia. His selection stories and their varied stage, film…

This collection of essays, by a group of authors noted for their substantial contributions to the field of Australian literary studies, provides a valuable and…

For a writer whose reputation rests on a single book, and who has been ignored in all the histories of Australian literature, Lennie Lower shows…

Regardless of whether they accepted or utterly rejected their imposed role as members of God's police and gatekeepers of the social class structure, women have…

Wallace-Crabbe discusses the ways in which the stories of Joe Wilson and His Mates connect to produce a larger unified work. Lawson’s self-analysis in this…

What I want to explore in this essay is the wit with which, in Voss, White responds to the challenge and to the gender…