Paper first presented at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) in July 2000 in Hobart. It is concerned with…
Peter Carey has generally preferred to fictionalise Australia at a remove, to reimagine it, shape-shifted out of its present appearance by science fiction transformations, or…
Convicts have loomed large in the Australian consciousness, and Australians in search of national identity or self-understanding have had to come to terms, in one…
Randolph Stow discusses his career, approach to writing, inspiration and travel, among other topics.
Argues that the book is 'an account of the psychodrama of Cawdor's last weeks, and that the information we are given to help us penetrate…