Graeme Turner

This is a book I was eager to read. I have long been an admirer of Peter Pierce's writing, and the subject of the study—the…

The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the…

It is hard to find a way of connecting these three books other than to suggest, lamely, that their disparate subject matter and approaches reveal…

Among the paradoxes produced by the incorporation of post-structuralist literary theory into Australian literary studies, is the recent coincidence of the widespread acceptance of the…

Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters…

There is something rather anachronistic about these two volumes of essays, H. P Heseltine's The Uncertain Self and Fay Zwicky's The Lyre in the Pawnshop…

Examines the relationship between Carey’s fiction and international forms, particularly American forms and meanings.

Penguin's publication of Docker's book indicates their sense of his potential for becoming a force in Australian literary studies (as well as their well established…

Examines the mode of characterisation prevalent in Australian fiction, a mode which presents character as “the product of social, extrinsic determinants rather than as the…