It is now some thirty years since Poor Fellow My Country was published, twenty since Xavier Herbert died. Both novel and author have fallen into…
Editor's Note: The 1999 Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture is reprinted here because of its wider relevance to developments in Australian literary studies, a main topic…
These two titles are the first in a series of specialised monographs published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature [ASAL]. The first…
H.P. Heseltine discusses his memories of the writer Dal Stivens.
I propose in this paper to exercise the critic's prerogative (duty?) of articulating an artist's intuitions about his own work into a more formal and…
Provides a brief biographical sketch of Xavier Herbert and an overview of his literary career.
Neither M. Barnard Eldershaw nor Marjorie Barnard seems to me to emerge from this study as a writer of notably enlarged stature; the outlines and…
Probably nobody in the world knows more about Henry Lawson than Professor Roderick. In recent years he has given us his three volume edition of…
The first of these two books, is one of the 'Writers and Their Work' series produced by the British Council. Its aim is presumably to…
'Facts are stubborn things', writes Denton Prout on p. 201 of Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer, 'and it is a biographer's duty to reveal…
Although Sea and Sky (1908) and Swags Up (1928) record Brereton's movement towards both individual concerns and a personal idiom, his whole achievement has its…