A.D. Hope, Leonie Kramer and Laurie Hergenhan discuss the significance of Australian Literary Studies and its contribution to the study and teaching of Australian Literature.
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century there is growing evidence of attempts to encourage the spread of literary culture and Australian writing…
Kramer reviews the following monographs:
Henry Kingsley and Colonial Fiction by John Barnes (Australian Writers and Their Work series, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971).
The…
The Gordon legend is too well known to bear repetition. His anniversary however, has been a quiet affair, and its failure to attract the enthusiastic…
The neutral title of this anthology of writing about Australian literature might well obscure the fact that the editor sees it as providing some of…
At the moment there is a good deal of responsible and competent literary criticism being written in Australia, and the study of an Australian literature…
'Whatever a stern criticism may say as to the abiding merit of his work, at least there can be no doubt as to the value…