Allegory
Articles
- Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet’s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by…
1 May 1990 - Review of Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics, by Tanya Dalziell
Grouping sets of novels and stories to elucidate the functions of key tropes in Jones’s fiction, Dalziell covers the writer’s entire output up to 2020…
30 April 2021 - Displaced Homelands in Gerald Murnane’s Inland
Gerald Murnane is the pre-eminent chronicler of Irish-Australian Catholic male youth: its spiritual curiosity, onanistic fantasies and inevitable guilt, and the irresistible attraction to the…
30 September 2021 - Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant…
30 September 2021