Australian literature - International influences

This paper examines Henry Kingsley's critical reception and his uncertain position in nineteenth century literary history. Wellings examines elements of Ravenshoe otherwise not accounted for…

A reappraisal of Baylebridge’s work in the light of what the author calls an ‘ambivalent’ attitude of previous critics towards Baylebridge.

Discusses early Australian theatre and drama in examining the question: Who wrote the first Australian play?

On close examination, Harpur's general poetics are certainly Wordsworthian (if Wordsworth's name is used as a focus-point in English literature for a complex set of…

Both the recent accounts of the growth of interest in Marvell, like that of Legouis before them, neglect to mention the Australian poet Charles Harpur…

Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…

My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…

A biography of J.S. (John Streeter) Manifold (1915-1985). See this issue for a number of Manifold's poems.

In his introduction to the anthology of Aboriginal poetry, Inside Black Australia Kevin Gilbert writes: 'Aboriginal poetry rattles, flings and bends the chains and…

Greek myth relates how Pegasus, immediately after its birth, flew to Mount Helicon, where the stamping of its hoofs caused the Hippocrene Spring, the source…

Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine…

For six decades in the second half of the twentieth century, Ruth Park published her fiction and non-fiction frequently locally, and internationally. Park’s connections with…