Ethics
Articles
- Marcus Clarke: ‘Christianity is Dead’
In November 1879 the first issue of the Victorian Review carried an article by Marcus Clarke, 'Civilization without Delusion', in which Clarke discussed the role…
1 October 1973 - Ages of Reason: Ethics, Metaphor and the Work of Jennifer Maiden
In Sartre's novel, at the much quoted point at which the protagonist affirms 'I recognize no allegiance except to myself ... all I want is…
1 May 1996 - Two Answers to Every Question: Elizabeth Jolley’s Fiction, Ethics and Criticism
Argues that close examination of her fictions shows 'Jolley continually intervening not to provide neat judgements and solutions, but to set up several opposing ethical…
1 May 1995 - Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateer’s poem.
1 June 2010 - Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet
The psychology of guilt as debt is a recurrent theme in Tim Winton’s fiction. A number of scholars have recently examined the theme of haunting…
26 February 2017 - ‘Like a Novel’: Literary Aesthetics, Nonfiction Ethics, and the S-Town podcast
This article argues that the longform, immersive podcast is a significant site for tracing some of the rapidly changing contexts and ongoing debates of nonfiction…
30 April 2021