Fictional characters

Rodriguez provides evidence that the character of Nosey Alf in Such is Life is based on the historical figure of Johanna Jorgensen, who lived for…

McDonald attempts to show how Clarke’s narrative technique reconciles naturalistic and melodramatic elements. The use of a shifting narrative perspective enables Rufus Dawes to be…

IT has been overlooked that George Johnston's character, David Meredith did not spring fully-formed from the pages of My Brother Jack to be developed in …

A demand that beliefs be embodied and presented, or indeed placed on trial, forms a persistent refrain of J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. It is…

Thomas Keneally discusses his literary interest in war and history, his work's relationship to Australian literature more broadly, and his process of turning fact into…

Although a handful of her stories have contemporary settings, most of Olga Masters' work celebrates 'the boredom, the horror and the glory' of small town…

This article can only be part of a comprehensive study of the reception of Patrick White. It comprises the range of reception indicated by a…

It is a truism, in the world of Barbara Hanrahan's novels, that human beings are torn between opposing forces; the divided self is one of…

Castro discusses the relationship of his work to literary theory, questions of authorship, style and genre, and the purpose of literature.

Examines the mode of characterisation prevalent in Australian fiction, a mode which presents character as “the product of social, extrinsic determinants rather than as the…