Literary criticism

Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters…

Lee formulates A.G. Stephens's critical credo by selecting what he deems to be representative and characteristic statements from Stephens' published and unpublished work, arguing that…

Discusses factual errors in previously published literary histories, biographies and bibliographies. Hadgraft also reveals his own methods and experience in collecting biographical data on Rowcroft.

Since Professor A. D. Hope's recent article on Gwen Harwood's 'Panther and Peacock' (ALS, V, 3 (1972), 227-232) accuses me of several varieties of impercipience…

Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…

Although Sea and Sky (1908) and Swags Up (1928) record Brereton's movement towards both individual concerns and a personal idiom, his whole achievement has its…

Gwen Harwood is always having fun with the professors but the professors seem rather wary of her; at any rate they hardly ever write about…

Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.

The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an…

Discusses Winton's representations of femininity, and particularly the close relationship between self-harm and the female body. 'What is the effect of Winton—often perceived as a…

Paradoxically, Daniel Henry Deniehy has not receded as far from the memory of historians as he has from the memory of literary historians. This situation…

The nearest approximation to a predecessor for this volume is probably Modern Commonwealth Literature, edited by John H. Ferres and Martin Thcker (New York…

Argues that Deniehy, whose concern was to foster the development of a national literature, can be claimed to have been one of the best literary…

Peter Carey's novels are usually treated as works of postmodern fiction. This is obviously appropriate, but it can also be limiting. A.J. Hassall makes an…

About a decade ago, Howard Felperin and a few others were pointing out quite correctly that Australian literary scholars had generally ignored modern critical theory…

A. G. Stephens came to be identified as the focal figure of this nationalistic literary movement. A closer examination of 'The Red Page' itself shows…

Paper first presented at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) in July 2000 in Hobart. It is concerned with…

With the possible exception of Patrick White, no Australian writer has been the subject of as much printed comment as Henry Lawson. Colin Roderick's selection…

Discusses a number of histories of Australian literature and their authors’ approaches, and suggests new modes of writing Australian literary history.

While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally…