Mateship
Articles
- Society and Nature in Such is Life
Kiernan questions whether Such is Life reflects the “spirit of the nineties” and whether the ideas that Tom Collins expresses in his digressions are simply…
1 December 1963 - An Interview with Archie Weller
Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.
1 October 1993 - ‘Did He Want to Mix and Mate with this Man?’: Mateship, Modernism and Homoerotic Primitivism
Focuses on English writers in Australia, and what these journeys mean 'in relation to the contested term "Australian modernism"'. 'In particular, I argue that the…
1 May 2012 - Mateship, Individualism and the Production of Character in Australian Fiction
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…
1 October 1984 - ‘The Loaded Dog’: A Celebration
Argues that discussion of the 'meaning, artistry and cultural significance [of 'The Loaded Dog'] can help us to appreciate the significance of Lawson's comic celebration…
1 October 1983