Myths & legends

Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…

This essay offers a consideration of what I take to be the convention of 'metaphysical' pastoral in Australian poetry, together with some speculation as to…

Christopher Koch discusses his career and approach to writing.

A good academic paper, like a river, is a fluent intertwining, an intermingling and winding together of strands of material from different sources which all…

Examines the use of literary allusions by Koch, and his search for a spiritual ‘otherland’, and focuses on the dialectic between Hell and Paradise, damnation…

Malouf's choice of subject matter is not arbitrary. His story is one version of an archetypal Romantic story, whose particulars change according to the teller…

As a feminist Qovel of self-discovery, Dreamhouse works within a framework of realism, put also draws on the codes and conventions of a number of…

Randolph Stow discusses his career, approach to writing, inspiration and travel, among other topics.

Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.

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…

Discusses contemporary rewritings of Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife', including versions by Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Barbara Jefferis, Anna Gambling and Ola Masters/ Argues that these…