Narrative structure
Articles
- The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel Her Privates We
No one seems to have made a detailed critical analysis of the work as a novel, although it was conveniently labelled one of the finest…
1 October 1974 - The Redemptive Theme in His Natural Life
Hergenhan reveals that after Clarke shortened the serial version of For The Term of His Natural Life for book publication a theme of redemption was…
1 June 1965 - Louis Stone’s ‘Jonah’ : A Cinematic Novel
Green identifies Stone’s narrative gift in his ability to construct character through action, connecting this effect to the narrative devices of motion pictures. The limitations…
1 June 1965 - Wishing for Modernity: Temporality and Desire in Gould’s Book of Fish
Shipway’s article examines Flanagan’s representation of Tasmanian versions of history and modernity in Gould’s Book of Fish. As one of the recurring tropes in…
1 May 2003 - The Penguin and the Man-O’-War Hawk: Joseph Furphy’s Critical Reputation, 1903-1947
Darby examines the early reception of Such is Life to demonstrate that, contrary to previous opinions, those first readers were aware of the hidden plots…
1 October 1987 - Spatialised Time and Circular Time: A Note on Time in the Work of Gerald Murnane and Jorge-Luis Borges
The image of the journey in time characterises much of twentieth-century fiction--Joyce, Mann, Proust, Svevo and Woolf bear witness--and finds in Australian writing a fertile…
1 October 1997 - Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey
The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the…
1 October 1993 - A Tale of Two Countries: Jack Maggs and Peter Carey’s Fiction
Peter Carey has generally preferred to fictionalise Australia at a remove, to reimagine it, shape-shifted out of its present appearance by science fiction transformations, or…
1 October 1997 - David Malouf’s Child’s Play and ‘The Death of the Author’
Child's Play is entirely textually oriented, a novel which takes its own development as its subject, its own form as its entire reality. The analysis…
1 May 1988 - ‘Years Later’: Temporality and Closure in Peter Carey’s Novels
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…
1 October 1999 - Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988 - Enlarging Our Experiments with Narrative: John A. Scott’s Triology with Annotations
In the last fifteen years a remarkable number of Australian poets have attempted to write fiction. This phenomenon raises the inevitable question of what they…
1 May 1992 - Gender, Genre, and Sybylla’s Performative Identity in Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her…
1 October 1997 - ‘What Had She to Do With Angels?’ : Gender and Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Pratt examines the concept of ‘personal narrative’ in terms of the politics of gender. Mary’s presence in the text as a ‘stereotypical maiden/wife/mother’ serves to…
1 October 1993 - Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas
This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing…
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Contributors
- Mark Azzopardi
- Paolo Bartoloni
- Wendy Capper
- Robert Darby
- Martin Duwell
- Dorothy Green
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Anthony J. Hassall
- Ian Henderson
- Holger Klein
- Christer Larsson
- Catherine Cecilia Pratt
- Jesse Shipway
- Graeme Turner
- Stephen Woods