Natural environment - Literary portrayal

Horner examines the use of the Australian setting as a romantic device to demonstrate the artisic quality of the novel. Kingsley’s use of the Australian…

Vance Palmer's novels and short stories are not confined to any one area or social group. His settings range from outback cattle stations to middle-class…

The essay discusses Brimming Billabongs, ‘the first Aboriginal “autobiography”, albeit simulated, but also the first fictional narrative to rely upon an Aboriginal character as…

The rise of new ecological and environmental concerns demands a holistic engagement with knowledge, simultaneous understanding of science and politics and perhaps, above all, a…

Was it just a matter of time? Do all political criticisms eventually meet? These musings are prompted by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin's new book…

There are a number of reasons why this is an important collection of essays. First, it challenges the hegemonic status of the United States as…

A recent special feature in The Australian asked a range of people what the land meant to them. Keith Williams, notorious most recently for his…

In this lengthy and ambitious work, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth employs an ‘event/witness’ model to relate the history of the wheatbelt, a portion of Western Australia consisting…

Embracing the environmental, eco-materialist and planetary turn in the humanities, prompted by the Anthropocene, this paper offers a reading of Voss as an environmental and…

What might thinking with specific waters, and particular watery forms, bring to our understandings of how literature comes to mean? Taking cues from recent work…