Poetics
Articles
- Veronica Brady’s Biography of Judith Wright
Literary biography has both its friends and its enemies. Readers of the genre may be fans of particular authors, or may be addicted to literary…
1 October 1999 - Counter-Poetics
‘Michel Foucault defined history as ‘the discourse of power’ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a ‘counter-history’ is ‘to show that laws deceive, that…
1 June 2011 - The Development of an Egalitarian Poetics in the Bulletin, 1880-1890
At bottom, the Bulletin was concerned with the literature (being one of the most important of many kinds of cultural manifestations) likely to be produced…
1 May 1981 - Daemonic Currents in Dorothy Porter’s Poetry
‘Although charged by the daemonic, the sacred and extreme, [Porter’s] poetics is shot through, too, with awareness of fakery and illusion. Finally, the currents of…
1 May 2010 - Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet’s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by…
1 May 1990 - The Poetemics of Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal
‘Oodgeroo…never once discribed herself as a poet. She often said, when pressed, that she was an educationalist and that her job was to educate both…
1 November 1994