Queensland
Articles
- ‘Oh, Vaunted Queensland!’: A Literary Interpretation, 1862-69
About the year 1862 there 'stranded somehow on the shore of Queensland' an ex-student of King's College, Aberdeen, who had been sent down six or…
1 October 1973 - Review of By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland, edited by Patrick Buckridge and Belinda McKay
Although one might wonder at the enterprise of compiling a literary history of a state, which is, after all, a political entity, one could argue…
1 November 2008 - Review of The Third Metropolis: Imagining Brisbane through Art and Literature 1940-1970, by William Hatherell
For those who hail from the rest of the Australian continent, the rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne on various fronts—culture, style, political significance and tourist…
1 November 2008 - ‘Deadly’ Work: Reading the Short Fiction of Archie Weller
When an Aboriginal writer appropriates western literary forms to tell stories of pre-invasion tribal heritage and culture, there is little objection from many black or…
1 October 1993