Satire
Articles
- Hal Porter’s Comic Mode
Hal Porter's early short stories may be seen as constant experiments designed to solve the problems associated with maintaining effective distance from his material and…
1 October 1970 - Barry Oakley and the Satiric Mode
Barry Oakley's name has become associated in Melbourne during the late '60's and early 70's with the new playwrights, David Williamson, John Romeril, Jack Hibberd…
1 May 1975 - Some Recent Australian Fictions in the Age of Tourism: Murray Bail, Inez Baranay, Gerard Lee
Exile, expatriation, migration, travel: a rhetoric of restlessness has underpinned Australia's chimerical search for national selfhood. Torn between the need for definition and the desire…
1 October 1993 - Society and Nature in Such is Life
Kiernan questions whether Such is Life reflects the “spirit of the nineties” and whether the ideas that Tom Collins expresses in his digressions are simply…
1 December 1963 - A Lost Satire on the 1890s Bulletin Writers and Bohemians
In January and February 1983, while researching David McKee Wright's poetry and critical writings, I discovered among his papers (donated by his daughter April Hersey)…
1 October 1986