Search for self identity
Articles
- Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
Some of the subtlety of Les A. Murray's poetry is suggested by the way it both invites critical commentary on seemingly straightforward themes and values…
1 May 1988 - The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography: Ruby Langford’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town
A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate…
1 May 1993 - Tales of Old Travel: Predecessors of David Malouf’s The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Malouf's choice of subject matter is not arbitrary. His story is one version of an archetypal Romantic story, whose particulars change according to the teller…
1 October 1997 - ‘Composing the Self’: Metaphors of Creativity in Henry Handel Richardson’s Myself When Young
‘This essay interrogates Richardson’s representation of her choice of a literary over a musical career, arguing that this choice was a matter not only of…
1 October 2005 - Unbecoming Australians : Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to…
1 October 2007 - Searchlights and the Search for History in Christina Stead’s ‘Seven Poor Men of Sydney’
Drawing on a significant motif from the novel itself, Bindella argues that the metaphor of the web helps clarify the apparent 'shapelessness' of Stead's Seven…
1 June 1991