Urban life
Articles
- Urban Influence on Australian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…
1 October 1975 - The Telling of Marmel’s Story
The essay discusses Brimming Billabongs, ‘the first Aboriginal “autobiography”, albeit simulated, but also the first fictional narrative to rely upon an Aboriginal character as…
1 June 2009 - Alien Intoxications: The Aggressions of a Brisbane Opium Smoker
'In Australia opium smoking provoked a rhetorical nexus of intoxication, cultural division, and clamorous assertions of nationality. ... With this in mind, what I offer…
1 June 2012 - ‘Does all Melbourne smell like this?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne
A few years after George Augustus Sala had coined the term ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ in 1885, a play with that title was written and performed with…
1 May 2003 - Shit Creek: Suburbia, Abjection and Subjectivity in Australian ‘Grunge’ Fiction
Andrew McGahan's Praise, Edward Berridge's Lives of the Saints and Clare Mendes' Drift Street explore the psychosocial and psychosexual limitations and excesses of young…
1 November 1998 - The Suburban Problem of Evil
Our first scene is a Western Sydney suburban lounge-room seventeen years ago. It is very clean and tidy and full of shelves and little tables…
1 November 1998 - Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagon Watson
Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…
1 October 2007