Use of language

This paper examines Henry Kingsley's critical reception and his uncertain position in nineteenth century literary history. Wellings examines elements of Ravenshoe otherwise not accounted for…

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…

A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…

Discusses Murray's collection of poems, The People's Otherworld (1984) and collection fo essays, Persistence in Folly (1984), arguing that Murray's work explores the richness of…

Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the ‘well-made novel’. Argues that ‘a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us…

Discusses Malouf’s ‘elusive’ fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.

In The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter records his own experience as infant, child and adolescent, one of six children of typically…

Winton discusses his career, literary influences, and approach to form and style.

A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz. These contradictions are bred partly by the literary theory which has so insistently…

This article can only be part of a comprehensive study of the reception of Patrick White. It comprises the range of reception indicated by a…

Argues that Facey’s autobiography shows ‘just how persuasive the art of understatement is … in the writing of this ordinary Australian, addressing the larger issues…

Discusses Shapcott's poetry as 'intimations', 'especially concerned with intimating (which can be a way of avoiding closeness), intimacy and hearing intimations (often, of course, of…

Begins with the provocation that Mateer's poetry can be fruitfully read through his poem 'Talking with Yagan's head'. 'Yagan's head ... is not simply an…

Chris Wallace-Crabbe was interviewed by David McCooey in Melbourne in January and February, 1996.

The most noticeable thing about Foulcher's work is that it is decisively social. His poems are full of people—not shadowy figures meant to represent…

Tranter's work has consistently engaged problems of deixis (grammatical orientation) and interpretation which, in turn, become problems of showing and telling, of representation and narrative…

‘Imaginal’ reading of Malouf’s nove An Imaginary Life.

The relatively early novel A Kindness Cup, which focuses on the massacre of a group of Aborigines and the efforts made to forget and…

J.S. Harry has long been considered a curious and individual voice in Australian verse. Her diverse experimental poetry consistently examines the behaviour and fluidity of…

On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…