Australian Literary Studies
A Sense for Humanity: The ethical thought of Raimond Gaita edited by Craig Taylor with Melinda Graeffe
Tim Winton: Critical Essays edited by Lyn McCredden and Nathanael O’Reilly
Travelling Without Gods edited by Cassandra Atherton & My Feet Are Hungry by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 28, no. 1-2 edited by Leigh Dale and Tanya Dalziell
The novel begins with the burnished quality of something handed down through generations, its opening lines like the first breath of a myth. Seductive in tone and concision, charged with an aura of enchantment, the early paragraphs of George Johnston’s My Brother Jack (1964) do more than merely lure the reader into the narrative. In these sentences, Johnston reveals the conviction and control of a master storyteller who, at the outset, establishes his ambition and literary lineage:
... (read more)Antipodean America: Australasia and the constitution of U.S. Literature by Paul Giles
Transnational Literature: Vol. 6, No. 2 by Gillian Dooley
Dare Me!: The life and work of Gerald Glaskin by John Burbidge
It is a brilliant summer day in July 1935. The scene is a house called Green Ridges, near Hastings, Sussex. Two women, seated but not relaxed, face each other across a formal drawing room. This is the first time they have met. Nettie Palmer, Australian writer and journalist, has come to stay overnight with the novelist Henry Handel Richardson.
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