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1 The Presence of Absence in The Sitters Ronald A. Sharp , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 78-88) 'In the second paragraph of Alex Miller's The Sitters (1995) the narrator informs us that his memory of Jessica Keal allows him 'to approach the last enigma of my life - my family and my childhood. That cold legacy of silence and absence' (2). Bernadette Brennan's fine essay on The Sitters, in the context of Maurice Blanchot's meditations on death, notes that the narrator never explains 'why his experience with Jessica has given him the energy to begin painting...his childhood' (104). That it does so is indisputable, and Peter Pierce points us in the right direction, in his article on 'The Solitariness of Alex Miller', when he observes that Jessica functions as 'a Wordsworthian trigger to recover past 'spots of time'' (305). The connection between the frame of the entire narrative - and I use the word 'frame' not only to indicate a narrative frame but also in the sense of a picture frame, since this is a novel that foregrounds the connections between literary and visual art, between a novelist creating a character and a painter creating a portrait.' (Author's introduction 78)
1 2 Mateship, Friendship and National Identity Ronald A. Sharp , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 48-54)
1 1 More Than Just Mates Ronald A. Sharp , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 18-20)

'Arthur Miller's novels exhibit a nuanced and subtle understanding of the forces, from the erotic to the platonic, that drive humans to connect with each other and in the process confront our shared mortality.' (Editor's abstract)

In this article, Ronald A. Sharp focuses 'on explaining and illuminating [Landscape of Farewell's] profound view of friendship and on celebrating the radiant artistic achievement of representing and embodying that vision in fiction.'

1 Radiant Twilight Ronald A. Sharp , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 3 no. 11 2008; (p. 24)
— Review of Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2008 selected work poetry
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