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1 Metaphysician: Trying to Read Peter Goldsworthy's Prescription Noel Henricksen , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 257-273) 'As a medical practitioner, Peter Goldsworthy has been confronted, all too frequently, with human suffering, morbidity and mortality: he wrestles with their existential meaning in his poetry, essays and stories. Death, in Goldsworthy's works, is ubiquitous: it becomes an engine for tension between belief and scepticism, for contention between the legacy of his childhood Methodism and his professional grounding in scientific method. Goldsworthy describes incidents and presents arguments which explore the feasibility that we are not ephemeral but potentially eternal: séances and hoped-for hauntings; near-death experiences ... explained physiologically; cloned Tasmanian tigers, and a doctor's self-insemination with the DNA of Jesus; God-centred science fiction, and a convincing postulate for resurrection expressed in the language of mathematics and quantum mechanics. Detached and irreverent, Goldsworthy dissects and analyses, but avoids circumscription or dogmatism. He desires, at best, some proof that there is a dimension beyond the physical; he feels some sadness that a scientific mind is deprived of a certainty of the metaphysical; and he expresses hope that "perhaps, just perhaps ..."' (Author's abstract).
1 'Not, Perhaps, Quite the Experience St Anthony Might Have Hoped for Me, but Illuminating Nonetheless' : Allusion in Robert Dessaix's 'Night Letters' Noel Henricksen , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 3 2007; (p. 191-205)
1 'Hopelessly Adrift on Dreams of Homer' : Robert Dessaix's Corfu Noel Henricksen , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 42 no. 2 2007; (p. 37-46) 'In Corfu, Robert Dessaix establishes a dialectic between myth and reality, the heroic and the ordinary, through the apt use of allusion: his novel is richly tinctured with Homer and Chekhov, Sappho and C.P. Cavafy' (37). Henrickson in this essay draws out and comments on the multiple layers of allusion through which Dessaix's novel works.
1 7 y separately published work icon Island and Otherland : Christopher Koch and His Books Noel Henricksen , Burwood : Educare , 2003 Z1062882 2003 single work criticism
1 Vexilla Regis Prodeunt : Myth and Allusion in Out of Ireland Noel Henricksen , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 33-48) Examines the use of literary allusions by Koch, and his search for a spiritual 'otherland', and focuses on the dialectic between Hell and Paradise, damnation and salvation in the novel.
1 On the Tides of History : Christopher Koch's Diptych Noel Henricksen , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 53-58)
1 Christopher Koch's Otherland Noel Henricksen , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 62-65)
1 y separately published work icon Brothers Bound by the Mystery of Earth-kinship : The Nationalism of Xavier Herbert Noel Henricksen , St Lucia : 1988 Z990588 1988 single work thesis
1 Australia Day, 1985 i "Not one century since, birdsong alone", Noel Henricksen , 1985 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue : Hiroshima 40th Anniversary Edition 1985; (p. 44 - 45)
1 Untitled i "Felucca sails in white and breathless flight", Noel Henricksen , 1985 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue : Hiroshima 40th Anniversary Edition 1985; (p. 44)
1 Untitled i "Roaring lustily, laughing wantonly,", Noel Henricksen , 1983 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue : John Blight 70th Birthday Edition , October 1983; (p. 60)
1 Pokkrovskoe April, 1918. i "We changed horses outside your house, Grigory", Noel Henricksen , 1981 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue , September 1981; (p. 9)
1 Sinai i "The Synod sat on Sinai.", Noel Henricksen , 1981 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue , September 1981; (p. 8 - 9)
1 Untitled i "Glistening red ringworm on a summer night", Noel Henricksen , 1980 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue 1980; (p. 28)
1 St Lucia, June i "The Whitsun poinsettias", Noel Henricksen , 1980 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Border Issue 1980; (p. 28)
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