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1 Postcard : A Wary Embrace Roland Boer , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , October/November no. 138 2015; (p. 48-50)
1 In Pursuit of Bigfoot Roland Boer , 2015 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , June-July no. 136 2015; (p. 39-40)
1 Riding the River Spree Roland Boer , 2013 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , August - September no. 125 2013; (p. 42-44)
1 Winter on the Trans-Siberian Roland Boer , 2012 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December no. 121 2012; (p. 56-59)
1 y separately published work icon Nick Cave : a Study of Love, Death, and Apocalypse Roland Boer , Sheffield : Equinox , 2012 Z1900303 2012 single work criticism
1 Sacred Landscapes Roland Boer , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , September vol. 18 no. 2 2012;
— Review of Luminous Moments : The Contemporary Sacred Lyn McCredden , 2010 single work criticism
1 Sailors, Ships and Profits Roland Boer , 2012 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , April-May no. 117 2012; (p. 40-43)
1 The Total Depravity of Nick Cave’s Literary World Roland Boer , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Theology , September vol. 25 no. 3 2011; (p. 312-328) 'The article argues that Nick Cave's literary (as opposed to his musical) world is characterised by the Calvinist doctrine of total depravity. In both outlining this world and seeking the moment of redemption, I simultaneously construct the framework of that world—in terms of the deranged house of incest, substance abuse, the spread of depravity to nature itself and the way the Bible is woven into that world—and fill in its content, with a specific focus on his novels. As that world gains some body, its dialectical relation to redemption begins to emerge, although with a problematic twist (Author's abstract).
1 Bodies, Language and People in the Ukraine Roland Boer , 2011 single work essay travel
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , April - May no. 111 2011; (p. 43-46)
1 God, Pain and Love in the Music of Nick Cave Roland Boer , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture , Fall vol. 22 no. 3 2010; 'Nick Cave has asserted that all his songs are love songs. Rather than follow his own guidelines for interpreting his work in terms of biblical influences from the Song of Solomon and the Psalms, I suggest a fourfold schema. It operates in terms of the presence and absence of both God and pain. There are very few of the secular soppy songs (no pain, no God) that are standard fare for much pop music and the ones Cave does offer are not very good. A few more appear in the painlessly divine songs (no pain, with God), which are the songs that opened Cave’s work out to wider audiences. However, the vast majority are either painfully secular songs (with pain, no God) or the brutally divine ones (both pain and God are present). I explore these in more detail, since here we find complex overlaps between God, pain and women' (Author's abstract).
1 Love, Pain and Redemption in the Music of Nick Cave Roland Boer , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Aesthetics , December vol. 19 no. 2 2009; (p. 159-168)
1 Rapturama Roland Boer , Matthew Nikolai Chrulew , 2007 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: The Workers' Paradise 2007; (p. 137-161)
1 Under the Influence? The Bible, Culture and Nick Cave Roland Boer , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture , Spring vol. 12 no. 2006;

Debates on the relation between culture and the Bible are locked into two restrictive models: either the Bible is a source for subsequent appropriations, or it is the goal that one must attain through the thicket of those appropriations. In order to trouble this two-way street, I explore the words and music of Nick Cave, focusing on the way he controls interpretation of his work and where that control breaks down. At this moment Cave provides an unwitting insight into another way to view the relation of the Bible and culture, one that operates in terms of "strategies of containment"' (Author's abstract)
1 Explorer Hermeneutics, or Fat Damper and Sweetened Tea Roland Boer , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Semeia , vol. 88 no. 2001; (p. 71-95) Examines the biblical constructions of Australia in explorer journals.
1 Green Ants and Gibeonites : B. Wongar, Joshua 9 and Some Problems of Postcolonialism Roland Boer , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Semeia , vol. 75 no. 1996; (p. 129-152)
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