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The first comprehensive critical study of Keneally's work. It concentrates on his novels, but also covers plays and non-fiction, and analyses the academic reception of Keneally's work.
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Coming to Terms with Australia's Past : Thomas Keneally's Bring Larks and Heroes
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 25-29) 'Colomba talks about Australia's past in Thomas Keneally's novel Bring Larks and Heroes. Thomas Keneally's third novel, Bring Larks and Heroes, is among the most significant works of the 1960s to portray the penal society of Australia's past at "the world's worse end". Published during a time of deep social and cultural change in Australia, the book is an investigation of the mechanisms that lie at the foundation of an oppressively brutal society, in a world where the values of the "old" clash with, and are transformed by, the reality of the "new." The release of the novel marked a crucial moment in the life of its author by establishing him as a professional writer.' (Editor's abstract) -
Untitled
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 169-170)
— Review of Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism -
An Absence of Partisanship
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)
— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism -
Warm Comfort Zone
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 144 1996; (p. 83-86)
— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 1995 single work criticism ; Judith Wright 1995 single work criticism -
Bold Keneally v Leprechaun Tom
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 August 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism
-
An Absence of Partisanship
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)
— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism -
Warm Comfort Zone
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 144 1996; (p. 83-86)
— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 1995 single work criticism ; Judith Wright 1995 single work criticism -
Catching Keneally
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 173 1995; (p. 25-26)
— Review of Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism -
Untitled
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 169-170)
— Review of Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism -
Bold Keneally v Leprechaun Tom
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 August 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism -
Thomas Keneally: My Part in his Downfall
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 39 no. 10 1995; (p. 23-26) -
Coming to Terms with Australia's Past : Thomas Keneally's Bring Larks and Heroes
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 25-29) 'Colomba talks about Australia's past in Thomas Keneally's novel Bring Larks and Heroes. Thomas Keneally's third novel, Bring Larks and Heroes, is among the most significant works of the 1960s to portray the penal society of Australia's past at "the world's worse end". Published during a time of deep social and cultural change in Australia, the book is an investigation of the mechanisms that lie at the foundation of an oppressively brutal society, in a world where the values of the "old" clash with, and are transformed by, the reality of the "new." The release of the novel marked a crucial moment in the life of its author by establishing him as a professional writer.' (Editor's abstract)
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Subjects:
- Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel
- Passenger 1979 single work novel
- Gossip from the Forest 1975 single work novel
- Act of Grace 1988 single work novel
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1972 single work novel
- The Playmaker 1987 single work novel
- A Victim of the Aurora 1977 single work novel
- The Survivor 1969 single work novel
- Flying Hero Class 1991 single work novel
- Chief of Staff 1991 single work novel
- Woman of the Inner Sea 1992 single work novel
- Schindler's Ark 1982 single work novel
- Towards Asmara 1989 single work novel
- Now and in Time to Be : Ireland and the Irish 1992 single work prose biography
- Three Cheers for the Paraclete 1968 single work novel
- Season in Purgatory 1976 single work novel
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