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Patrick White, Saul Bellow and the Problem of Literary Value,
single work
criticism
(p. 1-17)
‘Patrick White’s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements. In this essay, I want to take a step towards strengthening our assessment of it through an analysis that I hope may also illuminate possibilities for literary judgement more widely. I will limit myself to a single novel, The Solid Mandala (1968), and to using a received if somewhat old-fashioned critical technique – comparison. In the spirit of literary criticism as it was developed by T.S.Eliot, F.R. Leavis and the New Critics in the first half of the twentieth century, I will place passages from The Solid Mandala alongside passages from Saul Bellow’s Mr Sammler’s Planet.’ (Author’s abstract)
- Salt Scars : John Kinsella's Wheatbelt, single work criticism (p. 18-31)
- Bodies that Speak : Mediating Female Embodiment in Tim Winton's Fiction, single work criticism (p. 32-50)
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Australian Gothic : Theatre and the Northern Turn,
single work
criticism
(p. 51-67)'This essay traces the recent scholarship on the prominence of a Gothic sensibility in Australian literary and cinema cultures, and argues that theatre has somehow been left out of this discussion of the genre...'(From author's introduction)
- On the Genealogy of Democracy : Reading Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, single work criticism (p. 68-80)
- Alien Intoxications : The Aggressions of a Brisbane Opium Smoker, single work criticism (p. 81-96)
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[Review] The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s,
single work
review
— Review of The Empire Actors : Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s-1920s 2009 single work criticism ; (p. 97-99) -
Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of The Censor's Library 2012 single work criticism ; (p. 99-102) -
Is Australia (still) Postcolonial (yet),
single work
review
— Review of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010 anthology criticism ; (p. 102-106) -
Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of The Sons of Clovis : Ern Malley, Adore Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry 2011 single work criticism ; (p. 106-108)
