David Carter

The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an…

Considers the 'textual and institutional gestures' set in train by John O'Grady's Nino Culotta hoax. 'The point of this essay is neither to condemn the…

Reviewing The Oxford Literary History of Australia is a tricky, discomfiting affair. What do we expect from such histories? Should we expect the latest theoretical…

Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…

Editor’s note: These three articles “are meant to stimulate further debate on the current state and future direction of studies in Australian literature.”

It is a gift to be invited to review these two books together not just because they are substantial original works of literary analysis and…

Discusses a collection of little magazines published in the interwar period that 'show a sudden--if delayed--moment of accession to contemporary debates about modernity and the…

A primary effect of reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow through its Utopian frame is to foreground questions of genre, questions which have been only…

Graeme Turner's National Fictions is written both against and adjacent to literary criticism. Its object is culture, not literature, ideology not sensibility. It is the…

A number of recent books have testified to the significant role played in Australia's cultural history by the Communist Party of Australia (C.P.A.). However, despite…