Both these collections of essays on Australian poetry are designed for the student market and will no doubt be duly listed as recommended reading by…
These new studies of Patrick White illustrate remarkably well the respective virtues of two contrasting critical approaches to literature. Professor Walsh, a past master of…
Colmer reviews the updated edition of The Literature of Australia, and Björkstén's General Introduction to Patrick White, published in Sweden after White's 1973 Nobel…
There is a growing need both here and overseas for scholarly introductory studies-of Australian authors designed for the general reader and tertiary student. The series…
The simultaneous appearance of these two books indicates the growing interest in Australian literary-cultural studies. Neither, unfortunately, has any strong organizing framework of informing theory…
That Professor Inglis Moore is an amateur is clear from his preface and the chapter called 'The Social Element in Literature'. The opening sentence of…
In 1965, Southerly issued a special Patrick White number. This is now out of print. To satisfy continued requests, Professor G. A. Wilkes has decided…
Academics in America and Great Britain have found it profitable to clap miscellaneous pieces on major poets between paper covers and offer the results to…
A number of histories of Australian literature have already appeared. The products of single or joint authorship, they have had the advantage of unity of…