Aesthetics
Articles
- Delight and Revolution: Literary Studies, Aesthetics and Ideology
This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the…
1 June 2013 - Norman Lindsay’s ‘Creative Effort’: Manifesto for an Urban Intelligentsia
Discusses Lindsay’s aesthetic theories, mainly in his crucial work Creative Effort, and suggests why these ideas were influential on a long list of other…
1 May 1973 - Textual Phantasmagoria: Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny
McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination—the intersection of affect and aesthetics—in the writing of Marcus Clarke.
1 October 2003 - Decomposing Suburbia: Patrick White’s Perversity
While Patrick White's writing is often vehemently anti-suburban, it is seldom interested in simplistic notions of physical escape or flight. On the contrary, White's resistance…
1 November 1998 - ‘Will This be Your Poem, or Mine?’: The Give and Take of Story
Discusses the issue of cultural appropriation in Australian literature.
1 October 2007 - Hal Porter, The Tower and the Quintessence of Porterism
Argues that understanding Porter's plays is key to understanding his work as a whole. Focusing on The Tower (1963), Capone traces Porter's debt to a…
1 June 1991