American (USA) literature & writers
Articles
- Who Is Kevin, and Why Do We Need to Talk About Him? Lionel Shriver, Kevin, and the Problem of Representation
'Eva, Franklin and Kevin exemplify not just the absence at the heart of discourses of 'the family' , but the emptiness of the rhetoric of…
1 November 2009 - The Influence of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven on Patrick White
Beston points out literary affinities between White and Steinbeck, with particular reference to thematic similarities between Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven and White's first novel…
1 May 1974 - Bruce Dawe and the Americans
Reading Bruce Dawe's uncollected juvenilia written during the mid-1940s (and even the few more conservative poems published in the Jindyworobak anthologies under his pen-name, 'Llewelyn…
1 October 1979 - Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla: The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever
This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to…
1 October 2006 - Rufus Dawes, Novelist
Discusses an American novel, Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America, set during the Boston uprising of 1689. Written by Rufus Dawes, Innes suggests…
1 May 1988 - American Dreaming : The Fictions of Peter Carey
Examines the relationship between Carey’s fiction and international forms, particularly American forms and meanings.
1 October 1986 - Ezra Pound, Frederic Manning and James Griffyth Fairfax
In the recent 'Ezra Pound in Melbourne' special issue of Helix (Melbourne, Nos 13/14 1983) Jonathan Marwil's article on the friendship of Pound and Manning…
1 May 1984 - Review of Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American and Australian Writers by Joseph Jones and Contemporary American and Australian Poetry, edited by Thomas Shapcott
Not long after the first settlement here, comparisons with American life and letters began to be drawn, with America offering the major alternative to England…
1 May 1977 - Shopping at Last!: History, Fiction and the Anti-Suburban Tradition
Discusses 'sympathetic' representations of suburbia in Australian non-fiction and American fiction, arguing that these works offer guides for augmenting the anti-suburban tradition in Australia, which…
1 November 1998 - The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality
Greek myth relates how Pegasus, immediately after its birth, flew to Mount Helicon, where the stamping of its hoofs caused the Hippocrene Spring, the source…
1 June 1991 - Irish-Australian Literature: Ghosts, Genealogy, Tradition
Opening with Christos Tsiolkas’s critique of multiculturalism, this essay considers the theory and practice of Irish-Australian literature in relation to questions of ethnicity and transnationalism…
30 September 2021 - Displaced Homelands in Gerald Murnane’s Inland
Gerald Murnane is the pre-eminent chronicler of Irish-Australian Catholic male youth: its spiritual curiosity, onanistic fantasies and inevitable guilt, and the irresistible attraction to the…
30 September 2021
Contributors
- Lars Andersson
- John Beston
- Mark Byron
- Paul Giles
- Laurie Hergenhan
- C. L. Innes
- Brian Kiernan
- Garry Kinnane
- Mark Macleod
- Horst Priessnitz
- Graeme Turner
- Jen Webb