Australian myths

The Battlers, generally regarded as Kylie Tennant's most successful and probably most characteristic novel, cannot be properly understood without reference to what may conveniently…

How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…

Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…

Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…

Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…

In this decade Barry Oakley, Jack Hibberd, Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis among Australian playwrights have sought to revalue Australian legends from a radical perspective…

David Malouf responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…

Considers Webb's adaptation of Eyre's 'realization of his complete isolation' during his ill-fated exploratory journey of 1841, with particular emphasis on the poem's engagement with…

Considers critical explorations of the Australian identity by Richard White, Ross Gibson, Robert Dixon and G.A. Wilkes as the 'second generation of the consideration of…

Examines the mode of characterisation prevalent in Australian fiction, a mode which presents character as “the product of social, extrinsic determinants rather than as the…

The essay examines the literary consequences of an Australian need for an enemy in the nation-building and myth-making process, and traces how perceptions of the…

Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.