George Johnston
Articles
- Voyage and Kaleidoscope in George Johnston’s Trilogy
The central concern of George Johnston's trilogy, My Brother Jack Clean Straw for Nothing, and A Cartload of Clay, may be summed…
1 October 1973 - War in Post-1960s Fiction: Johnston, Stow, McDonald, Malouf and Les Murray
Discusses a number of war novels which, rather than focussing on military conflicts, centre on the ways in which war has shaped Australian experience. Argues…
1 October 1985 - The Evolution of George Johnston’s David Meredith
IT has been overlooked that George Johnston's character, David Meredith did not spring fully-formed from the pages of My Brother Jack to be developed in …
1 October 1983 - The Reconstruction of Self: Background and Design in George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy
Using biographical criticism as its methodological starting point, Kinnane’s article discusses Johnston’s way of creating fiction out of personal experience, highlights where he departs from…
1 October 1984 - Three-Dimensionality and My Brother Jack
It is no surprise that George Johnston's prize-winning novel, My Brother Jack (1964), has often been seen as a reflection upon the self or a…
1 May 1997 - Biography and Fiction : George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane’s Biography
Compares Johnston's presentation of the circumstances of his life in the Meredith Trilogy with Kinnane's biography of Johnston.
1 May 1988 - Review of Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift, by Max Brown
Charmian Clift, novelist and essayist, once scrawled on the back of a manuscript, 'She also has a life in the vertical position.' Given what we…
1 October 2005 - Review of Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964, by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
I was one of the lucky people who participated in a conference on Hydra organised by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell at the Hotel Bratsera…
3 December 2018
Contributors
- Lee Brotherson
- Susan Carson
- A. E. Goodwin
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Greer Johnson
- Garry Kinnane
- Susan Lever
- F. H. Mares
- Chris Tiffin