Helen Garner
Articles
- Review of Bodyjamming: Sexual Harassment, Feminism and Public Life, edited by Jenna Mead
It's now over two years since Helen Gamer's The First Stone was published, producing widespread media controversy, healthy sales, and offering an aestheticised and potent…
1 May 1998 - Review of Helen Garner, by Kerryn Goldsworthy, Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, edited by Gerry Turcotte, and Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography, by Anne Brewster
Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen Australian writers, five female and nine male, including…
1 May 1998 - The Language of Music: Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach
All Garner's novels and stories present female experience as a discourse of the possible rather than a narrative of simple conflict although this possibility always…
1 October 1990 - Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip: The Construction of an Author and Her Work
The gloves are off, it might seem, when a male critic declares that the latest prize-winning woman author 'talks dirty and passes it off as…
1 October 1992 - ‘Ordinary Readers’ and Political Uses: Re-Examining Helen Garner’s Non-Fiction Writings about Filicide
Helen Garner’s literary non-fiction book This House of Grief (2014), as well as her two essays ‘Why She Broke’ (2017) and ‘Killing Daniel’ (1993), all…
29 October 2020 - Wenz Reinvented: The Making and Remaking of a French-Australian Transnational Writer
This paper analyses the work of Paul Wenz (1869–1939). Born in Reims, France, Wenz moved to Australia in the 1890s, settling in New South Wales…
30 April 2021 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021
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