Literary canon
Articles
- Reading My Brilliant Career
Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…
1 October 2002 - ‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s: Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
This paper analyses a single aspect of Australian literary culture in a particular historical period, namely its interest in 'greatness' - great books and great…
1 May 1995 - Blue Corner and Red Corner, Metropolis and Province: Literature and Education in Contemporary Australia
'It is a grave mistake—politically, morally, tactically, strategically pedagogically—in any way to defend poetry by promoting its remoteness or its professional status, such as that…
1 June 2013 - Review of Australian Literary Criticism since 1901, by Peng Qinglong
Writing a history of literary criticism is undoubtedly challenging in that it requires the writer’s expertise in two aspects: how to unify both theoretical and…
29 October 2020 - Anthologies and the Amazonian Phalanx: Publication of Australian Female Poets from the 1940s
This article discusses the extent to which female poets in Australia were disadvantaged by the predominance of male anthologists from the 1940s until recently. Through…
25 May 2024