Literary tradition
Articles
- Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and Robbery Under Arms
Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters…
1 October 1989 - The Traditionalism of James McAuley
"Argues that McAuley failed to practice his own poetic theory in that his traditionalism lacks ‘a living creative energy’; thus he in an ‘interesting minor…
1 October 1983 - A.D. Hope and the Poetry of Allusion
The past in A. D. Hope's poetry is very much a literary past. The poems show that Hope's relationship to the past and present is…
1 October 1979 - Sir Samuel Griffith, Dante and the Italian Presence in Nineteenth-Century Australian Literary Culture
Sir Samuel Griffith's place in Australian history rests on his public career as Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of Queensland, and after Federation as the…
1 October 1989 - Patrick White and Murray Bail: Appropriations of ‘The Prodigal Son’
Placement of authors within literary traditions and discourses is an active, continual process. Both authors and critics often rely upon their predecessors in the categorisation…
1 May 1991