Metaphors
Articles
- Ages of Reason: Ethics, Metaphor and the Work of Jennifer Maiden
In Sartre's novel, at the much quoted point at which the protagonist affirms 'I recognize no allegiance except to myself ... all I want is…
1 May 1996 - Intricate Knots and Vast Cosmologies: The Poetry of Judith Beveridge
A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…
1 May 2000 - Simple Facts of Light and Stone: The Eco-Phenomenology of Anthony Lawrence
Discusses the '"welding" of intense observation of the poetic self with the equally intense observation of the external world' that 'epitomises Lawrence's poetry', with reference…
1 October 2008 - Getting a Head: Dismembering and Remembering in Robert Drewe’s The Savage Crows
The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…
1 May 2003 - Dying of Landscape: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert
The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…
1 May 1999 - The Twyborn Affair: Beyond ‘the Human Hierarchy of Men and Women’
David Marr's monumental biography of Patrick White invites a rereading of White's novels. Marr, like any good biographer intent on revealing the life rather than…
1 May 1994 - A Dog with a Broken Back: Animals as Rhetoric and Reality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee’s fiction ‘calls into question [the] longstanding cultural assumption of human superiority [over animals]. His novels Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, in particular, foreground philosophical…
1 June 2010 - Vexilla Regis Prodeunt: Myth and Allusion in Out of Ireland
Examines the use of literary allusions by Koch, and his search for a spiritual ‘otherland’, and focuses on the dialectic between Hell and Paradise, damnation…
1 May 2001 - A. D. Hope and the Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes
Among Australian poets, few owe a greater part of their inspiration to Eros than A.D. Hope. 'Love and desire have prompted some of his best…
1 October 2000 - ‘realer than the Real’ : Francis Webb’s 'Ward Two'
'Ward Two' has long been one of Francis Webb's best known poems, if not the best known, due to the coherence lent it by the…
1 May 1979 - ‘The Folds of Unseen Linen’: The Fabric of Rosemary Dobson’s Poetry
Argues 'that a sustained reading of Dobson's work leads to the conviction that 'progress', linear change, and the sense of 'turning point' (Brady 113) -…
1 May 1995
Contributors
- Bill Ashcroft
- Marie-Louise Ayres
- Emily Bitto
- Martin Duwell
- Martin Duwell
- Roslynn D. Haynes
- Noel Henricksen
- Susan Lever
- James Ley
- Susan K. Martin
- Xavier Pons