Perceptions of nature
Articles
- Voss and His Communications: A Structural Contrast
In bringing Sydney and the Bush to function in a set of relations which are symbolic, [Patrick White's Voss] demonstrates that in place of…
1 October 1982 - Old Orders, New Lands: The Earth Spirit in Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock gives voice to a powerful theme which George Steiner has claimed is characteristic of Russian and American fiction—that is…
1 May 1978 - ‘Contour-Line by Contour’: Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray
Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…
1 May 1994 - Still Life: Art and Nature in Vivian Smith’s Poetry
Vivian Smith's poetry occupies an ambiguous position in Australian literature: it is highly regarded, but intermittently discussed. Perhaps some critics continue to find Smith's formalism…
1 October 1995