Postmodernism
Articles
- After Libertarianism: An Interview with Michael Wilding
Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.
1 May 1998 - ‘The Great Australian Emptiness’ Revisited: Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance
If, as Dean MacCannell argues, tourism is the quest for a 'reality' and an 'authenticity' that are thought to be always 'elsewhere' (160), then it…
1 May 1991 - An Infinite Onion: Narrative Structure in Peter Carey’s Fiction
Discusses Carey's approach to writing narrative and about narrative, focusing on Harry Joy's stories in Bliss. Dovey shows how the novel foregrounds the…
1 October 1983 - Dorothy Hewett’s Faith in Doubt
Uses feminist theories and concepts of the feminine sublime to investigate Dorothy Hewett’s writing (particularly her poetry) and her development as a writer, concentrating on…
1 May 2001 - Tranter’s Plots
Tranter's work has consistently engaged problems of deixis (grammatical orientation) and interpretation which, in turn, become problems of showing and telling, of representation and narrative…
1 May 1989 - Spatialising Experience : Gail Jones’s Black Mirror and the Contending of Postmodern Space
A recurring theme in Gail Jones's fiction is the relationship between subjects and their social spaces; the possibilities and impossibilities of mapping individuals' experiences in…
1 October 2007