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- A Reconsideration of Christina Stead at Work: Fact into Fiction
Everyone knows that novelists, like painters, draw from life. What we need to understand is more about the ways particular novelists transform real people into…
1 May 1997 - The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord
'Why do people do this sort of thing?' It is a child's question, from a boy called Derek, who is one of a group kidnapped…
1 October 1999 - Colonial Gothic: Morbid Anatomy, Commodification and Critique in Marcus Clarke’s The Mystery of Major Molineux
The dynamics of what might be called colonial Gothic, by which I mean the Gothicizing of the settler-colony as a site of repression, also anticipate…
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