Quest motif
Articles
- ‘Deep Ancestral Voices’: Inner and Outer Narrative in Christopher J. Koch’s Highways to a War
Argues that in Koch's novel, 'two strands are continually in process: the inner and outer life, the world of values and the quotidian, the mythic…
1 May 1997 - Death and Home-Work: The Origins of Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Mead considers the role of death in the narrative and argues that it is a powerful cultural symbol because of its thematic connections with the…
1 October 1995 - ‘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 - Unbecoming Australians : Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to…
1 October 2007