Reality
Articles
- Xavier Herbert: Capricornia
Despite its having the pioneering life as its subject and something like the family saga for its structure, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (1938) has little in…
1 October 1970 - Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson's title is, at first sight, uninviting. Even the most ardent Tennyson reader must have secretly felt that Sir Lancelot could have found something…
1 May 1986 - Harry Joy’s Children: The Art of Story Telling in Peter Carey’s Bliss
Peter Carey began his literary career as a short story writer, and his first novel Bliss (1981) is certainly more of a continuation with than…
1 May 1994 - Ways of Seeing : Henry Lawson’s ‘Going Blind’
Kiernan argues that “Going Blind” dramatizes the relationship between imagination and reality. Homesickness and nostalgia cloud the main character’s memory of the bush, but Kiernan…
1 May 1980 - ‘The Loaded Dog’: A Celebration
Argues that discussion of the 'meaning, artistry and cultural significance [of 'The Loaded Dog'] can help us to appreciate the significance of Lawson's comic celebration…
1 October 1983 - Last Flight to Byzantium: Memoirs of Many in One
The nature of art and reality and their relation to each other has always been a major preoccupation of artists and acquired a new intensity…
1 June 1991