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- Slessor’s ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’
A close reading of Slessor’s sequence, focussing on the nature of the visions and the visionaries; the use Slessor makes of his sources; and questions…
1 May 1969 - The World Outside Time : Slessor’s Five Bells
'Five Bells' is admired for its imagery, emotional intensity, and the technical proficiency of its verse. The ideas expressed in it embarrass some critics and…
1 October 1971 - Anachronism, Ekphrasis and the ‘Shape of Time’ in The Great Fire
Readers of Shirley Hazzard's fiction have long been familiar with the ways her densely allusive prose embeds her stories and her characters in European art…
1 October 2008 - Spatialised Time and Circular Time: A Note on Time in the Work of Gerald Murnane and Jorge-Luis Borges
The image of the journey in time characterises much of twentieth-century fiction--Joyce, Mann, Proust, Svevo and Woolf bear witness--and finds in Australian writing a fertile…
1 October 1997