Western Australia
Articles
- Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988 - Rescuing Reading: Strategies for Arresting the Decline of Reading in Western Australian Newspapers between the Wars
The purpose of this essay is to describe and interpret a cluster of three readerly 'entertainments' conducted in two Perth newspapers, the Western Mail and…
1 October 2014 - Review of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt, by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
In this lengthy and ambitious work, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth employs an ‘event/witness’ model to relate the history of the wheatbelt, a portion of Western Australia consisting…
5 July 2019