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Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2014
2016
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— Appears in: S F Commentary , April no. 91 2016; (p. 7-9) -
A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally
2015
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criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27) Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational. -
Back to Whitton Week : Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
2015
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 May vol. 30 no. 1 2015;'So at fifty years, what can we say? An easy conclusion would be that Keneally is best understood (as he himself has suggested from time to time) as a good craftsman of readable stories that raise serious issues, a writer better suited to the literary mass-market found in north America than to the more anxious and divided cultural space of literary Australia. But that fails at some point to do justice to the author’s capacity to write an experimental, challenging, literary work one year and a formula entertainment the next. In a real sense, Keneally the novelist is that variety, that impulsive flair, that unusual mix of person and persona, author and work that refuses ready categorisation, whether by scholars or bookshop salespoints. My conclusion is that it is our entrenched understanding of a literary career as much as any particular schools of literary value (modernism, realism, postmodernism, and so forth) that generates critical oscillations and uncertainties around Keneally’s writing, and precisely because this idea itself is now under reconstruction in ways Bourdieu could not have imagined, we will have to wait for a while to find a fully satisfying model by which to understand his complete works. In the meantime, revisiting A Place at Whitton offers us a fair guide.'
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A Pair of Ragged Claws
2014
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 June 2014; (p. 17) -
Another Chapter : Keneally Takes Bow after 50 Years Writing
Fifty Years a Writer, Keneally Takes a Bow
2014
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 June 2014; (p. 20) The Age , 13 June 2014; (p. 20)
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Recent Novels
1965
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— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 31 1965; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Distant Land 1964 single work novel ; The Place at Whitton 1964 single work novel ; The Year of the Angry Rabbit 1964 single work novel ; The Man in the Jungle 1964 single work novel -
Black Magic
1964
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 November vol. 86 no. 4423 1964; (p. 54-55)
— Review of The Place at Whitton 1964 single work novel -
Untitled
1964
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review
— Appears in: Nation , 19 September 1964; (p. 22-23)
— Review of The Place at Whitton 1964 single work novel -
The Arrival of Thomas Keneally
1964
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July vol. 3 no. 9 1964; (p. 168)
— Review of The Place at Whitton 1964 single work novel -
Untitled
1965
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 January 1965; (p. 13)
— Review of The Place at Whitton 1964 single work novel -
First Voice
2006
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— Appears in: The Age , 13 May 2006; (p. 27) 'Tom Keneally looks back at the writing of his first published book.' -
On Tom Keneally's Catholic Novels
1994
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— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 38 no. 4 1994; (p. 66-68) -
Conscience and Corruption : Thomas Keneally's Three Novels
1968
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criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 27 no. 1 1968; (p. 33-41) Australian Postwar Novelists : Selected Critical Essays 1975; (p. 58-67) -
Christmas Presents for Some Well-Known Australian Authors
1986
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— Appears in: The Australian Literary Magazine , 20-21 December 1986; (p. 6) -
Goodbye to All That
1995
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biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 December-2 January vol. 116 no. 6002 1995-1996; (p. 44-46)