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- Keep Close to the Earth! : The Schism between the Worker and Nature in Katharine Susannah Prichard's Novels, single work criticism
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A Green Flaw in the Crystal Glass : Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot,
single work
criticism
'The argument of this paper is that Mary Hare, one of the four principal characters in a slightly later novel by White, Riders in the Chariot, is the most pronounced of White's ecological avatars. She is a green interloper in the "glass house" (RC35) of Xanadu, an imposing estate on the outskirts of Sydney, built by Mary's father Norbert. Norbert's metaphysical pretensions, like the metaphysical pursuits of Voss, are deeply anthropocentric and blind him to the ecogenic subject of the ecogenic environment around him. He exploits it or disregards it in his design of Xanadu. The ecocritical content of Riders in the Chariot, and of White's writing as a whole, hardly has been spoken to by scholars. I argue this is central to any discussion of White and, further, that this content is central to White's metaphysical themes.'
Source: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique, no.12 November 2006 Sighted: 12/07/2007
- Longing to Belong : Judith Wright's Poetics of Place, single work criticism
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Salt-Lakes and Swamps : Michael Meehan's Australian Environments,
single work
criticism
'Although The Salt of Broken Tears and Stormy Weather are set in the Mallee, one depicts a world of heat, dust and salt, whereas the other is an account of one day in the small town of Towaninnie on which the rain is unceasing. A major symbol of the first novel is the salt-lake, and of the second, the fecund greenness of the rabbiter's swamp. This paper will examine the way these two disparate environments affect the novels' characters and influence the narrative, and what both novels suggest about Australians' relationship with their environment.'
Source: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique, no.12 November 2006 Sighted: 12/07/2007 -
To Reinvent the World? The Hope of Being True to the Earth,
single work
criticism
Veronica Brady explores the work of Judith Wright and how she used language as a way of looking at the world in the context of being 'true to the earth'.Note: Although sharing titles and opening paragraphs, this is a different version of the essay which appears in Le Simplegadi.
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Degradation of Land and the Position of Poetry,
single work
criticism
The author questions the connection between Australian poetry and ecological issues and if there is a role for this poetry in the face of the new millennium's pressures of urbanism, technoloy, poetry, capitalism and population growth.
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The Artistic and the Literary Imagination in Australia and Beyond: Finding Places of the Heart among the Gum Trees,
single work
criticism
'The author considers the reasons for the early dominance of the painting tradition and the later blossoming of both visual and literary art forms in the past half-century.'
Source: Colloquy Text Theory Critique no 12 (2006)
