Australian Literature
The Australian Stage edited by Harold Love & Reverses by Marcus Clarke, edited by Dennis Davison
by Helen Thomson •
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews
by John Hanrahan •
While the reading of a book has become a solitary matter, its interpretation remains a convivial task which must be performed anew for each new reader, new age, and new country. The business of criticism is to help us in this task, and from a multitude of judgements to further our understanding of an author’s words for our time. The critic is therefore involved not only with books, but through them with the cultural problems of his society. Critical debates thus become debates about major social issues.
... (read more)Australian Writers: An illustrated guide to their lives and work by Graeme Kinross-Smith
by Geoffrey Radcliffe •