1st Edition

The Novels of Alex Miller An introduction

Edited By Robert Dixon Copyright 2012
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writing is his way of 'locating connections' and his work is known for its deeply empathic engagement with relationships and cultures. This collection explores his early and later... Read more
1 Disestablished Worlds: The Novels of Alex Miller - Robert Dixon

2 The Mask of Fiction: A Memoir - Alex Miller

3 Alex Miller and Leo Tolstoy: Australian Storytelling in a European Tradition - Brenda Walker

4 'My Memory Has a Mind of Its Own': Watching the Climbers on the Mountain and The Tivington Nott - Peter Pierce

5 Alex Miller: Migrant Writer - Ingeborg van Teeseling

6 The Presence of Absence in The Sitters- Ronald A. Sharp

7 Like/Unlike: Portraiture, Similitude and the Craft of Words in The Sitters - Brigitta Olubas

8 An Artist in the Family: Reconfigurations of Romantic Paradigms in Prochownik's Dream - Adrian Caesar

9 Representing 'the Other' in the Fiction of Alex Miller - Elizabeth Webby

10 Continental Heartlands and Alex Miller's Geosophical Imaginary - Elizabeth McMahon

11 Personal Perspectives on the Central Queensland Novels - Frank Budby, Elizabeth Hatte and Anita Heiss

12 The Frontier Wars: History and Fiction in Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell - Shirley Walker

13 Old Testament Prophets, New Testament Saviours: Reading Retribution and Forgiveness Towards Whiteness in Journey to the Stone Country - Liliana Zavaglia

14 Dougald's Goat: Alex Miller and the Species Barrier - David Brooks

15 The Ruin of Time and the Temporality of Belonging: Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell - Brigid Rooney

16 Trusting the Words: Reflections on Landscape of Farewell - Raimond Gaita

17 Autumn Laing - Geordie Williamson

Biography

Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.