Add to ORKGIn this paper I want to explore what it is like to live with an 'empty centre'. I will do this by first of all summarising how Australia has been seen as an empty place in the European imagination, and then by interpreting the journeys of European Australians to the outback as a metaphor for the 'journey within'
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This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived fr...
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The paper argues that Paul Carter has outlined the psychic constitution of 'Australia' but not fully...
This thesis explores the sense of place formed during childhood, as remembered by adult Australians ...
The paper discusses metropolitan imaginings of the outback and the nature of its terrain in the live...
This thesis contains a critical component and a creative component, both of which take suburban Aust...
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For seventy years after federation, Australians fretted over the "empty north" of their continent. T...
Australia has long been described as an empty space and a site of monstrous inversion. As is well kn...
Narratives of place have always been crucial to the construction of Australian identity. The obsessi...
During the interwar years, Australians grew increasingly anxious about their sparsely populated nort...
This article explores how the imaginative use of the landscape in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (2008) in...
George Johnstone's Clean Straw for Nothing (1969) and Tim Winton's The Riders (1994) belong to the s...
As the world moves beyond nationalism into larger global corporate communities, one response has bee...
This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived fr...
This article uses a discussion of David Malouf's novel 'An Imaginary Life' to explore the way that A...
The paper argues that Paul Carter has outlined the psychic constitution of 'Australia' but not fully...
This thesis explores the sense of place formed during childhood, as remembered by adult Australians ...
The paper discusses metropolitan imaginings of the outback and the nature of its terrain in the live...
This thesis contains a critical component and a creative component, both of which take suburban Aust...
In Feb 2014 Bruno Latour gave a lecture at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen on the affects of capital...
This paper explores the way silence has been defined and redefined as a means of describing the Aust...
For seventy years after federation, Australians fretted over the "empty north" of their continent. T...
Australia has long been described as an empty space and a site of monstrous inversion. As is well kn...
Narratives of place have always been crucial to the construction of Australian identity. The obsessi...
During the interwar years, Australians grew increasingly anxious about their sparsely populated nort...
This article explores how the imaginative use of the landscape in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (2008) in...
George Johnstone's Clean Straw for Nothing (1969) and Tim Winton's The Riders (1994) belong to the s...
As the world moves beyond nationalism into larger global corporate communities, one response has bee...
This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived fr...