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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 The Uncertain Self : Essays in Australian Literature and Criticism
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Oxford University Press , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Uncertain Self : Notes on the Development of Australian Literary Form, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 1-21)
The Metamorphoses of Henry Kendall, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism biography
Heseltine discusses Kendall's attempts to create a "literary" personality. In his search for a literary self Kendall explored aboriginal, biblical and classical themes. Kendall's quest to mythologize an uncertain self into a sustaining identity, Heseltine argues, enabled similar searches by Australia's later poets.
 (p. 22-41)
Between Living and Dying : The Ground of Lawson's Art, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism
Heseltine employs a musical metaphor to show that the integrity of Lawson's great tales of the 1890s "resides in his determination to hold the balance between the spiritual wasteland he perceived in his own and other lives and the tantalising but illusory promise of rebirth he could not help but entertain".
 (p. 42-55)
The Confessions of a Beachcomber, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 56-71)
`Wherefore I Think' : Notes on the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 72-82)
Wrestling with the Angel : Judith Wright's Poetry in the 1950s, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 83-90)
Diversions and Obsessions: A. D. Hope and Robert D. FitzGerald, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work review
— Review of Product : Later Verses Robert D. FitzGerald , 1977 selected work poetry ; A Book of Answers A. D. Hope , 1978 selected work poetry ; (p. 91-96)
`A Rich Surplus of Consciousness' : A Response to the Poetry of Francis Webb, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 97-111)
Eve Langley : Oscar Wilde in the Blue Mountains, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism
Heseltine explores Langley's fascination with Oscar Wilde, arguing that Langley's fiction represents an inevitable transformation into the Irish writer. The events that lead to this transformation are dramatized in The Pea-pickers and White Topee as Eve uses others to bring her closer to the pleasures of aesthetic creation. At the end of the Pea-pickers Eve stands alone with her troubled self, but at the end of White Topee she stands alone with Oscar Wilde, the alter ego which has taken possession of her being.
 (p. 112-130)
Hal Porter and the Art of Autobiography, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 131-146)
The Emotional Structure of "The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony", Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 147-158)
Criticism and the Universities, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 159-169)
The Criticism of Arthur Phillips, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 188-200)
5 April 1984 : The Two Winstons, Harry Payne Heseltine , single work criticism (p. 201-209)
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