Article: Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. (JAS Review of Books). (book review)

Delys Bird, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee (eds), Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000, University of Queensland Press, 2001, pp 401, pb $30.00.

The title of this ambitious book suggests to me that readers will be provided with a critical analysis of the most recent developments of Australian literary criticism. Such a book would be a welcome contribution to current debates on the position of Australian literary criticism in the context of world literary criticism heritage. I was a little disappointed because the book is in fact an anthology of selected documents of Australian literary criticism, many of which are incomplete or ...






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