Books | Articles & Essays | Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
Dissertations | Profiles | Reviews
Dissertations | Profiles | Reviews
Books
- Ackland, Michael, The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail (Amherst MA & New York: Cambria, 2012).
- Costello, Moya, Harriet Chandler: A Novella (Short Odds, 2014).
- Daniel, Helen, Liars: Australian New Novelists (Ringwood: Penguin, 1998).
- Gelder, Ken, & Paul Salzman, After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2009).
- Gelder, Ken, & Paul Salzman, The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-88 (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1989).
- Goodwin, Ken, History of Australian Literature (Basingstoke & London: Macmillan, 1986).
- Samuels, Selina, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 325: Australian Writers, 1975-2000 (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006).
Articles & Essays
- Ackland, Michael, ‘Beneath the Camouflage: Mimicry and Settler False Consciousness in the Fiction of Murray Bail’, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 17.2 (2011), pp. 72-89.
- Ackland, Michael, ‘“Matisse is Jammed with Confidence”: Painting and Creative Inspiration in the Early Writings of Murray Bail’, Westerly, 56.1 (2011), pp. 47-63.
- Ackland, Michael, ‘“On all fours passing, tintinnabulation”: Murray Bail’s Creative Case against the Imperial Word’, in The Tapestry of the Creative Word in Anglophone Literatures, ed. by Caterina Colomba, Maria Renata Dolce, Stefano Mercanti, & Antonella Riem Natale (Udine: Forum, 2013), pp. 213-240.
- Ackland, Michael, ‘Politics, Clichés and the “Lurky Country”: Murray Bail’s Critique of National Mythologies in Holden’s Performance’, ZFA, 25 (2011), pp. 27-41.
- Ackland, Michael, ‘“We Are All Philosophers; We Cannot Help Being”: Credos, Life-Choices and Philosophy in Murray Bail’s The Pages’, JASAL, 12.3 (2012), pp. 1-13.
- Attridge, John, ‘Detourism: Murray Bail’s Photographic Fiction’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 39.3 (2004), pp. 69-91.
- Cabarcos Traseira, María Jesús, ‘Landscaping and Narrating White Australian-ness in Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus’, in Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity: Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. by Francisco Cota Fagundes, & Irene Maria F. Blayer (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 189-201.
- Chisholm, Anne, ‘The Blue Biro World of Murray Bail’, National Times, 15-21 February 1981, pp. 41-42.
- Craven, Peter, ‘Murray Bail: The Homemade Modernist finds a Heart’, Heat, 9 (1998), pp. 75-91.
- Dixon, Robert, ‘“The Great Australian Emptiness Revisited”: Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance’, first published in Australian Literary Studies, 15.1 (May 1991), pp. 26-37 (on Academic Search Premier, search.epnet.com: 1-9).
- Flanery, Patrick Denman, ‘A Theory of Hands’, Times Literary Supplement, 22 & 29 August 2008.
- Hassan, Ihab, ‘Changelings in Janglish: Or, How Australian Is It?’, in English Now: Selected Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference in Lund 2007, ed. by Marianne Thormählen (Lund: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, 2008), pp. 162-74.
- Henighan, Stephen, ‘Planting Australia’, Times Literary Supplement, 3 July 1998, p. 19.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Linearity as Metadiscourse in Murray Bail’s Fiction’, Anglophonia / Caliban (French Journal of English Studies): Divergences and Convergences, 21 (2007), pp. 225-237.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘La Linéarité comme métadiscours dans l’œuvre de Murray Bail’ (augmented version), MethIS (Méthodes et Interdisciplinarité en Sciences humaines), 1 (2008), pp. 141-158.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘À l’orée du soi : poétique de l’extime dans les carnets autobiographiques de Murray Bail’, in Esthétique et Spiritualité III : À l’école de la vie intérieure, approches interdisciplinaires, ed. by Jérémy Lambert, & Andrée Lerousseau (Fernelmont & Paris: EME (Éditions Modulaires Européennes) & CEI (Collectif des Éditeurs Indépendants), 2013), pp. 179-192.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: an Australian Fairy Tale?’, in The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed. by Gordon Collier, Geoff Davis, Marc Delrez, & Bénédicte Ledent (Leiden: Brill, Cross/Cultures 193, 2016), pp. 247-253.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘A Piano Made in Australia: Reinventing an Emblem of Cultural Wealth in Murray Bail’s The Voyage’, Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 31.2 (2017), pp. 361-373.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Remapping Australia: Murray Bail's New Topographies of the Self in the Notebooks’, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 40.2 (2018), pp. 9-22.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Spatial Linearity and Post-Colonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance’, in A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth, ed. by Stella Borg Barthet (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, Cross/Cultures 117, 2009), pp. 149-164.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Towards an Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation of Enlightenment Thinking in Murray Bail’s The Pages’, in Under Construction: Postcolonial Gateways and Walls, ed. by Janet Wilson, & Daria Tunca (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2016), pp. 87-106.
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Twisting the Australian realist short story: Murray Bail's “Camouflage”’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54.1 (2018), pp. 83-94. (Reissued by Routledge in book format (2019).
- Herbillon, Marie, ‘Writing Space in the Plural: New Australian Geographies in Murray Bail’s Fiction’, The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA), 7.2 (2016), pp. 41-57.
- Jacobs, Lyn, ‘The “Good Oil”: Eucalypts and Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus’, Antipodes, 15.1 (June 2001), pp. 40-46.
- Johinke, Rebecca, ‘Misogyny, Muscles and Machines: Cars and Masculinity in Australian Literature’, in Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature, ed. by David Callahan (London & Portland OR: Frank Cass, 2002), pp. 95-111.
- Kušnír, Jaroslav, ‘Colonization and Displacement in Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus’, in Literatures in English in the Context of Post-Colonialism, Postmodernism and the Present, ed. by Jaroslav Kušnír (Prešov: Jaroslav Kušnír, 2007), pp. 210-218.
- Kušnír, Jaroslav, ‘Michael Wilding, Murray Bail, Rodney Hall and Frank Moorhouse’, in A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900, ed. by Nicholas Birns, & Rebecca McNeer (Rochester NY: Camden, 2007), pp. 345-358.
- Lee, Hermione, ‘Thinking about the World’, Guardian, 23 August 2008.
- McNeer, Rebecca, ‘Happily Ever After: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus’, Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, 16.2 (December 2002), pp. 171-176.
- Martin, Susan K., ‘The Wood from the Trees: Taxonomy and the Eucalypt as the New National Hero in Recent Australian Writing’, JASAL, 3 (2004), pp. 81-94.
- Pons, Xavier, ‘Australia Takes on the World: Identity and Representation in Murray Bail’s Homesickness’, Commonwealth, 14.1 (1991), pp. 1-8.
- Saguaro, Shelley, ‘Telling Trees: Eucalyptus, “Anon,” and the Growth of Co-evolutionary Histories’, Mosaic, 42.3 (September 2009), pp. 39-56.
- Sayers, Stuart, ‘A Search for Something Else’, Age, 9 August 1980, p. 26.
- Selles, Colette, ‘Language and Secondarity in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance’, Commonwealth, 20.1. (1997), pp. 77-85.
- Sharrad, Paul, ‘Estranging an Icon: Eucalyptus and India’, Interventions, 9.1 (2007), pp. 31-48.
- Spinks, Lee, ‘Texts and Counter-Texts: The Allegorical Art of Murray Bail’, SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific, 39.2 (October 1994), pp. 1-14.
- Thomas, Glen, ‘Patrick White and Murray Bail: Appropriations of “The Prodigal Son”’, first published in Australian Literary Studies, 15.1 (May 1991), pp. 81-86 (on Academic Search Premier, search.epnet.com: 1-6).
- Wilson, Robert R., ‘The Discourse of Museums: Exhibiting Postmodernism’, Open Letter, 7.1 (1988), pp. 93-110.
- Wilson, Robert R., ‘History Becomes (His) Story: Murray Bail’s Homesickness and Robert Kroetsch’s Alibi’, in The Writer as Historical Witness: Studies in Commonwealth Literature, ed. by Edwin Thumboo, & Thiru Kandiah (Singapore: UniPress, 1995), pp. 161-166.
Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
- Ackland, Michael, ‘Murray Bail’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 325: Australian Writers, 1975-2000, ed. by Selina Samuels (Farmington Hills MI: Thomson Gale, 2006), pp. 24-30.
Dissertations
- Herbillon, Marie, 'Beyond the Line: Murray Bail's Spatial Poetics', PhD dissertation, University of Liège, Belgium, 2005.
- Herbillon, Marie, 'Between the Lines: Unravelling the Cult(ure) of Linearity in Murray Bail's Holden's Performance', PhD dissertation, University of Liège, Belgium, 2016.
Reviews [under construction]
Fiction
Eucalyptus
- McKemmish, Ian, Meanjin, 57.4 (1998), pp. 828-831.
- Norton, James, Flak Magazine, n.d..
- Ross, Margaret Clunies, Southerly, 63.1 (2003), pp. 220-222.
- Seaman, Donna, ‘Sleeping Beauty in Australia’, Bookwire, n.d..
The Pages
Non-Fiction
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