VCE Literature guide - units 3 & 4, 2026

Copies of the text

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Study guides

• CAE notes on Alias Grace

Books on the author and her novels

• Print and e-Books on Margaret Atwood

Reviews

• Kimmel, D. (1999) In search of alias grace: On writing Canadian historical fiction. The Canadian Historical Review, 80(2), 312-313.
• Auerbach, Nina. Alias Grace The Women's Review of Books, vol. 14, no. 7, Apr. 1997

Analysis

• Peters, Joan Douglas. Feminist narratology revisited: dialogizing gendered rhetorics in Alias Grace.  Style, vol. 49, no. 3, fall 2015, pp. 299-320
• Ravizza, E. (2019). Exploring otherness in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Ethical and epistemological reflections on historiographic metafiction British and American Studies, 25, 143-152,282.
• Lovelady, Stephanie. I Am Telling This to No One But You: Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, pp. 35-63.

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the Text

Copies of the text

Copies of the text

• Drylands : a Book for the World’s Last Reader by Thea Astley. 
  • The Library holds print copies and also legal deposit online copies - note access to the online copies is restricted to use within the Library due to publisher conditions.

Analysis

• Xiuqing,Zhang  Ecofeminism in Thea Astley’s Drylands  Advances in Language and Literary Studies  vol. 11 no. 3, 2020 p. 42-45
• Brayshaw, M. The death of Australian literature in Thea Astley’s Drylands. Queensland Review, 26(2), 2019, 256-268.
  • this entire issue of the Queensland Review is about Thea Astley's work
• ‘Potter,Emily No Nails New under the Sun’ : Creativity, Climate Change, and the Challenge to Literary Narrative in Thea Astley’s Drylands TEXT Special Issue Website Series, no. 40, 2017

General articles about her work

• items discussing her work from our Gale Literature database

Copies of text

• Various copies of text held at the Library. Note the eBook copy is only available within the Library

Reviews

• Funnell, Linda Our Sunshine Newtown Reviw of Books 11 Feb 2012
• Reimer, Andrew The Kelly myth refined (Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe) The Sydney Morning Herald. 23  Nov, 1991.
• Shapcott, Tom Our First Teen Rebels in a Bravado Performance  The Age Extra 16 Nov 1991, p. 7

Analysis

• Huggan, Graham. Cultural memory in postcolonial fiction: the uses and abuses of Ned Kelly. Australian Literary Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, May 2002, pp. 142+
• Willbanks, R. (1993). Ned Kelly returns [Review of Our Sunshine, by R. Drewe]. Antipodes, 7(2), pp. 151–152.

Copies of the text

• The plains by Gerald Murnane

Analysis

• Wylie, John. Landscape as Not-Belonging: The Plains, Earth Writing, and the Impossibilities of Inhabitation. Philological Quarterly, vol. 97, no. 2, spring 2018, pp. 177+.
• Genoni, Paul. Gerald Murnane Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 362, Gale, 2014. pp. 293-304.
• Birns, Nicholas. Indefinite Desires: Love and the Search for Truth in the Fiction of Gerald Murnane.Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 362, Gale, 2014. Originally published in Southerly, vol. 55, no. 3, 1995, pp. 48-62.

Reviews

• McInerney, Harriet L. Apprehending Landscapes: The Uncanny and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains Antipodes  31, no. 1 (2017): 133–144.

• Gillet, Sue. Gerald Murnane’s ‘The Plains’: A Convenient Source of Metaphors. Ariel 26, no. 2 (1995): 25–39.

• Adam, Ian. The Referentiality of the Deconstructed: Gerald Murnane’s “The Plains Westerly Vol. 36. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1991. (Download pdf and scroll to the page).

Copies of text

• We hold several copies of the text available in print and online

Analysis

• Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Age of Innocence as “Modern” Novel The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostalgia, Twayne Publishers, 1988, pp. 48-54.
• Pizer, Donald. American Naturalism in Its Perfected State. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Jennifer Baise, vol. 83, Gale, 1999. (Originally published in The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism, Southern Illinois University Press, 1993, pp. 153-166).

• McDowell, Margaret B. The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton, Twayne's Author Series, 1976, pp. 92-104.

Overviews

• See this collection of overviews from Gale Literature Database

Copies of the text

• The Yield by Tara June Winch

Reviews & analysis

• Marks, Suzanne Tara June Winch’s The Yield Newtown Review of Books 20 September 2020 (online review)
• Wagner, Erica.The Yield by Tara June Winch review – reclaiming Australia's indigenous voices.  The Guardian, 23 Jan, 2021
• Neerven Ellen van The Yield Australian Book Review August 2019, no. 413 (online)  

Copies of the text

• Miéville, China (2010). The city & the city, New York: Del Rey Ballantine Book

Analysis

• Cowley, Peter, and Barbara Hanna. Breach of Contract: An Intercultural Reading of China Miéville’s the City & the City. Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jennifer Stock, vol. 465, Gale, 2020, pp. 59-71. [Originally published in Portal, vol. 11, no. 2, 2014, pp. 131-153.]
• Kuehmichel, Shannon. Thriving in the gap: visual and linguistic meaning unmaking in The City & The City. Extrapolation, vol. 55, no. 3, fall 2014, pp. 349+.
• Michel, Berit. "A Tale of Two (or Three) Cities’: Urban Reality or Urban Fantasy? Spatial Absurdities in Miéville’s The City and the City. Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jennifer Stock, vol. 465, Gale, 2020. [Originally published in Urban Monstrosities, edited by Joseph DeFalco Lamperez and J. Alexandra McGhee, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 91-107.]

Further resources

• Gale Literature
• SLV Catalogue