Walking through Seven Poor Men of Sydney

Authors

  • Peter Kirkpatrick The University of Western Sydney

Keywords:

Christina Stead, Sydney, realism

Abstract

The paper explores the apparent disjunction between 'realism' and the 'poetic' in Christina Stead's Seven Poor Men of Sydney and argues that the novel's 'hallucinatory' qualities are, in part, a function of the constnat peripatetic movements of Stead's characters.

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Published

2013-02-02

Issue

1999: Australian Writing and the City

Section

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How to Cite

Walking through Seven Poor Men of Sydney. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 62-67. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9569