The Emptiness Within

Authors

  • Mark Byrne The University of Sydney

Abstract

In this paper I want to explore what it is like to live with an 'empty centre'. I will do this by first of all summarising how Australia has been seen as an empty place in the European imagination, and then by interpreting the journeys of European Australians to the outback as a metaphor for the 'journey within'.

Author Biography

  • Mark Byrne, The University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney
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A Grain of Eternity: 1997 Australian International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference Proceedings

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