Walking through<em> Seven Poor Men of Sydney</em>

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