AN AUSTRALIAN COMPASS Essays on Place and Direction in Australian L~Erature
AN AUSTRALIAN COMPASS Essays on Place and Direction in Australian L~erature BRUCE BENNETT "Bruce Bennett's scholarship is superb ... he ranges wide and free through Australian writing, his impressive fund of information allowing him to make new and challenging connections between unlikely elements of our culture ... No other literary critic now at work has made us more aware of the value of the local in interpreting ourselves to ourselves." HP Heseltine rrp $24.95 FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE PRESS WESTERLY a quarterly review ISSN 0043-342x EDITORS: Bruce Bennett, Peter Cowan, Dennis Haskell EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Margot Luke (prose),DelysBird(poetry),B rendaWalker(reviews) EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS: Diana Brydon (University of Guelph), John Hay (Monash University ),Dorothy Hewett (Sydney ),Brian Matthews (Flinders University), VincentO' Sullivan (Victoria University, Wellington), Peter Porter (London), Anna Ruthelford (University of Aarhus), Edwin Thumboo (National University of Singapore), Albert Wertheim (University of Indiana) ADMINISTRATOR: Caroline Horohin Westerly is published quarterly at the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature in the English Department, University of Western Australia with assistance from The Literary Arts Board of the Australia Council, the Federal government's arts funding and advisory body, and the State Government of W.A. through the Department for the Arts. The opinions expressed in Westerly are those of individual contributors and not of the Editors or Editorial Advisors. Correspondence should be addressed to the Editors, Westerly, Department ofEnglish, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 (telephone (09) 380 210 I). Unsolicited manuscripts not accom panied by a stamped self-addressed envelope will not be returned. All manuscripts must show the name and address of the sender and should be typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper only.
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