BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

on earth with the potential to develop into the Thomist conception of the I deal State. I n the Keneally corpus, generally, ther ...

The Survivor story is presented by Sir Anthony Piers, who, as a young man was a landscape artist, an important point because thi ...

expression of that theme found in Bring Larks and Heroes, in the marriage of Halloran and Anne Rush; that one can rely on a ‘cra ...

and enjoyed more the splitting of coalitions than the parting of the vulva” (Keneally, 1975:189). Keneally constructs this novel ...

contents of the external world, including synchronistic phenomena (Tarnas, 2006:84). Thus, the many references to implicit if no ...

young masters” (1975:201) the young soldiers like pubescent schoolboys “ ... in the toilets reading ... something as innocent as ...

motif or archetype and its latent sexual power. Indeed, the idea of particular motifs continuing through the canon gains credenc ...

is the biography of Oskar Schindler, who is in actuality, simply a survivor too, a fact that Keneally often hints at in the text ...

The Jewish children in the concentration camps suffer a kind of death too, a death of childhood for they possess an awareness be ...

‘religion’. When poetry was something that happened ‘outside’ the covers of books, when song was magical and shook the sun, when ...

disguised or profound truth emerging from a seemingly Mills and Boone narrative. McCullough’s work and range of subjects is imme ...

advances to him and his young, homosexual, but now deceased friend. I ronically, this incident seems to have resulted from the g ...

Every mythology seems to have some designations for the dog, as psychopomp (Anubis, Cerebus, Thoth); dogs act as intermediaries ...

nevertheless reminds him that roses have thorns (McCullough, 1977:210). I t is when Dane, the child born out of Ralph and Meggie ...

unsanctioned union of Tim and Mary, a union that is spiritual and later physical. I t is there, near the beach and the archetypa ...

The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987) was the work that McCullough was accused of plagiarising from The Blue Castle (1926) written by ...

millennium, an anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ. The book continually reverses current geopolitical arrangements, for ...

Man” (McCullough, 1985:326). Judith confronts Joshua about his messianic obsession by telling him: I f there is any reason in th ...

Generally, the male characters in the McCullough corpus seem to be deficient or damaged; or at least dull, thick and lacking any ...

powerful narratives with imagery that re-enchants place in a way that is both artistic and shamanic and where, although the fict ...