Writing and politics : contexts and debates -- Writing and politics after Beckett -- "Joey rules" : telling the truth in Life & times of Michael K -- "An author I have not read" : Foe, Crime and punishment, and the problem of the novel -- Genre and countergenre : Age of iron, Pamela, and Don Quixote -- "Redemption" or "Deligitimization"? : the artist on trial in The master of Petersburg -- "Is this the right image of our nation?" : Disgrace and the seriousness of the novel -- Cultural criticism in the Australian fiction.