Over a fifty-year period, from 1944 to 1994, Thea Astley published a number of critical writings, including essays, newspaper articles and reviews, and short reflections and meditations on her craft. Despite a renewed interest in Astley’s work, however, most critical interrogations of her oeuvre focus on her novels, and more recently her poetry. As a result, Astley’s critical writing has not been afforded the same breadth and depth of investigation as her fiction. This lacuna is troubling, since Astley’s critical works are important not only for their insight, but for what they reveal about Astley’s self-representation, and in particular the dual identity that she embodied as both a teacher and a satirist. This article argues that these dual roles emerge clearly in Astley’s essays and in fact are inextricable from many of her works. Further, the tensions between these two personae — Astley as teacher and Astley as satirist — reveal natural overlaps with her imaginative writing, and reflect her changing ideas about fiction writing, literature, and education.

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双重麻烦：西娅·阿斯特利（Thea Astley）批评著作中的教师/讽刺作家二元性

从 1944 年到 1994 年的五十年间，Thea Astley 发表了许多批判性著作，包括散文、报纸文章和评论，以及对她的技艺的简短反思和沉思。然而，尽管人们对阿斯特利的作品重新产生了兴趣，但对她作品的大多数批判性审问都集中在她的小说上，最近则是她的诗歌。结果，阿斯特利的批判性写作没有像她的小说那样得到广泛和深入的调查。这种缺陷令人不安，因为 Astley 的批评作品不仅对他们的洞察力很重要，而且对他们揭示的 Astley 的自我表现也很重要，尤其是她作为教师和讽刺作家所体现的双重身份。本文认为，这些双重角色在阿斯特利的散文中清晰地出现，实际上与她的许多作品密不可分。更多，