In their novels DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf focus on the inner lives of characters.   The authors use differing strategies to construct a picture of an inner life (such as representing differing states of consciousness,  or contrasting inner feelings with external realities).   

In The Third Man, Graham Greene gives expression to his impatience with the Cold War politics of the time by refusing to take an ideological stance on either side.   Instead, he offers a parody of the Cold War, as Rollo Martins turns Old Vienna into the American Old West in his search for the killers of his hero, Harry Lime.     

In " 1988" McGahan focuses on the solitude and loneliness that comes about from the alienating experience of exposure to unknown language and culture.  Winton, in " That eye The Sky", on the other hand, examines the loneliness of alienation within a family that comes about because of age differences and cultural attitudes.

Marcia Langton criticised the notion that only Aboriginal people could make authentic representations of themselves, as racist. This statement is discussed by examining/comparing representations within film by both non-Indigenous and Aboriginal filmmakers.

Writings by three women writers of the American "South" are analysed and compared to determine common themes associated with their writings. The questions of identity formation is approached in different ways but with similar conclusions.   The theme of the "absent mother" is explored by these writers as is the topic of the composition of male-female relationships.