For Veronica Brady

Veronica Brady: A Fringe of Leaves: Civilization by the Skin of Our Own Teeth

Patrick white set the terms of the debate over his work when in his essay “Prodigal Son” he declared his hope that he might “be helping the people of a barely inhabited country to become a race possessed of understanding”. In other words, he sees his work as providing a kind of gnosis. Critical debate therefore has quite properly turned on the quality, and in particular, on the implications of ...

Veronica Brady: ‘A Thick Crumbly Slice of Life.’ “The Fortunes of Richard Mahony” as a Cultural Monument

Every literary text, it can be argued, is a cultural object “with a causation, persistence, durability and social presence quite its own”. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Henry Handel Richardson's monumental attempt to construct an Australian classic, is quite particularly concerned with this social presence, and expresses it as much perhaps at the unconscious as at the conscious level. For not...

Ryan Brady

An Isoperimetric Function for Bestvina-brady Groups

Given a right-angled Artin group A, the associated BestvinaBrady group is defined to be the kernel of the homomorphism A → Z that maps each generator in the standard presentation of A to a fixed generator of Z. We prove that the Dehn function of an arbitrary finitely presented BestvinaBrady group is bounded above by n. This is the best possible universal upper bound.

The Brady Bunch