A.A. Phillips

About The Author

A.A. (Arthur Angell) Phillips was born in Melbourne in 1900 and died in 1985. He was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, and was a schoolmaster at Wesley College, Melbourne. He published several books of criticism, including The Australian Tradition, and had a long association with Meanjin, in which his article about the cultural cringe first appeared.

Books by A.A. Phillips

On The Cultural Cringe
By A.A. Phillips
The Australian writer, critic and teacher A.A. Phillips coined the term 'the cultural cringe' in 1950 to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas, particularly in Britain and the United States. The term has resonated in debates about...
Learn More
BACK TO TOP