| Description |
187 pages ; 21 cm |
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Occasional paper ; 25 |
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Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) ; no. 25
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Poems -- Killing a mosquito, Alcestis and the poet, English sbtitles, A pilosopher of captions, Sonata form: the Australian Magpie, What I have written I have written, The future / Peter Porter -- We being ghosts cannot catch hold of things, The rescue will not take place, Ending with a preposition, The missing lyric, Along the bough, Those celestial harmonies, Do I sleep or am I slept?, A language / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Why biographers fudge it, The child in the gardens: Winter, River road due south, The monastic life, Nice morning for it, Adam / Vincent O'Sullivan -- pt. 2. Essays -- Who owns the words we use? / Peter Porter -- Backstage at the republic of letters / Inga Clendinnen -- Genre bending: from crossover history to autobiographical travel / Iain McCalman -- Uneasy truces and the failure of nerve in scholarly publishing / Jane Arms -- 'Long may they rave!': criticism and magazines / Peter Rose -- The secret reading life of us / Tim Dolin -- From medieval to medievalist - and back again? / Stephanie Trigg -- Ideas and imagination / Ian Templeman -- The experiment of reading: faltering expectations / Hermina Burns -- Authority/auctority: genre, games and discourse / Lucy Sussex -- The public and the critical culture / Morag Fraser |
| Summary |
"Readers, writers, publishers: Essays and poems brings together fourteen leading creative writers, editors, publishers, literary agents and scholars to consider the current state of reading, writing and publishing and the interrelatedness of these activities"--Book Jacket |
| Notes |
Essays and poems presented at the Australian Academy of the Humanities' 2003 symposium |
| Bibliography |
Contains bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) no:25 1443-7678 |
| Subject |
Publishers and publishing -- Australia.
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Fiction -- Appreciation -- Congresses.
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Books and reading -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Authors and readers -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Authors and publishers -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Writers & Scholars
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Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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Australian essays -- 21st century.
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Authors and readers -- Australia.
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Authors and publishers -- Australia.
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Fiction -- Appreciation.
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Books and reading -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Matthews, Brian (Brian Ernest)
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Australian Academy of the Humanities. Symposium (33rd : 2003 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
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| LC no. |
2005412053 |
| ISBN |
0909897565 |
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