Book Launch of "Lohrey" by Julieanne Lamond
Book launch
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it. About this event You are cordially invited to join us for the launch of Lohrey, by Julieanne Lamond, published by Melbourne…
Ekphrasis and ethical self-reflexivity in contemporary Australian poetry
Seminar
Please register for this event to recieve Zoom details Many poets have treated ekphrasis as an opportunity for reflection on their own artistic practice: they examine the capacities and limits of their own form by comparing it to another. This self-reflection involves ethical as well as aesthetic…
‘Meaning, for me, is connection’: Merve Emre and Joseph Steinberg on Gerald Murnane
Seminar
Please note, you must pre-register for this online webinar. Gerald Murnane’s meticulously self-curated 'Chronological Archive' – as distinct from his ‘Literary Archive’ and ‘Antipodean Archive’, both of which he likewise compiled – fills no fewer than ‘twenty-one of the twenty-four drawers in six…
How Global is Australian Literature in the 21st century? A story of gender, genre and the international literary field
Seminar
How global is Australian literature in the twenty-first century? This large question generates many others, the two most obvious being: What is meant by global? What is meant by Australian literature? These are important but technical, easily answered. The real question is: What might the answer to…
The First Person at Work: The Fiction of Helen Garner’s Autobiographical Self
Seminar
Over the course of her long career, Helen Garner has regularly been accused of writing too autobiographically for a novelist; of drawing too readily on her diaries; of lacking a narrative arc in her fiction. This paper turns this accusation on its head to suggest that the first person of Garner’s…
The Australasian Book Society: Making a Literary Working Class During the Cultural Cold War
Seminar
For access to the Zoom ID and Password for this seminar, please send an email enquiry to : monique.rooney@anu.edu.au “To encourage mass participation in and responsibility for the publication of progressive Australian literature” was one of the masthead aims of the Australasian Book…
'Believe in Me' Talk and Q&A with Lucy Neave and Kathryn Hind
Seminar
Lucy Neave will give a short talk about the forces that shaped the writing of her novel, Believe in Me (UQP, 2021), followed by a Q&A with Kathryn Hind. Lucy Neave is the author of the novels Believe in Me (2021) and Who We Were (2013), a Griffith Review…