Readers, writers, publishers
Subtitle: essays and poems
By: edited by Brian Matthews
Contributors: Matthews, Brian (Brian Ernest)
Series: Occasional paper -- 25; Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) -- no. 22.
Publisher: Australian Academy of the Humanities
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Books and reading; Congresses; Authors and publishers; Authors and readers; Publishers and publishing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Poems; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: pt. 2. Essays; title: Who owns the words we use? / Peter Porter; title: Backstage at the republic of letters / Inga Clendinnen; title: Genre bending: from crossover history to autobiographical travel / Iain McCalman; title: Uneasy truces and the failure of nerve in scholarly publishing / Jane Arms; title: 'Long may they rave!': criticism and magazines / Peter Rose; title: The secret reading life of us / Tim Dolin; title: From medieval to medievalist - and back again? / Stephanie Trigg; title: Ideas and imagination / Ian Templeman; title: The experiment of reading: faltering expectations / Hermina Burns; title: Authority/auctority: genre, games and discourse / Lucy Sussex; title: The public and the critical culture / Morag Fraser.