Storykeepers
By: edited by Marion Halligan.
Contributors: Halligan, Marion, 1940-
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Potts Point, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Australian literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Books and reading -- Australia.; Storytelling -- Australia.; Authorship.; Australia -- Intellectual life.; Australia -- In literature.
Notes: Eighteen well-known Australian authors discuss the writers or stories who inspire them. Not only do they give us an insight into their motivations and values, they also provide a map of our own rich heritage.
Table of contents: title: Gary Crew: Their ghosts may be heard : a response to Ernest Favenc's novel Marooned in Australia; title: Greg Dening: Reading to write; title: Libby Gleeson: A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales : an encounter; title: Carmel Bird: the cyclopedia: a short strange secret misty smokey mysterious history; title: Lucy Frost: Displaying Trugernanna; title: Henry Reynolds: On first looking into Rusden's History; title: Dorothy Porter: Calling a spade for Barbara Baynton; title: Rodney Hall: Such is life : the masterpiece that might have changed our literature; title: Bill Gammage: Mrs Aeneas Gunn; title: Beverly Farmer: Coonardoo : the well in the shadow; title: Tim Griffiths: Flying fox and drifting sand : going with the flow; title: Lew Murray: The bellweather brush; title: Delia Falconer: Kenneth Slessor : the intimacy of the table; title: Peter Goldsworthy: Hal Porter : the watcher with a cast-iron alibi; title: Cassandra Pybus: Sing memory : a reverie for Gwen Harwood; title: Alexis Wright: A family document; title: Elizabeth Jolley: Peter Cowan : the criterion and the principle; title: Brian Matthews: Hanson