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Literary Studies

The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos

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May 2017, no. 391
Paul Kildea reviews 'The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables' by David Bellos

Visiting the actor Simon Gleeson in 2014 a few months after he was cast as Jean Valjean in a new production of Les Misérables, I was startled by the bulked-up friend who met me from the train ...

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The Némirovsky Question: The life, death and legacy of a Jewish writer in 20th century France by Susan Rubin Suleiman

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May 2017, no. 391
Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'The Némirovsky Question: The life, death and legacy of a Jewish writer in 20th century France' by Susan Rubin Suleiman

When Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française appeared in 2004, it was a huge success, in France and throughout the English-speaking world as well ...

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A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her work by Bernadette Brennan

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May 2017, no. 391
Jan McGuinness reviews 'A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her work' by Bernadette Brennan

Who is the I in Helen Garner’s work? This is the question Bernadette Brennan probes by canvassing more than forty years of Garner’s writing and her seventy-four-year existence ...

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Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers by Sue Joseph

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April 2017, no. 390
Tali Lavi reviews 'Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers' by Sue Joseph

What’s in a name? Academic Sue Joseph interviews eleven Australian non-fiction writers, a varied group which includes Paul McGeough, Doris Pilkington Garimara, and Kate Holden. Joseph is on a quest to uncover whether Australian ‘creative non-fiction’ exists here, as it does in other countries, and to understand what the term signifies to her subjects.

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Australian Literary Studies edited by Julieanne Lamond

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April 2017, no. 390

Until 2015, Australian Literary Studies was still a printed artefact. It appeared in the mildly erratic pattern endemic to Australian humanities journals, which depend on busy people finding time for the rewarding but often unrewarded task of editing. Nevertheless, despite rising production costs and increasing competition from the online world, it remained ...

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950 edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams

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April 2017, no. 390
Paul Giles reviews 'The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950' edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams

The latest instalment in the Oxford History of the Novel in English is notable for having one of its editors based in Australia and the other two in New Zealand. As these editors admit in their introduction, this volume is ‘something of a hybrid when set alongside the other eleven volumes that make up the series’, since it is organised partly by historical date, ...

A History of New Zealand Literature edited by Mark Williams

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April 2017, no. 390
Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams

A History of New Zealand Literature is a rewarding collection replete with the pleasure of new information that is both strange and strangely familiar. I commend it for both its intrinsic interest and, for Australian readers in particular, as one means of redressing Australia and New Zealand’s mutual ignorance of each other’s literary histories and cult ...

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world by William Egginton

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November 2016, no. 386
Gabriel García Ochoa reviews 'The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world' by William Egginton

The four-hundredth anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’s death serves as a good reminder of the influence and importance of his oeuvre, and perhaps too of our strange obsession with ...

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Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein

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October 2016, no. 385
John Hawke reviews 'Pitch of Poetry' by Charles Bernstein

When Viktor Shklovsky, in his famous 1917 essay 'Art as Technique', asserts that the fundamental task of the poetic function is one of 'making strange' the reader's ...

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Release the Bats by DBC Pierre & The Writer’s Room by Charlotte Wood

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October 2016, no. 385
Jen Webb reviews 'Release the Bats: Writing your way out of it' by DBC Pierre and 'The Writer’s Room: Conversations about writing' by Charlotte Wood

Writers have, it seems, an insatiable appetite for reading about writing; and such advice comes in various forms. There are books that promise to teach their readers how to write in any ...

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