Monthly Archives: April 2013

Searching for the Literary Grail

David Lodge’s novel “Small World” has been variously described as a “campus novel”, a clever piece of “critifiction” (a combination of literary theory and practice) and an example of “metafiction”, a literary technique which self-consciously draws attention to the fact … Continue reading

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Vote for Me (please)!

The People’s Choice Award in the Best Australian Blogs Competition is now open for voting. If you’ve read and enjoyed anything I’ve written on here, I’d love it if you’d vote for me. Just go to http://www.writerscentre.com.au/bloggingcomp/peopleschoice.html and vote before … Continue reading

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Behind a Bush with Nietzsche

In his famous essay “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche proposed the metaphoric scenario “when someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there … Continue reading

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