Category Archives: Books

Searching for the Literary Grail

Posted on April 22, 2013 by annegreen2013

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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Behind a Bush with Nietzsche

Posted on April 4, 2013 by annegreen2013

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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Home on the Range with Freud or How I’m Learning to Love Literary Theory

Posted on March 23, 2013 by annegreen2013

Freud and cowboys aren’t concepts one intuitively links together; not like say fish and chips or (to be Freudian about it) boys and girls.  They weren’t to me, at least not until I read Clare Connors’ book “Literary Theory:  A … Continue reading →

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A hundred things to like about Canberra

Posted on March 19, 2013 by annegreen2013

Last time I visited Canberra was some time back in the 1980s, when there was only one Parliament House.  My recent visit coincided fortuitously with the hundredth birthday of the capital, which was founded on 12th March 1913.  It’s not … Continue reading →

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Writers’ Week Wrap-Up

Posted on March 11, 2013 by annegreen2013

My Writers Week experience was, as noted previously, my first but it certainly won’t be my last.  What I saw of it I loved.  Regrettably I only managed four sessions out of a huge array of many more, but the … Continue reading →

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Bitterly Dreary – aka Literary Theory

Posted on February 24, 2013 by annegreen2013

I found the image above when I was doing a bit of obsessive-compulsive boning up for my forthcoming final (thank the god of philosophers) subject for my MA in Creative Writing, which starts tomorrow.  It about sums up what I anticipate … Continue reading →

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Adelaide Writers’ Week

Posted on February 19, 2013 by annegreen2013

For both writers and readers, attending Adelaide Writers’ Week is a treat not to be missed.  For an Adelaide writer (like me), attending is pretty much obligatory.  As both Writers’ Week and I (me?) have been around in Adelaide since the sixties, … Continue reading →

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