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In ABR's seventh 'Poem of the Week' Stephen Edgar discusses and reads his poem 'Man on the Moon'.
... (read more)J.M. Coetzee And The Ethics Of Reading: Literature in the event by Derek Attridge
by Sue Thomas •
For there is always going on within us a process of formulation and interpretation whose subject matter is our own selves.
These words appear towards the end of Erich Auerbach’s study of representation in Western literature, Mimesis. First published in 1946, the book has become a classic of twentieth-century literary criticism, but is almost as famous for the circumstances under which it was composed as for its content. It was written between 1942 and 1945 in Istanbul, where Auerbach, a German Jew, was living in exile.
... (read more)Blood, Sweat and Tears: Australia’s WWII remembered by the men and women who lived it by Margaret Geddes
by Brian Matthews •
The Book of Beginnings: A miscellany of the origins of superstitions, customs, phrases and sayings by R and L Brasch
by Bruce Moore •
The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A fifty-year collection edited by Rob Gerrand
by Chris Palmer •
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The politics of oligarchy in an age of markets by Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz
by Damien Kingsbury •