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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Writing country: lightning, agony, and vertigo |
Author: | Castro, B. |
Citation: | Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2014; 14(3):1-11 |
Publisher: | Association for the Study of Australian Literature |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 1833-6027 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Brian Castro |
Abstract: | This keynote addresses the topic of "style" in Australian letters. It speculates that "Australian style" is very much a product of a melancholic personality, and that being "unhoused" is the modern condition of a writer's formation. The paper also goes on to explore how biography and autobiography are imaginatively interwoven to produce the uncanny in narrative; a puzzlement about the real which makes it difficult to live without writing. Proposing that there are three stages in the composition of a novel: lightning, agony and vertigo, it is suggested that there is an overlay of this pattern upon the trajectory of a writer's career, from early disturbances, through production of work, to late style. |
Published version: | http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/3111 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 English publications |
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