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'From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other.
Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about—sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city’s cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself. Adelaide: a literary city broadens and deepens our understanding of Adelaide as a city of creativity and culture.' (Publisher's website)
Contents
- Adelaide as Literary City : Introduction, single work criticism (p. 1-17)
- Acts of Writing, single work criticism (p. 19-38)
- A Colonial Wordsmith : George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860-1870, single work criticism (p. 39-55)
- Scots and Scottish Literature in Literary Adelaide, single work criticism (p. 57-75)
- 'An Entertaining Young Genius' : C.J. Dennis and Adelaide, single work criticism (p. 77-93)
- Adelaide Around 1935 : Stories of Herself When Young, single work criticism (p. 95-110)
- Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension, single work criticism (p. 111-123)
- 'Fearful Affinity' : Jindyworobak Primitivism, single work criticism (p. 125-146)
- The Athens of the South, single work criticism (p. 147-161)
- Max Harris : A Phenomenal Adelaide Literary Figure, single work criticism (p. 163-181)
- Geoffrey Dutton : Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere, single work criticism (p. 183-198)
- New York Nowhere, single work poetry (p. 199-238)
- A Coffee With Ken : Ken Bolton's Adelaide, single work criticism (p. 239-251)
- 'A Dozy City' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the Night Girl, single work criticism (p. 253-266)
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Review : Adelaide: A Literary City
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;
— Review of Adelaide : A Literary City 2014 anthology criticism poetry
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Review : Adelaide: A Literary City
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;
— Review of Adelaide : A Literary City 2014 anthology criticism poetry