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The Battle of Acosta Nu single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 The Battle of Acosta Nu
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    y separately published work icon Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1985 Z427426 1985 selected work short story 'Murnane's innovative fictional techniques in Landscape with Landscape have inspired debates regarding whether the text is a novel or a collection of stories. The cover of the Penguin edition uses the terms "stories" and "fiction," but does not label the text either a novel or a collection of short stories [...] In the last section of the work, 'Landscape with Artist,' Murnane's narrator directly addresses the issue, stating, "I had considered again one of the problems that had kept me from showing my manuscripts to a publisher. I tried to decide whether they were a collection of short stories or whether I could combine them and unify them to make them a single novel ... [I] told myself that ... I would ... devise a new form of prose fiction - neither short story nor novel."' (Nathanael O'Reilly Exploring Suburbia p.217) Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1985 pg. 71-122

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Enjoy a Good Short Story : Bruce Gillespie’s Favourite Short Fiction (SF and Fantasy) Published 1977-2006 Bruce Gillespie , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Steam Engine Time , October no. 7 2007; (p. 28-29)

— Review of The Battle of Acosta Nu Gerald Murnane , 1985 single work short story ; Looking Forward to the Harvest Cherry Wilder , 1991 single work short story ; Inhabiting the Interspaces Philippa Maddern , 1979 single work short story ; Pie Row Joe Kevin McKay , 1978 single work short story ; The Caress Greg Egan , 1990 single work short story ; The Fittest George Turner , 1985 single work short story ; A Map of the Mines of Barnath Sean Williams , 1995 single work short story ; On the Turn Leanne Frahm , 1986 single work short story ; The Bone Ship Terry Dowling , 2003 single work short story ; Angel Thing Petrina Smith , 1995 single work short story ; Not with Love Philippa Maddern , 1995 single work short story ; A Man and His Dreams Marele Day , 1996 single work short story ; Wooden Bride Margo Lanagan , 2004 single work short story ; The Dove Game Isobelle Carmody , 2003 single work short story ; White Time Margo Lanagan , 2003 single work short story ; The Gloaming Lucy Sussex , 2000 single work short story ; Number 3 Raw Place Deborah Biancotti , 2004 single work short story ; Singing My Sister Down Margo Lanagan , 2004 single work short story ; The Grinding House Kaaron Warren , 2005 selected work short story novella ; Basic Black Terry Dowling , 1978 single work short story ; One Thing About the Night Terry Dowling , 2005 single work short story ; Fresh Young Widow Kaaron Warren , 2005 single work short story ; Bones Rjurik Davidson , 2004 single work short story ; Re-Deem the Time David J. Lake , 1978 single work short story
May in September : Australian Literature as Anglophone Alternative Nicholas Birns , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 112-132) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 112-132)
Nicholas Birns considers that attractions of Australian literary studies for overseas scholars. In the second part of his essay, Birns offers close readings of several of Gerald Murnane's short stories to argue that paying 'heed to Australian writing can vividly and unpredictably renovate 'English' as a discipline' (128).
y separately published work icon Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165381 1993 single work criticism
On Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , 1986 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 45 no. 4 1986; (p. 518-529)
Enjoy a Good Short Story : Bruce Gillespie’s Favourite Short Fiction (SF and Fantasy) Published 1977-2006 Bruce Gillespie , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Steam Engine Time , October no. 7 2007; (p. 28-29)

— Review of The Battle of Acosta Nu Gerald Murnane , 1985 single work short story ; Looking Forward to the Harvest Cherry Wilder , 1991 single work short story ; Inhabiting the Interspaces Philippa Maddern , 1979 single work short story ; Pie Row Joe Kevin McKay , 1978 single work short story ; The Caress Greg Egan , 1990 single work short story ; The Fittest George Turner , 1985 single work short story ; A Map of the Mines of Barnath Sean Williams , 1995 single work short story ; On the Turn Leanne Frahm , 1986 single work short story ; The Bone Ship Terry Dowling , 2003 single work short story ; Angel Thing Petrina Smith , 1995 single work short story ; Not with Love Philippa Maddern , 1995 single work short story ; A Man and His Dreams Marele Day , 1996 single work short story ; Wooden Bride Margo Lanagan , 2004 single work short story ; The Dove Game Isobelle Carmody , 2003 single work short story ; White Time Margo Lanagan , 2003 single work short story ; The Gloaming Lucy Sussex , 2000 single work short story ; Number 3 Raw Place Deborah Biancotti , 2004 single work short story ; Singing My Sister Down Margo Lanagan , 2004 single work short story ; The Grinding House Kaaron Warren , 2005 selected work short story novella ; Basic Black Terry Dowling , 1978 single work short story ; One Thing About the Night Terry Dowling , 2005 single work short story ; Fresh Young Widow Kaaron Warren , 2005 single work short story ; Bones Rjurik Davidson , 2004 single work short story ; Re-Deem the Time David J. Lake , 1978 single work short story
May in September : Australian Literature as Anglophone Alternative Nicholas Birns , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 112-132) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 112-132)
Nicholas Birns considers that attractions of Australian literary studies for overseas scholars. In the second part of his essay, Birns offers close readings of several of Gerald Murnane's short stories to argue that paying 'heed to Australian writing can vividly and unpredictably renovate 'English' as a discipline' (128).
y separately published work icon Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165381 1993 single work criticism
On Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , 1986 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 45 no. 4 1986; (p. 518-529)
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