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Better Half-Dead than Read? The 'Mezzomorto' Cases and Their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s
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1999
Better Half-Dead than Read? The 'Mezzomorto' Cases and Their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s
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Focuses on two libel cases arising from Brian Penton's review of Mezzomorto, viewing them as points of entry into Australian literary politics in the 1930s, and discusses the literary feud between P.R. Stephensen and Brian Penton.
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Better Half-Dead than Read? The 'Mezzomorto' Cases and Their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s
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- Mezzomorto 1934 single work novel
- Through Muddle to 'Half Death' 1934 single work review
- 1930
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