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Issue Details:
First known date:
2005...
22-23 January
2005
of
The Australian
est. 1964
The Weekend Australian
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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Book Titles, single work column (p. 2) Section: Review
- The Face : Garth Nix : Fantasy Author, single work biography (p. 3) Section: Review
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The Fiction of Friction
How to Fuck a Tuscan Garden : A Note on Literary Pessimism,
single work
criticism
(p. 8-9) Section: ReviewMcCann responds to suggestions that 'Australian fiction is struggling, sales are woeful' and the attendant 'demoralisation' of writers. McCann claims that writers are unwilling to alienate readers and therefore produce a homogenous national literature 'incapable of questioning its institutional or ideological functions.' Given this scenario, McCann says that an 'avant-garde' style seems impossible. 'In the meantime, complaints about the mediocre state of Australian literature are like hungry rumblings from the belly of the beast - the structures constantly calling out for innovative Australian writing are the very structures that impede its development.'Note: With title: The Fiction of Friction
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