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Alternative title:
Creative Writing as Research IV
Issue Details:
First known date:
2015...
no.
30
October
2015
of
TEXT Special Issue
est. 2000
TEXT : Special Issue Website Series
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
– Three physical conceits by Gail Pittaway : Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), Hamilton, New Zealand
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Introduction : Creative Writing as Research IV, single work criticism
- We Were Young, single work short story
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The (Im)perfect Screenplay : A Parody of Craft and Industry,
single work
drama
'Drawing on the author’s twelve years of teaching, researching and writing about screenwriting craft, this work draws attention to formulaic conventions and the industry in which they operate in the form of a parody of an episode of a hypothetical low-budget Australian soap opera. It is structured as a soap opera typically would be, with an episode containing parallel and tonally different storylines set in the context of a day, but deliberately exploits craft and convention to the extreme. In the vein of Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques, a television sitcom that parodied 1980s British soap operas, The (Im)Perfect Screenplay: A Parody of Craft and Industry seeks more critically to reveal the hidden (to many) craft techniques of screenwriting by creating an explicit awareness of how they operate within a well-known genre and format. By doing so, the work offers simultaneously a perfect and an imperfect screenplay. It contributes to the field of screenwriting in the academy through the performative potential of the screenplay as a research artefact.' (Publication abstract)
- All She Could See, single work short story
- So Much Tongue, single work prose
- Women, Birth, Life and Death : From the Fictionalised Diary of Mary Dean, extract diary
- Mutitjulu Diary : Notes from February/March 1996, single work diary
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Snap,
single work
short story
Research background
'Butler (1990) theorises that some writers explore sexuality as reiteration and performance. But how to write the erotic encounter between reciprocal readers whose bodies are caught in the lag of longing at the onset of death? Can dream and masquerade be enlisted to the task? The second-person address can be manipulative, associated as it is with the didactic. While it is kept in reflexive play in some high-modernist metafiction (Calvino 1979), and Wittig (1973) deploys the metamorphic potential of the lesbian I-you, how might the second person enable intimacy and reflexivity at once? '
- Dumpster Diving : A Family Excursion (The Researching Parent/parenting Researcher), single work autobiography
- Pressed Specimens, single work prose
- City Ghosts, single work short story
- Leonard’s Gambit, single work prose
- Harlequin Blue; or, A Place like Paris and a New Brain Map, single work prose
- By the Fingernails, single work short story
- Birth, single work short story
- Ghazali"I woke to a fine sifting in the air outside my tent", single work poetry
- The Carillon, single work short story
- The Speculative Fiction Umbrella, single work short story
- Little Snatches : Becoming-girl, Becoming-woman through the Touching Glass, single work prose
- What You Don’t Know, extract prose
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Introduction : Creative Writing as Research IV
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 30 2015;
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Introduction : Creative Writing as Research IV
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 30 2015;
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