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Ross Chambers Ross Chambers i(A11888 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Toil and Trouble : On the Materiality of Time Ross Chambers , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 20 no. 1 2014; (p. 177-193) 'This article explores the nature of temporality, entropy and negentropy, drawing contemporary fiction by Graham Swift and Fiona McGregor as well as the autobiography of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, to ask questions about history, time and life.' (Publication abstract)
1 Untitled Ross Chambers , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 25 no. 1 2010; (p. 99-101)
— Review of Networked Language : Culture and History in Australian Poetry Philip Mead , 2008 single work criticism
1 'Isn't There a Poem about This, Mr de Mille?' : On Quotation, Camp and Colonial Distancing Ross Chambers , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 377-391)
1 Adventures in Malley Country : Concerning Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake Ross Chambers , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , March vol. 11 no. 1 2005; (p. 27-51) Reflecting on the relationship between life and art, the author compares My Life as a Fake with literary monster stories and literary hoaxes (such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Ern Malley affair). He argues that life-as-a-fake 'is constructed for us all by our culture' (p.49), and that Carey's novel constitutes a 'supplementaion' rather than a 'replacement' of life/reality.
1 y separately published work icon Facing It : AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author Ross Chambers , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1998 Z1413492 1998 selected work criticism Facing It examines the genre of the AIDS diary, not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. In this case, the interaction is between authors, whose subject is their own dying and death, and readers, for whom the act of reading becomes a form of mourning. Writing and reading are separated but also joined by the unthinkable, unsayable, unreadable event of death. That is, between them they enact a scenario of survival. Through a detailed study of three AIDS diaries, originating in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading are linked by a common concern with the problematics of survivorhood. Finally, Facing It takes on the issue of its own relevance, asking what literary criticism can do in an epidemic. (From Libraries Australia record.)
1 Great Enthusiasm Ross Chambers , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 26 January 1963; (p. 20)
— Review of The Prose of Christopher Brennan Christopher Brennan , 1962 collected work prose criticism
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