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Robert Macfarlane (International) assertion Robert Macfarlane i(A41502 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 Nottinghamshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon From the City into Trees Robert Macfarlane , Tony Jupiter , Monica Oppen (illustrator), Stanmore : Ant Press , 2015 9394000 2015 single work picture book

The seventh part of Monica Oppen's Botanikos project, From the City into Trees comprises images and graphics by Oppen, along with text extracts from Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places (2007) and Tony Jupiter's What has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees (2013). This work and the related work Night-Walker, were influenced by a hand drawn creation created by Oppen at art school in 1989.
1 y separately published work icon Night-Walker Monica Oppen (illustrator), Robert Macfarlane , Stanmore : Ant Press , 2015 9392962 2015 single work picture book

This work is the sixth part of the Oppen's Botanikos project. Designed and illustrated (some illustrations coloured) by Oppen, the text extracts are from The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2007). Night-Walker and From the City into Trees were influenced by a hand drawn creation Oppen did while at art school in 1989.
1 Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake Robert Macfarlane , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 335-348) My Life as a Fake, despite the fact that it presents a departure in terms of setting and theme, still feels familiar, not least because, as Robert Macfarlane explains, there is a good deal of "epistemological blurriness" in the novel regarding notions of authorship and originality. In this respect, Macfarlane argues, "My Life as a Fake represents the climax of a conceit with which Carey has long been fascinated: that lies, hoaxes, and fakes are, at their most successful, deeply creative forms of expression." My Life as a Feake, the critic points out, thus not only sums up some of Carey's writerly preoccupations. Its literary-philosphical thesis - that "under careful scrutiny the apparent opposition between 'making' and 'faking' collapses into nea-identity, that fakery of some sort is a normative and necessary condition of literary creation, and that repetition is the first making and plagiarism the unoriginal sin" - is also at the heart of a "mini-tradition of recent anglophone fiction".' (Introduction to Fabulating Beauty xxxiii)
1 Dangerous Inventions : Peter Carey's Charismatic Con-artists Robert Macfarlane , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 12 September no. 5241 2003; (p. 23-24)
— Review of My Life as a Fake Peter Carey , 2003 single work novel
1 The Thing Called Love Robert Macfarlane , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 8 September no. 5084 2000; (p. 21)
— Review of The Red Thread Nicholas Jose , 2000 single work novel
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