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A short story set in a world where to be fat is to be counter-revolutionary and seen as greedy. Six fat men, ostracised from society, live together in one house and find some semblance of harmony. Hopeless, the only option to them seems to be to conform to society, until one of them suggests striking back at authority and the regime they live under.
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American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press
2010
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— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)
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On the Dual Subjects in Peter Carey's Short Fiction
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back and Forward : Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China 2004; (p. 475-487) - y Dancing on Hot Macadam : Peter Carey's Fiction St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z374069 1994 single work criticism
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First Flights...or Kangaroo Hops? The Early Work of Australian SF Writers
1989
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— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 2 (Issue 29) 1989; (p. 40-57) -
Science Fiction, Parafiction and Peter Carey
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 1 (Issue 28) 1988; (p. 15-21)
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First Flights...or Kangaroo Hops? The Early Work of Australian SF Writers
1989
single work
column
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 2 (Issue 29) 1989; (p. 40-57) -
American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)
-
On the Dual Subjects in Peter Carey's Short Fiction
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back and Forward : Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China 2004; (p. 475-487) -
Science Fiction, Parafiction and Peter Carey
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 1 (Issue 28) 1988; (p. 15-21) - y Dancing on Hot Macadam : Peter Carey's Fiction St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z374069 1994 single work criticism