AustLit logo
Lies and Tin single work   poetry   ""Give him something to do.""
  • Author:agent Dorothy Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Lies and Tin
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

All Publication Details

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Akhenaten Dorothy Porter , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z248289 1992 single work novel (taught in 6 units)

    'Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history – archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive cult of personality.

    'Like Albert Camus celebrated Caligula, Dorothy Porter's Akhenaten is an attractive warped megalomaniac who attempted to construct an heretical religion around one Sun God, with himself at the centre.

    'Akhenaten is a novel in verse that captures the obsessive, erotic nature of its central figure. It is a towering achievement.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Picador ed.)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992
    pg. 116-117
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing : An Anthology Robert Dessaix (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z546278 1993 anthology short story poetry extract correspondence Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 pg. 179-180
X