All Articles tagged Essay
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October 31, 2024 AEST This paper charts a genealogy for the critical essay, which I define as a literary essay that includes analysis of an artwork amongst its objects of inquiry.
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October 31, 2019 AEST How might a writing form that includes both creative and academic work explore what sociologist John Law calls the ‘messiness’ of embodied knowledges (Law 2004)?
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October 30, 2019 AEST This paper explores the challenges facing settler writers who wish to respectfully acknowledge the sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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October 31, 2018 AEST Child adoption practices in twentieth century Australia were largely reliant on Christian agencies to facilitate the separation of child from mother and the subsequent re-homing of that child...
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April 29, 2018 AEST This essay moves between the performative, the discursive and the ethnographic to compose an argument about how essaying as method might contribute to new approaches to world-making.
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October 31, 2017 AEST In the process of writing my memoir about living with my adoptive parents, I have had to reconstruct their lives through the objects and things that they left behind...
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October 31, 2017 AEST This article proposes that Barthes’s ‘ambiguous genre’, the essay, may be one useful way of conceptualising the non-fiction creative doctorate.
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October 31, 2017 AEST The three contributors to this article believe that a symbiotic relationship between creative and critical aspects of a project function most effectively...
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October 31, 2017 AEST The author looks at the prose poem's generic predisposition toward comedy and suggests prose poetry has the ability to endlessly reinvent itself and combine elements of parables, fables, and aphorism.
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October 31, 2017 AEST This paper investigates the interplay between lyricopoetic and expository prose while bearing special attention to the specific historical and cultural circumstances of the birth of the Baudelairian prose poem.
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April 30, 2017 AEST This article performs the creative act of giving form to writing—whether that of an academic paper, poem or artwork.
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April 30, 2017 AEST Here I explore the academic essay as a forensic site, ‘an entry-point from which to reconstruct larger processes, events and social relations, conjunctions of actors and practices, structures and technologies’...
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April 30, 2017 AEST Despite the ascendancy of the lyric essay as a form over the past two decades, the essay, whether lyric or otherwise, is still pegged to the category of nonfiction...
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April 30, 2017 AEST The lyric essay often works associatively to create meaning through metaphor, analogy, and the juxtaposition of anecdotes, observations, or citations...
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April 30, 2017 AEST The lyric essay's protean form allows writers to evoke and explore aspects of personal memory and subjective experience with great immediacy, while also addressing more general and abstract ideas...
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April 30, 2017 AEST In this paper I identify two personal essay styles, the ‘subject position-oriented personal essay’ and the ‘dialectical personal essay’, to enlarge upon the conflict inherent to the personal essay...
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April 30, 2017 AEST This article focuses on the political implications of Malouf’s calm but opinionated approach to his essays, as well as on how Malouf sets out to persuade readers.
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April 30, 2017 AEST The essay’s capacity to narrate a situated and embodied experience that entwines poetics, politics and affect enables the form a particular methodology....
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April 30, 2017 AEST The essay in the tradition of Montaigne stages the inadequacies of attempts to grasp at objects and what connects us to them, them to us, and us to each other...
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April 30, 2017 AEST The Calibre Essay Prize has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Australian Book Review...
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April 30, 2017 AEST This paper takes a look back at the 50th issue of the Quarterly Essay, to discuss with its author her essay-writing process and the aftermath of publication.
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April 30, 2017 AEST Special Issue 39 on the essay was an invitation for writers, scholars, and creative practitioners to think through the implications of the essay as an evolving contemporary genre in Australasia.
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October 31, 2013 AEST This essay braids memoirist scenes and images from contemporary popular culture with vignettes from the early Spiritualist tendencies within the history of photography...
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October 31, 2013 AEST This essay was inspired by David Shield’s Reality hunger (2010)...
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October 31, 2013 AEST I had a tiger mom. She was Chinese but really a wah kiu, an ‘overseas Chinese’, meaning she no longer lived on the Mainland, inside the great wall....
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October 31, 2013 AEST This essay explores the tensions in the paradoxical location of ‘non-fiction’ — or the de-hyphenated ‘nonfiction’, as we prefer — as a literary/artistic category built upon a negation.
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October 30, 2012 AEST Here I aim to map the academic essay as it is practised for the most part ... but also as it might be practised.
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October 30, 2011 AEST This article examines issues related to moving NetGen student writers into the demanding and rapidly expanding creative nonfiction market.
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April 30, 2009 AEST There is a sense in which I must recognise that I am a book with pages torn out, a map worn threadbare by poor storage and neglect...
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April 30, 2009 AEST As I start to write this paper, my notes lie stretched out in a long poem of language shifts and comparisons: essay-as-wager, essay-as-puzzle, essay-as-notation, essay-as-conversation, essay-as-meditation...
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April 29, 2008 AEST Through the prism of contemporary political arguments around nationality, censorship and religion, this essay attempts an intervention into debates in which many of us feel we have been spoken for.
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October 30, 2007 AEST This project is an essay/comic book hybrid that analyses a number of common general perceptions and misunderstandings surrounding both the essay and the comic...