Adelaide : : a literary city / / edited by Philip Butterss.

From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today's flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes...

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Place / Publishing House:Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Open Access e-Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Table of Contents:
  • Adelaide as literary city : introduction / Philip Butterss
  • Acts of writing / Kerryn Goldsworthy
  • Colonial wordsmith: George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860-1870 / Anne Black
  • Scots and Scottish literature in literary Adelaide / Graham Tulloch
  • 'An entertaining young genious' : C.J. Dennis and Adelaide / Philip Butterss
  • Adelaide around 1935 : stories of herself when young / Susan Sheridan
  • Adelaide and the country : the literary dimension / Jill Roe
  • 'Fearful affinity': Jindyworobak primitivism / Peter Kirkpatrick
  • The Athens of the south / Alison Broinowski
  • Max Harris : a phenomenal Adelaide literary figure / Betty Snowden
  • Geoffrey Dutton : little Adelaide and New York Nowhere / Nicholas Jose
  • New York nowhere : meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital / Geoffrey Dutton
  • Coffee with Ken : Ken Bolton's Adelaide / Jill Jones
  • 'A dozy city' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the night girl / Gillian Dooley.