First Cake Method single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 First Cake Method
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.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'A mosaic of lyric fragments, ‘First Cake Method’ is a short piece of experimental memoir working within the lyric essay form to explore the complexity of a father/daughter relationship. Shifting between first and third person narrative, from the child narrator to adult, it sketches a story that is both personal and universal, exploring the human need for love and acceptance while hinting at the specifics of this family’s dysfunction. Relating moments of intimacy and distance, at different stages of life, cooking and food is the central motif for an exploration of the narrator’s determination to master the ‘recipe’ for connection. Thus the structure and content of the essay work to embody the complexity of familial relationships. The use of fragmentation and repetition also mimics memory’s tendency to ‘snapshots’, thematic grouping and revision.' (Abstract)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Writing vol. 14 no. 3 2017 11713345 2017 periodical issue

    'In order to function, your imagination employs an intensity of feeling. It can function only through such intensity because it needs to create, only from your memories, emotions, knowledge and perceptions, representations of activities and things that are not immediately present and not therefore accessible to your senses.

    'Your imagination’s intensity of feeling is empowered by your emotions. Emotions are widely shared human assessments, psychological and physiological reactions to events, people, experiences, the world, thoughts. Your feelings are how such emotions are individually described by you. Two people can have similar psychological and physiological reactions and one of them might describe the feeling as ‘love’ and the other person describe the feeling as ‘affection’. Because the imagination is key to creative writing, the place of feeling is heightened and your individual interpretation of emotions (yours and those of others) is therefore essential to creative writing.' (Editorial)

         2017     pg. 424-428
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()
Last amended 6 Sep 2017 14:52:38
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X