Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Stream System, Salient Image and Feeling : Between Barley Patch and Inland
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'In 1988, the year that saw publication of Inland, Gerald Murnane gave a talk to an audience at La Trobe University that was subsequently published as “Stream System”.² The talk opened with a seemingly factual account of its author’s morning walk from his nearby suburban home to the Bundoora campus:

'This morning, in order to reach the place where I am now, I went a little out of my way. I took the shortest route from my house to the place that you people probably know as SOUTH ENTRY. That is to say, I walked from the front gate of of my house due west and downhill to Salt Creek then uphill and still due west from Salt Creek to the watershed between Salt Creek and a nameless creek that runs into Darebin Creek. When I reached the high ground that drains into the nameless creek, I walked north-west until I was standing about thirty metres south-east of the place that is denoted on Page 66A of Edition 18 of the Melway Street Directory of Greater Melbourne by the words STREAM SYSTEM.' (Introduction)

Notes

  • Epigraph: At the level of the poetic image, the duality of subject and object is iridescent, shimmering, unceasingly active in its inversions

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    y separately published work icon Gerald Murnane : Another World in This One Anthony Uhlmann (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2020 18449887 2020 anthology criticism

    'Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.

    'Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2020
    pg. 63-84
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Subjects:
  • Inland Gerald Murnane , 1988 single work novel
  • Barley Patch Gerald Murnane , 2009 single work novel
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