Have Fun single work   review  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Have Fun
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

'I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’. Is it possible, I wonder, that the short story permits the author to play, to have fun, in a way that other forms do not? Do we tend to ignore this because the word ‘fun’ is difficult to fit into an aesthetic claim, because the concept itself seems to resist being aestheticised, its monosyllabic punchiness evoking childish play or adult condescension that dodges the analytical eye? It was just a bit of fun. Don’t you know how to have fun? This isn’t fun.'  (Introduction)   

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 12 Dec 2022 10:40:58
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/have-fun/ Have Funsmall AustLit logo Sydney Review of Books
Review of:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X