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"This paper, first delivered at the AAWP Conference 'Lighting the Fuse' in Adelaide 1998, is in roughly three parts. The first is a necessarily roundabout approach to what I mean by "The Ghost": it is not Creative Writing as such, but it inhabits and animates it. The second involves a definition of "The Machine" which, likewise, is not the academic system of my subtitle, but relates to it. The third part of my paper focuses on the subtitle itself: Creative Writing and the Academic System."--Author's abstract
"Mass media influence has determined that producing and marketing children's properties is now a complex mixture of commerce and culture." The author, using the theories of Joseph Turow and Lewis Coser, looks at what influences the marketing and production of children's books with reference to the Australian industry.