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Includes papers presented at the 34th Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Symposium, held at City Flinders Campus of Victoria University. Also includes a section of poetry presented at the Symposium. The poets whose works are represented are Peter Porter, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and New Zealander, Vincent O'Sullivan. (O'Sullivan's poems are not indexed.)
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* Contents derived from the Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,:The Australian Academy of the Humanities,2004 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Note: Author's note: ... a little piece of near-doggerel I wrote to exemplify the poet's revenge on his more accomplished colleagues. ('Who Owns the Words We Use?', Readers, Writers, Publishers : Essays and Poems, p.60)
Untitledi"As you know Regulus, men are pharisaical,",Peter Porter,
single work poetry
(p. 66)
McCalman explains the process he underwent to transform his historically accurate portrayal of the life of Count Cagliostro into a work that would be accessible to, and popular with, non-specialist readers. His technique was to borrow from the structures of literary fiction, thereby preserving 'the suspense and pace of the story without compromising [his] core beliefs about what a historian can truthfully say about the past.' McCalman acknowledges that his editor and some reviewers were left wondering whether he was writing history or fiction.