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An overview of the Australian Literature and Public Culture (ALPC) research project at Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, and the contents of the TEXT Special Issue No.4.
In this paper the author reads Peter Carey's fictitious character Robert McCorkle 'as a phantom addressing what Carey sees as crimes committed against literature in the Australian public sphere.'
Frank Moorhouse discusses the author's visual layout of a short story as 'a way of navigating the reader.' Moorhouse refers to Best Australian Stories 2004 in this essay.
'...[This] paper explores the mechanisms by which the Australian publishing subsidiary of an international conglomerate, with its profit imperatives and consequent adoption of risk-averse publishing strategies, created a bestselling book from the unlikely source of a second-generation literary memoir.' - The author.