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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... vol. 32 no. 1 Autumn 2009 of Commonwealth est. 1974 Commonwealth
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Notes

  • Issue title: Essays and Trials
  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
An Essay on B. S. Johnson : Brian Castro's Drift, Marilyne Brun , single work criticism
'The main character of Brian Castro's fifth novel, Drift (1994), is a fictional double of British experimental novelist Bryan Stanley Johnson (1933-1973). The latter's presence in the novel, visible through Castro's exploration of Johnson's literary ideas, poses the question of the novel's relation to the essay. Drift can be regarded as a reflection on B. S. Johnson's literary ideas and on Tasmanian Aborigines by way of B. S. Johnson.' (34)
(p. 34-44)
J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year : Between Essay Writing and Fiction, Richard Samin , single work criticism
'Diary of a Bad Year is a hybrid book combining a series of genuine essays with fictional narratives written in the form of a diary and confessional memoirs. With the combination of these different discursive strands and narrative voices on the same page Coetzee tries to experiment with a new pattern of reading. The unusual form of the novel distorts the reader's conventional perspective on plot and characters while it sustains the narrator's reflections about the questions of identity and authority involved in the very act of writing. The questions which the article addresses are whether the introduction of topical essays in Coetzee's book merely serves to provide a substantial thematic background to the fictional strands of the novel or whether the textual composition of the novel constitutes a experimental essay to probe into such questions as narratorial authority, the ethics fo writing and the identity fo the writing self.' (45)
(p. 45-53)
Untitled, Graham Huggan , single work review
— Review of Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire 2007 anthology criticism ;
(p. 122-123)

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