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Title: | 'He lacks almost all the qualities of the novelist': G.M. Glaskin and his Australian Contemporaries | Contributor(s): | Fisher, Jeremy (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9692 | Abstract: | Gerry Glaskin was quite a guy, and quite a writer. He had a prodigious output across a range of genres. He wrote nine novels, a number of dramatic works, children's fiction, science fiction, romance and short stories. He was not a writer parsimonious with words. Even at school, Glaskin was known for his long essays. In his memoir 'One way to Wonderland' (1984) he writes: 'How often, when telling us the subject of an essay we must write, did Mr Constantine [the English teacher] insist that we should fill at least two pages of the ruled foolscap paper we used. "But you, Glaskin," he would inevitably add, "must confine yourself to no more than ten!"'. Glaskin's writing owed much to his life's experiences. Even in fictional form, the majority of his works are closely modelled on events that happened to him. And, as we shall see, his was not an inconsequential life. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, Sydney, Australia, 13th - 14th January, 2011 | Source of Publication: | Presented at the Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia Symposium | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200502 Australian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) | HERDC Category Description: | E2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=32 |
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