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Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

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Literary Communities: Writers' Practices And Networks, Catherine Cole, Anitra Nelson Jan 2010

Literary Communities: Writers' Practices And Networks, Catherine Cole, Anitra Nelson

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper discusses a new direction for research on creative writing: exploring the formative contexts within which writers develop, receive recognition and are celebrated, our approach centres on literary networks and activities that characterize well-recognised literary communities. By studying the UNESCO Cities of Literature network, our research aims to identify and analyse key formative experiences for contemporary creative writers, although in this paper we simply refer to one of those cities — Melbourne. We hypothesize that the notion of a ‘community of practice’ has potential to be a constructive way to interrogate writers’ practices within literary communities to inform arts …


Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies To Support Creative Writing About Real Spaces, Joshua M. Lobb Jan 2010

Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies To Support Creative Writing About Real Spaces, Joshua M. Lobb

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper investigates the ways in which literary studies and critical theory can be used to provide writers with productive creative models for representing ‘real spaces’: that is, the incorporation of real locations within a creative work. Many new creative writing students begin with the premise ‘write what you know’, but often overlook the implications of including the names of real places in their work—whether it be Paris, Paddington Station or Prahran. The paper argues that the examination of existing creative work allows writers to understand the practical and the political ramifications of this activity. The paper will outline the …


Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson Jan 2010

Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson

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Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray Jan 2010

Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

CollectionWeb is a development platform for Web-based social media sites that distribute, display, annotate and management digital collection content. CollectionWeb is based on an approach that generates semantic navigation interfaces that induces pages from collection metadata using Formal Concept Analysis.