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University of Wollongong

2013

Love

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Discoursing Love: The Writer And X A Fictional Response To Roland Barthes, Catherine Mckinnon Jan 2013

Discoursing Love: The Writer And X A Fictional Response To Roland Barthes, Catherine Mckinnon

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Discoursing Love —The Writer and X’ offers a series of microfictions written in response to Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1990 [1978]). In A Lover’s Discourse Barthes seeks to ‘stage an utterance not an analysis ... amorously confronting the other (the loved object), who does not speak’ (3). Likewise I have written short pieces—outbursts, ripostes, manoeuvres—each less than seven hundred words and connected by meditations on love as experienced by a writer towards her lover. Questions include: How does love confront us? Can the emotional complexity of love, and of the loved Other, find voice in language? I have …


Learning To Love Rejection, Brian Martin Jan 2013

Learning To Love Rejection, Brian Martin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In my career, I've published a great many articles and books. What most of my colleagues don't know is that I've had lots of rejections too - hundreds of them.

Rejections are a dirty secret among academics. Publication successes are cause for celebration, or at least a proud listing on CVs and departmental lists. Failures - rejected papers and unsuccessful grant and promotion applications - are usually hidden and sometimes a source of shame. The result is that many scholars, especially junior ones, have unrealistic expectations. For this reason Donald Hall, in his book The Academic Self, recommends that experienced …


Four Short Films Made With Love: 'Nothing As It Seems', David Blackall Jan 2013

Four Short Films Made With Love: 'Nothing As It Seems', David Blackall

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Screened for the duration of November, 2013, at the Drawing Room - Art Gallery,

33 Roslyn Street, Sydney, Australia

2011 0421 162 447

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NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS – David Blackall A film made from 4 short stories on love

1] It's all been blackened out, but never mind

2] Karaoke Jane

3] The War Diaries of Stephen Dupont

4] The late David Larwill - ROAR painter - speaking at Newcastle City Gallery 2002.