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Recovering history through fact and fiction: Forgotten lives
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been largely neglected by history or forgotten over time
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature
Introduction: [Cake: a cookbook in a day]
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645Introduction to 'Cake: A Cookbook in a Day' book
Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645Offshoot includes essays in life writing methodologies and approaches, as well as a series of creative work – poetry and prose – that engages with current life writing. This collection highlights the development and influence of the genre in the twenty-first century.
Starting from the premise that life writing is a significant component of both contemporary artistic practice and scholarship, Offshoot provides a necessary re-evaluation of the mode, its contemporary sub-generic incarnations, as well as methodological and practical approaches. The book presents research on a wide range of approaches, including both traditional areas such as literature and creative writing and areas that have not previously been associated with life writing scholarship.
With its multifaceted readings, Offshoot signals a shift in life writing research tending towards an expansive, hybrid, experimental, and rhizomic approach
Making stories of our own ends: two Australian memoirs of dying
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645An increasing number of end-of-life memoirs have been published over the past two decades. A number of these by American and British authors have received considerable notice and acclaim. There are, however, also a number of book-length published memoirs written by Australian narrators whose texts narrate their own dying. Despite achieving a measure of popularity with readers, few of these Australian works have been explored in detail or categorised as a discrete sub-set of the autobiographical memoir in Australia. This article discusses two Australian memoirs, 'Dying: A Memoir' by Donald Horne and Myfanwy Horne (2007) and 'Dying: A Memoir' by Cory Taylor (2016). Examining these texts contributes to understanding of both this revealing autobiographical practice and practices of writing and publishing popular memoir in Australia more generally. They also add to knowledge of the way individuals face, and deal with, the prospect of their own impending ends
Eating Shakespeare: exploring the Bardic culinary literature industry
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645Although William Shakespeare penned no known cookery books, dietaries or other works of culinary interest, a significant body of Shakespearean-themed popular food writing has been produced and is in circulation. Exploring these works in the context of the so-called ‘Shakespeare industry’, this article proposes that such an enquiry, when focused through the lens of creative writing studies sensibility (especially in terms of publication studies) and a food studies approach can provide information and analysis of value to both areas of scholarship. Texts produced in English since 1935 are considered, and brief literary/professional biographies are provided for a number of writers whose work has received little attention in these fields
Bringing a taste of abroad to Australian readers: Australian Wines & Food Quarterly 1956-1960
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645The study of Australian food and wine publications is an emerging area of investigation in Food Studies, Magazine/Serial Studies and Creative Writing. Yet, these publications were part of the emergent post-war Australian gastronomic environment in which national tastes in domestic cookery became radically internationalised and cosmopolitan, and multicultural eating habits widely embraced. This article will survey a number of ways in which the idea of ‘abroad’ is expressed in an early Australian culinary publication, Australian Wines & Food Quarterly (1956–1960). Produced in Melbourne—but with at least a nod to a national remit—this publication assisted in introducing readers to a wide range of new information about what were then seen as foreign “gourmet” foods and wines, as well as a range of innovative international ideas regarding cookery and dining that are nowadays accepted as everyday practice in Australia
Death and contemporary gothic studies
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645; Mcallister, MM ORCiD: 0000-0003-1181-1610The idea of ‘death’ offers a rich vein of material for Gothic scholars to mine. Of all the eerie and foreboding experiences in this world, it is perhaps the thought of Death that most simultaneously attracts and repels. For death is the great inevitability for us all and yet none of us knows, or can know, it fully. This issue of Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies is the result of discussions between its editors and the journal’s founding editor, Dr. Lorna Piatti- Farnell, at the inaugural Australasian Death Studies Network conference in Noosa, Australia, in 201
Examining doctorates in the creative arts: A guide
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645A guide for examiners of doctoral degrees in the creative arts. Includes an examiners' checklist, expectations of standards for creative arts doctorates, recommendations for the examination of creative arts doctorates, types of creative arts doctorate available in Australia, and a select bibliography
Writing death and the gothic
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645This special issue of TEXT brings together a series of articles on the topic of ‘Writing death and the Gothic’, many of which have been developed from papers presented at the inaugural Australasian Death Studies Network conference, which was held in Noosa, Queensland, in October 2015
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