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Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus and the Question of Value
Considering literature’s value is a difficult task in that it asks one to quantify an aesthetic form that by its very nature thwarts measurement. This…
30 October 2023
Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
The fifty years spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century saw literary studies established as an…
30 October 2023
'Tipping the Scales': Introduction to Australian Literary Studies Literary Value Special Issue
30 October 2023
Simon During, Crisis Talk and the Legacies of the 1980s
What is the place of literary studies in the history of its own decline In this paper, I will explore three issues: (1) the idioms…
30 October 2023
A Decade of Complaints
This paper presents the Sydney Review of Books, which I edited, as a case study in the intersecting conflicts about value in contemporary Australian…
30 October 2023