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Carolyne Lee Carolyne Lee i(A21939 works by)
Born: Established: 1953
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Wales (UK),
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die : A Memoir of My Husband Carolyne Lee , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2021 22948052 2021 single work autobiography

'At 45, Bill Johnson, faced with chronic illness and the loss of everything important to him, decided to die, seemingly in stark contradiction to how he’d lived his life. Since his devastating accident at 13, he’d fought for decades against disability and prejudice to achieve a fulfilling and successful life. As his wife, Carolyne Lee witnessed his final conundrum, and was persuaded to support him as he died by euthanasia. This is the story of Bill’s death and his life, much of which the author discovered afterwards, in seeking to understand his fearless final decision.

‘Somehow I must tell of that day … It is, after all, the initiating event of his story. It caused everything that followed: the bad, first, which endured for a long time. But also the good. This event set up the defining paradox of his life. To fight endlessly for a satisfying quality of life, but once that quality was gone, to face death with more than bravery; to embrace it.’

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1 Wendt, Jana Carolyne Lee , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : W 2014; (p. 490-491)
1 Buttrose, Ita (1942-) Carolyne Lee , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : B 2014; (p. 80)
1 A Rare Brand of Intimacy : Reconsidering the Structure and Unique Effect of the Short Story Carolyne Lee , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 13 no. 2 2009; 'In this paper I argue that the short story is a unique fictional form, with its own specific conventions, knowledge of which could usefully inform the teaching of short story writing. There has been very little attempt to explain how a short story means (as opposed to what it means) and it is only by articulating and analyzing specific short story conventions that we can move towards such an explanation. The main 'convention', I argue, concerns the reader's response to the short story: a response that occurs in a context of brief intensity and heightened involvement (due to the aesthetics of brevity), with the story acquired and retained whole' in the reader's memory. This in turn encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities inscribed in the narrative. I have termed this appropriation the 'narratorial presence' of the short story, and I argue that it is the enabling effect of the tale's telling. It occurs in different ways in different stories, predominantly in response to the mix of specific devices used to render different narrative perspectives. Performing analyses of Joyce's 'The dead' and Hemingway's 'The killers', and also briefly examining what I see as a Hemingway-esque Australian short story, 'Tap' by Garry Disher, I demonstrate how each story's structure 'manages' all other aspects of the narrative, facilitating the effect of 'narratorial presence'. A recognition of this effect could, I suggest, renew discussion of, or perhaps even initiate the construction of a new framework for the teaching of short story writing.'
1 Woman of the End Times Carolyne Lee , 2004 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 16 no. 1 2004;
1 Dream Poem 2 i "A grave atop a headland", Carolyne Lee , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Divan , December no. 4 2001;
1 Dream Poem 1: Erato's Story i "I'm here. With you.", Carolyne Lee , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Divan , December no. 4 2001;
1 Signs of the New Millennium i "At the shopping centre", Carolyne Lee , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Divan , August no. 1 1998;
1 Writing on Writing Carolyne Lee , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 July 1988; (p. 11)
— Review of Dear Writer Carmel Bird , 1988 single work criticism
1 Dinner Dance Carolyne Lee , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: The Man Who Played Spoons and Other Stories 1987; (p. 111-117)
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