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Alternative title:
The ERA Era : Creative Writing as Research
Issue Details:
First known date:
2010...
no.
7
October
2010
of
TEXT Special Issue
est. 2000
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* Contents derived from the 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Creative Writing in the ERA Era : A New Research Exercise,
single work
criticism
'In 2009 the Australian government, through the Australian Research Council (ARC), changed the way it assesses research quality in Australian universities. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative introduced new processes for the recognition, collection and evaluation of research, which included—for the first time—assessment of creative works as research. For many in the Creative and Performing Arts areas of Australian tertiary education, this signalled the achievement of a set of goals laid down in 1998 with the Strand Report (Strand 1998). The recognition of creative production as research had been, moreover, a project in various Australian university creative departments for at least a decade prior to Strand, going back as far as the rationales supporting the first research doctorates in the creative arts in the 1980s.' (p. 1)
- First Loves (from a work-in-progress), extract autobiography
- Plenitudei"It is the 4th of April, 2008, and I am thinking of pigeons", single work poetry
- The Execution of the Dinosaursi"We might as well we thought— it was only an afternoon’s work—", single work poetry
- A Hospital Bed at Home (from a work-in-progress), extract autobiography
- The Archivisti"Paris ...", single work poetry
- The Architecture of Song, extract novel
- In Forster (Sand up the Coast)i"Pelicans still", single work poetry
- An Extract from Lucia’s Story, extract biography
- Strange Dance Days, single work short story
- Glitter (from a work-in-progerss), extract autobiography
- Majorca : Unreal Estate, single work short story
- Climate Change – Excerpt from ‘Vanishing Point’, extract novel
- Philip Roth at 11.00ami"Philip Roth is correcting proofs", single work poetry
- Mix-Ups (from a work-in-progress), single work prose
- Underbelly, single work prose
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Thinking about Icarus,
single work
prose
'Icarus has long been a trope in literary and visual art. This work adds to the long history of the Icarus tale, and attempts to investigate its relevance for the 21st century. Particularly, it attempts to use the story of Icarus and his father Daedalus to think through relationships of intimacy: between people and the planet, between husbands and wives, and between suicide bombers and their mentors, in an effort to explore the ethical conundrums of cohabitation.' (Author's abstract)
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