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dc.contributor.authorBuckridge, Pat
dc.contributor.editorSusan Lever, Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziel
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:14:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:14:55Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-07-01T01:17:07Z
dc.identifier.issn14478986
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/29394
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the work of a largely forgotten literary intellectual, Alan D. Mickle (1883-1969). His career testifies to the possibility of living a long, active, varied and productive writing life entirely without institutional support, national recognition, or even much in the way of professional affirmation or encouragement beyond a very small circle of family and friends. In fifty years of writing, he produced a remarkable quantity, breadth and variety of literary work, including books of literary and philosophical essays, travel, autobiography, poetry, fiction, humour, fantasy, dramatic criticism, children's literature, sporting memoirs and political commentary: thirty separate volumes, none of them sufficiently popular, even at the time of publication, to earn the writer a living or even give him a profile in Australia. His writings often have a startling freshness and independence, but very singularity that makes him interesting also makes him unusually resistant to categorization in terms of group affiliations and clearly defined literary and intellectual traditions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNational Library of Australia
dc.publisher.placeCanberra
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal
dc.publisher.urihttp://show20results20www.nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/viewArticle/9.3
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto11
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL)
dc.relation.ispartofvolume9
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLiterary Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200502
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.titleThe Writer Alan D. Mickle: Serendipity, Vanity and Obscurity in an Australian Literary Career
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2009. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the author.
gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorBuckridge, Pat J.


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