Inexperience and Other Stories

Macris, A

Inexperience and Other Stories

Macris, A

Publisher:: University of Western Australia Publishing
Citation:: 2016, 1st, pp. 1 - 230
Issue Date:: 2016-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-20T06:05:46Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-20T06:05:46Z
dc.date.issued	2016-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2016, 1st, pp. 1 - 230	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781742588704	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/81275
dc.publisher	University of Western Australia Publishing	en_US
dc.title	Inexperience and Other Stories	en_US
utslib.location	Crawley WA	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	1st	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.edition	1st	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Crawley WA	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Inexperience & Other Stories is a fiction collection. Research background This research is in the field of 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing. Virginia Woolf used modernist literary techniques to slow down time in her writing to represent human perception. Although Don DeLillo was a postmodern story teller he retained modernism’s suspicion of traditional story. David Foster Wallace demonstrated that postmodern techniques such as flat (“two-dimensional”) characterization can be used in the service of traditional storytelling. The research question for this project is: can postmodern literature use modernist techniques of changing temporality while retaining a focus on traditional storytelling? Research contribution The collection showed that literary techniques that slow down time can serve traditional storytelling by retaining a focus on drama, interesting characters and intriguing narrative questions. This was achieved by pushing the “stretch/scene/summary” temporality spectrum toward the stretch/summary end of the continuum (which slow time down), while still using aspects of “summary” to move the story forwards. These alternations in rhythm create dramatic effects in their own right that enliven story-telling. Research significance The book, published by UWAP, was listed as a Book of the Year by Australian Book Review. Individual stories have won The Penguin Short Story Prize and been published in leading journals such as Antipodes (USA) and Southerly. Critics noted: “Macris is one of the most interesting writers of our time” (Sydney Morning Herald); “Alongside the astonishingly robust and coherent method … is a kind of sensation that moves beyond words” (Sydney Review of Books).	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Inexperience & Other Stories is a fiction collection. Research background This research is in the field of 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing. Virginia Woolf used modernist literary techniques to slow down time in her writing to represent human perception. Although Don DeLillo was a postmodern story teller he retained modernism’s suspicion of traditional story. David Foster Wallace demonstrated that postmodern techniques such as flat (“two-dimensional”) characterization can be used in the service of traditional storytelling. The research question for this project is: can postmodern literature use modernist techniques of changing temporality while retaining a focus on traditional storytelling? Research contribution The collection showed that literary techniques that slow down time can serve traditional storytelling by retaining a focus on drama, interesting characters and intriguing narrative questions. This was achieved by pushing the “stretch/scene/summary” temporality spectrum toward the stretch/summary end of the continuum (which slow time down), while still using aspects of “summary” to move the story forwards. These alternations in rhythm create dramatic effects in their own right that enliven story-telling. Research significance The book, published by UWAP, was listed as a Book of the Year by Australian Book Review. Individual stories have won The Penguin Short Story Prize and been published in leading journals such as Antipodes (USA) and Southerly. Critics noted: “Macris is one of the most interesting writers of our time” (Sydney Morning Herald); “Alongside the astonishingly robust and coherent method … is a kind of sensation that moves beyond words” (Sydney Review of Books).	en_US

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