Small Press Publishing in Australia: The early 1970's
Author: Michael Denholm
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
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Paper Empires, 1946-2005
Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0702242152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation " ... It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book ... or would like to discover to discover something of the complexity of the well-springs of the Australian psyche." Biblionews Paper Empires explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates.
Paper Empires
Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 1458782689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume in UQP's History of the Book in Australia series explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day. In the immediate postwar era, most books were imported into a colonial market dominated by British publishers. Paper Empires traces this fascinating and volatile half-century, using wide-ranging resea...
Making Books
Author: David Carter
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780702234699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE INVOLVED OR INTERESTED IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRYA wide-ranging study of contemporary publishing in Australia, specifically focusing on the period from 1990 onwards, and looking towards the future. The Australian publishing industry turns over almost 2 billion dollars a year. This collection of essays analyses the structure and dynamics of the industry in the context of social, cultural and legal forces. Making Bookspresents a sophisticated introduction to the structure and dynamics of the contemporary publishing industry. Chapters focus on topics such as-the structure of the Australian publishing industrythe culture of the publishing houseeditorial practice and policypublishing and cultural policythe 'decline' of literary publishingBookscanthe impact of new technologies on the industryand much, much more.
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
Author: Peter Pierce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-17
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 052188165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.
Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes
Author: A. J. Carruthers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1399526855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvant-garde poetry in the Antipodes causes all sorts of trouble for literary history. It is an avant-garde that seems to arrive too late and yet right on time. In 1897, Christopher Brennan made his own version of Un Coup de Des, the same year Mallarme published it in Cosmopolis. In the 1940s, the same period avant-gardism was declared dead or fatally injured due to the Ern Malley affair, Harry Hooton began writing a significant body of experimental poetry. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Australian Dada emerged 'belatedly' through figures like Jas H. Duke (Tristan Tzara had previously sung Aboriginal songs at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916). First Nations and Migrant poets then began reinventing avant-garde poetry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book maintains that such a confounding literary history poses a distinct challenge to the theories of the avant-gardes we have become accustomed to and changes our perspective of avant-garde time.
People, Print & Paper
Author: Michael Richards
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0642104514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe National Library's major public contribution to the Australian Bicentenary was the travelling exhibition, People, Print & Paper. Celebrating two hundred years of Australian books, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue bring together a collection of books which gives a fascinating insight into an aspect of Australian life and character which is often overlooked.
Small Press Record of Books in Print
Author: Len Fulton
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 1088
ISBN-13:
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Author: Phillip Edmonds
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1925261050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUp until the late 1960s the story of Australian literary magazines was one of continuing struggle against the odds, and of the efforts of individuals, such as Clem Christesen, Stephen Murray-Smith, and Max Harris. During that time, the magazines played the role of 'enfant terrible', creating a space where unpopular opinions and writers were allowed a voice. The magazines have very often been ahead of their time and some of the agendas they have pursued have become 'central' to representations, where once they were marginal. Broadly, 'little' magazines have often been more influential than their small circulations would first indicate, and the author's argument is that they have played a valuable role in the promotion of Australian literature.
Reading by Numbers
Author: Katherine Bode
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0857284541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.
