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30/04/2013

Nita B Kibble Literary Award longlist

Stephanie Radok's An Opening: Twelve love stories about art has been longlisted for the Kibble Literary Award for best work by an established Australian women writer. The shortlist will be announced 5 June, winner announced 24 July.

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Order of Australia!

Congratulations, Jack Cross, who became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours List. The prestigious award recognises Jack's 'significant service to tertiary education in South Australia, particularly in the field of art and design, and to indigenous education'. Jack is author of Great Central State.

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Empowering Readers

Ten approaches to narrative

Garry Gillard

Empowering Readers is for senior secondary and undergraduate students of literature and their teachers. This very accessible book offers ten approaches to reading based on literary theories that have succeeded and competed with each other since the 1950s.

Empowering Readers has the double appeal of giving an overview of theoretical and critical schools from New Criticism to Postmodernism as well as a fresh, insightful reading of important texts which are on a large number of reading lists, from Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, via Laclos' Dangerous Liaisons and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Tim Winton's An Open Swimmer.