https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Small publishers and the emerging network of Australian literary prosumption https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30075 Tue 10 Sep 2024 12:47:32 AEST ]]> How nice is too nice? Australian book reviews and the 'compliment sandwich' https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29477 Kill Your Darlings in 2010 and has continued in other literary publications. It takes up Ben Etherington's claim that 'too nice' reviewing is characterised by the 'compliment sandwich' in which critique is surrounded by mollifying praise. It offers a 'distant reading' of two years of fiction reviews in the Australian Book Review, applying a manual appraisal analysis to demonstrate that book reviews in Australia's flagship reviewing publication do often adhere to the compliment-sandwich form. The article then returns to the question of 'too nice' reviewing, and applies a modified Bourdieusian analysis to examine how reviewing debates have served as proxies for larger disputes between institutions and interlocutors in the literary field.]]> Tue 10 Sep 2024 12:40:45 AEST ]]> Introduction: The Art of the Real https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6966 Thu 16 Aug 2018 10:19:58 AEST ]]> The perfect electrometer: Dorothy Wordsworth's lover's discourse https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:7377 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:40:13 AEDT ]]> Cultures of complaint: protest and redress in the age of #Metoo https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35515 Mon 09 Sep 2024 19:45:41 AEST ]]>