Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering

The Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2015, Melbourne AUS

ISBN 978-0-9807573-9-2 (copyright 2015)

Editorial Introduction: Eugen Bacon, Dominique Hecq and Amelia Walker

Section 1: Critical Papers

  • Hasti Abbasi Narinabad – Dislocation and the idea of happiness in An Imaginary Life and Women Without Men, and its embodiment in The Borders
  • Josie Arnold – A narrative conversation with Azar Nafisi arising from The Republic of Imagination
  • Athina Bakirtzidis Singh – Rewriting Truth in Memoir
  • Joshua Barnes – David Foster Wallace, comedian: towards an aesthetics of funniness
  • Craig Batty, Sung-Ju Suya Lee, Louise Sawtell, Stephen Sculley and Stayci Taylor – Rewriting, remaking and rediscovering screenwriting practice: when the screenwriter becomes practitioner-researcher
  • Zana Bell – Biding with ghosts; listening to silences
  • Lauren Briggs – Colonial Ghosts: The Use of Non-Australian Western Literature in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction.
  • Lianne Broadbent – ‘Photographs furnish evidence’: retrieving silenced women’s stories through the haunting of imagery
  • Sherryl Clark – Fascinated or haunted? Why we continue to write and rewrite fairy tales
  • Danielle Clode and Christele Maizonniaux – Terres Australes: Rewriting Australia’s French history (with the help of Jules Verne)
  • Shady Cosgrove and Joshua Lobb – Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy
  • Jennifer Crawford – ‘The foreigner lives within’: rereading Ming Cher’s rewritten Spider Boys
  • Rebecca Croser – Chronotopic hybridity in the contemporary campus novel: The Secret History
  • Mitch Cunningham – Performing the ‘Fiction-Writer’s Reader’: David Foster Wallace and the ‘reader’ of ‘Octet’
  • Kerrie Davies – Revisiting Bertha Lawson, Henry Lawson’s Wife
  • Anna Denejkina – Autoethnography and the journalist: an ethical comparison
  • Matilda Douglas-Henry – ‘The man who knows his limitations has none’: the homoeroticism in Infinite Jest
  • Natalie Rose Dyer – Ghostly red ink: Hélène Cixous’ voice of milk and blood
  • Caren Florance – Retinal persistence: Performing the text
  • Rachel Franks and Monica Galassi – A war of words: reading conflict in the writings of Miles Franklin
  • Lynda Hawryluk – The weight of rain: making meaning of mourning through poetry
  • Paul Hetherington and Paul Munden – Poetry Reloaded: revision as practice and art
  • Suzanne Hermanoczki – A graphic journey: The Arrival home for Shaun Tan’s immigrant
  • Margaret Hickey – A return to the land
  • Christine A Hill – Playing with ghosts in the nursery
  • Eleanor Hogan – ‘Impossible, now, to read the Rosetta Stone’: cultural hybridity and loss in the Ernestine Hill Collection
  • Andy Jackson – Re-embodied poetics: recognising bodily difference in poetry
  • Luke Johnson – Reading through the mirror stage
  • Jeri Kroll – Bringing to life the ghost of the ideal work: hypotexts, hypertexts and re-crafting the creative writing doctoral thesis
  • Jonathan Laskovsky – Title: Spaces of Open Constraint in Infinite Jest
  • Kira Legaan – Remembering Trauma: The Ghosts of Self Adaptation
  • Eleanor Limprecht – Coercing the Archives: ethics and approach in historical fiction
  • Rose Lucas – Under the ice: the creative dialectic of poetry and the visual image
  • Gay Lynch – Towards Nailing Ghosts for Creative Purpose: the Suicide of Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Caitlin Maling – Collage and ecopoetry in Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses
  • Christopher Mallon – Life text: interpreting the ethereal images of Hannah Wilke
  • Diane Murray – The unreliable itinerary: the haunted and the haunting stories of historical biography
  • Esther Packard Hill – Governing femininity: sisters in literature and gender performativity
  • Natalie Pirotta – Re-making Anna Karenina: death, desire and Prussian Blue
  • Grazina Pranauskas – Contesting postwar Lithuanian refugee and Soviet Lithuanian identity in Australia (1940s-1990s)
  • Susan Pyke – Spawn of Wuthering Heights: the dreamy pleasures in adaptive reading and writing
  • Carolyn Rickett, Paul Race and Jill Gordon – Swimming in a sea of hypocrisy?: the ethical ambiguity of David Rieff’s memoir
  • Gabrielle Ryan – Singing from the shadows: historical fiction as fiction of ‘anti-progress’
  • Louise Sawtell – Re-crafting the screenplay: A fictocritical approach
  • Jessica Seymour – Holmes’s girls: genderbending and feminising the canon in Elementary
  • Nathan Smale – Cathartic crossovers: reader transaction theory and literature therapy
  • Ben Smith – The mirror and the mask: the simulacrum of memory and the self as text
  • Lisa Smithies – How does a writer’s brain do creative writing?
  • Rebecca Styles – Rangatira (2011) by Paula Morris: insider and outsider appropriation
  • Sandra Symons – The narrative power of photography: a ghost trail of memories
  • Stayci Taylor – Ghostbusting in screenwriting practice: rewriting the corrective culture of script development
  • Ariella Van Luyn – Treading Air: using historical fiction to explore women’s criminality and sexuality in the interwar period
  • Amelia Walker – Re-collecting the self as an o/Other: creative writing research matters
  • Katy Watson-Kell – Reimagining a Melbourne icon: Jules Lefebvre’s Chloe
  • Houman Zandizadeh – Siyavash-Khani: To Tell the Untold

Section 2: Creative Papers