Whoever has made a search on the Internet and has not sufficiently focussed the points of interest, often has been over-whelmed by the enormous number of resulting references. The reader may well be shaking the ungendered head on reading the title of this essay. We could start with the literature to be found in a … Continue reading Medicine and Literature
Category: Literature
Australian Science Fiction! Yes, there is such a creature. Let us admit that in the world science fiction scene it is no more than a footnote. But it is ours. I am asked if there is a distinctively Australian character to these writings. I do not think so. Writers' ap-proach and concerns are individual but … Continue reading Australian Science Fiction (Part 1)
We have welcomed our copy of Fellows of the Book, and congratulate everyone who worked to produce it. We have a personal connection with one of the essays. In writing of "Two Books For All Seasons" Jon Prance tells of Clare Leighton's Four Hedges, and asks what became of the house and garden in later … Continue reading Some Memories of Four Hedges
The following notes have been inspired by Brian Taylor’s call to arms–or was it a call to fall on one’s sword--in the issue of Biblionews (vol. 28, no. 1 (Mar. 2003)) about Jeff Bidgood’s comments on style. Style is both that battered old hat we like to wear at the bottom of the garden as … Continue reading COLLECTING THE FESTSCHRIFTS.