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  • ‘Literary Adaptation and Market Value: Encounters with the Public in the Early Career of Roger McDonald.’

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    Lee, Chris
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    Lee, Chris J.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Roger McDonald's first two novels offer an interesting case study of an emerging Australian writer in the later part of the twentieth century. Tensions arise in an era of global exchange and post-colonial legacy from the different demands of culture as responsibility and culture as entertainment. Local subsidisation presents as a variety of investments in a readership that is imagined as both a market and a public. The internationalisation of that readership is characterised by considerations that challenge critical understanding and creative imagination. 'For whom does one write?' is an increasingly complex question for ...
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    Roger McDonald's first two novels offer an interesting case study of an emerging Australian writer in the later part of the twentieth century. Tensions arise in an era of global exchange and post-colonial legacy from the different demands of culture as responsibility and culture as entertainment. Local subsidisation presents as a variety of investments in a readership that is imagined as both a market and a public. The internationalisation of that readership is characterised by considerations that challenge critical understanding and creative imagination. 'For whom does one write?' is an increasingly complex question for Australian writers interested in readers and a reputation.
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    Journal Title
    Queensland Review
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.6
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
    Subject
    Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
    Historical Studies
    Other History and Archaeology
    History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/65985
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