Great Western Highway: a love story.

Macris, A

Great Western Highway: a love story.

Macris, A

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Publisher:: University of Western Australia Publishing
Citation:: (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), 2012, 1st, pp. 1 - 355
Issue Date:: 2012-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	(Capital, Volume One, Part Two), 2012, 1st, pp. 1 - 355	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781742584157	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33121
dc.description.abstract	Novel	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Western Australia Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	(Capital, Volume One, Part Two)	en_US
dc.title	Great Western Highway: a love story.	en_US
utslib.location	Western Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	1st	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.edition	1st	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Western Australia	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Research background The research is in the field of creative writing. Don DeLillo has demonstrated that creative writers can use a stylistics of postmodern fragmentation to show readers what it feels like to live in a hyperreal commodified culture. Lucien Dallenbach’s concept of the “mirror in the text” draws attention to the way in which, when traditional framing devices are shattered, the distance between self and representation vanishes. Claude Simon’s foregrounding of objects in his writing emphasises the commodified nature of contemporary capitalism. The research question of this novel is: How can the structures of creative writing embody the valorisation of image capital? Research contribution The novel finds two ways to embody the valorisation of image capital. 1. The use of recurring motifs to embody the repetition of commodities across a variety of cultural moments 2. Employing the narrative structures of complex transmedia cultural consumption to structure the story of the novel Research significance The novel was published by UWAP and funded in part by grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. It was highly commended in the NSW Writers' Fellowship 2000. Chapters have been translated and published internationally. Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee says: “Great Western Highway offers a striking record of what life is like then the barriers between public and private space are everywhere giving way.” The Sydney Morning Herald writes: “Great Western Highway is … virtuosic. … [It] takes the ambitious step of trying to position love in the stifling dust storm of capitalism”.	en_US

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