'Dead dogs, stones and dust': the Fall from an Urban pastoral in Brennan's Curriculum Vitae

Authors

  • Justin Lucas The University of New South Wales

Keywords:

Christpher Brennan, poetry, autobiography

Abstract

The paper reads Christopher Brennan's Curriculum Vitaeas an autobiography which does not act as a personal myth of becoming--instead it narrates and situates Brennan's loss of language, self and his poetic silence.

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Published

2013-02-12

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1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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’Dead dogs, stones and dust’: the Fall from an Urban pastoral in Brennan’s Curriculum Vitae. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 88-93. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9512