Pushing against the dark [sound recording] : writing about the hidden self : the 2011 Seymour Biography lecture presented by Robert Dessaix at the National Library of Australia on 24 October 2011
- Bib ID:
- 5739907
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dessaix, Robert, 1944-, speaker
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digital collection item.
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- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 1 sound file (ca. 60 min.)
- Series:
- Seymour Biography lecture.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Robert Dessaix discusses identity; the projection of self; social invisibility; human needs and desires; social media exposure; his first book 'A Mother's Disgrace'; the hidden aspects of personality; the role of stories and biographies; Post-Modernism; art versus reality; the convergence of literary forms; the fictive elements in memoir; narrative forms; Australianness; encouraging readers; artistic treatment; literary theory; biography; autobiography; fact-versus-metaphor; readers being excited by the interplay between fact and fiction; nonentities-versus-celebrities; authors techniques; creating intimacy; biography as bringing hidden things, hidden selves into the light; "pushing against the dark", writing as an act of resistance, seeking to preserve the lived moment.
- Notes:
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- The Seymour Lecture in Biography commenced in 2005. The lecture has been generously endowed by Dr John Seymour and Mrs Heather Seymour, AO.
- Recorded on 24 October 2011 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.
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- Timed summary (4 p.)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- National Library of Australia
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- 2011
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