Poetics
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Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought, a volume in the Performance Philosophy Series (Rowman and Littlefield International: London and New York, 2022), forthcoming March 2022.
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From Here to Tierra del Fuego, a volume in the Trans-national Cultural Studies Series, (Champaign (Ill.): University of Illinois Press, 2000).
Scholarly Books
Refereed Journal Articles:
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“Considerations on the Immediacy of Poetic Thought,” Text: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 26:1 (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.33916
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“On Originality in Poetic Diction and the Linguistics of 'Native-like' Speech,” College Literature, forthcoming 2022 (accepted 8 September 2021).
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“From the Margins a Silent Tick: On the Traces of Performative Judgement in Literary Works,” in Philosophy and Literature, 45:2 (2021), pp.329-347.
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“Romantic Notions of Creativity Now,” in Poetry Now, Special Issue 64 of Text: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, edited J. Wilkinson, C. Atherton & S. Holland Batt (2021) DOI 10.52086/001c.30988
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Paul Magee and Owen Bullock, “Do You Really Have to Know the Rules to Break Them? On Teaching Creative Writing to Injured Servicepeople,” Westerly 66:1 (2021), pp.135-148.
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“The Links between Creative Writing and Traumatic Thought,” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (19 Mar. 2021) DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2021.1891259
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“Alternative Futures for the Creative Writing Doctorate (by Way of the Past),” in Text: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 24:1 (April 2020) https://www.textjournal.com.au/april20/magee.pdf
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‘Writing as Discovery: Investigating a Hidden Component of Scholarly Method’ in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 21:3 (2019), pp.297-320.
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Paul Magee, Elena Isayev and Aref Sayed, ““The Sky Is Hidden”: On the Opening up of Language and National Borders” in GeoHumanities: Space, Place and the Humanities 5:1 (2019): 295-311. DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2019.1586560
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‘Where Does Poetry Take Place? On Tensions in the Concept of a National Art’ in Journal of International Comparative Literature 2:1 (2019), 75-93.
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‘How Do We Read Finnegans Wake in Silence?’ in James Joyce Quarterly 54:3-4 (2018), pp.115-134.
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‘How Can Each Word be Irreplaceable? Is Coleridge’s Claim Absurd?’ in Philosophy and Literature 41:2 (October 2017), pp. 400-415.
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‘We Do Not Know Exactly What We are Going to Say until We Have Said It”: Interview Data on How Poems are Made’ in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 13:3 (2016) DOI 10.1080/14790726.2016.1203955
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‘Poetry and Risk: On the Similarities between Recital and Composition’ in Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 19:2 (October 2015), at http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct15/magee.htm
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‘What Distinguishes Scholarship from Art?’ in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 11:3 (2014), pp.400-416.
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‘Poetry as Extorreor Monolothe: Finnegans Wake on Bakhtin’ in Cordite Scholarly, Cordite 41 (February 2013), at http://cordite.org.au/scholarly/poetry-as-extorreor-monolothe/
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‘The Scholarly Affair is Self-love’ in Out of the Ruins: The University to Come, special issue of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 28 (Fall 2012), pp.171-79.
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‘Beyond Accountability: Introduction pt.1’, co-editor’s introduction to Beyond Practice-led Research, special issue no.14 of Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses (October 2012), edited by P. Magee and S. Brook, at http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue14/Magee%20(Intro%201).pdf
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‘Poetry as a Physics of Power’ in Focus on Science, special issue of Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture 31: 2 (2009 ([published 2012]), pp.173-191.
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‘Poetic Fact: On Research Questions as Relations of Force’ in Between Poetry and Philosophy, special issue of Mosaic: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 45:1 (2012), pp. 121-36.
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‘“His Face Bore a Striking Resemblance to My Father’s”: On the Poet’s Internal Critic’ in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 8:2 (2011), pp.114-131
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‘Is Poetry Research?,’ in Text, The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 13:2 (October 2009), at http://textjournal.com.au/oct09/magee.html
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‘Suddenness: On Rapid Knowledge,’ in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 5:3 (2008), pp. 179-95. DOI 10.1080/14790720802245314
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‘Do we Really Need to Work More Creatively?’ in Arena Journal 28 (2007), pp.133-155.
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‘John Howard’s Body’ in Cultural Studies Review 13:2 (Sept 2007), pp.77-97.
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‘Who Speaks in Schbreber: The Ego and its Role in the Psychotic Text,’ in Writing the Symptom: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne 23 (August 2007), pp.79-98.
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‘The Nullarbor actually has trees in it,’ in Rethinking Marxism 19:1 (2007), pp. 134-7.
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‘Strange directions in future research’ Text, The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, 10:2 (October 2006).
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‘Foreign cookbooks: Editor’s introduction to Postcolonial Food,’ in Postcolonial Studies, 8:1 (August 2005), pp.3-18.
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‘Nudism, multi-personality disorder and the hi-rise novel,’ in Text, The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs 9:1 (April 2005).
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‘Kierkegaard II – The Sequel,’ in Cultural Studies Review 10: 2 (Sept 2004), pp. 114-131.
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‘The Single Greatest Cause of Domestic House Fires: On the Hole in Hegel’s Aesthetics’ in New Writing, The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 1: 0 (2004), pp. 55-67.
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‘When the Sheep had Wings’ in Postcolonial Studies 2:3 (1999), pp. 331-43.
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‘Lacan’s Twist on Peirce’s Dial’ in Analysis 8 (1998), pp. 59-71.
Non-refereed articles in a scholarly or professional journal:
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Paul Magee and Paul Collis, ‘Non-return and Non-arrival in Aboriginal Australia,’ Response to Elena Isayev, 'Ancient Wandering and Permanent Temporariness," in Humanities 10: 91 (2022), forthcoming.
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‘Elif Sezen’s “Dear Immigrants” and “The Turkish Bath”’ in Cordite Poetry Review, No.57: Confession (February 2017), http://cordite.org.au/essays/sezen-magee/
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“‘Something You’ve Already Done in the Sleep of Your Life”: The Relation between Poetry Writing and Acting,' in Writing in Education 68 (Spring 2016), pp.68-72.
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‘Flag waving on the beach,’ in Meanjin 70:1 (Autumn 2011), pp.12-14.
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‘Opening conference address by Paul Magee, CSAA President’, in Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22:6 (December 2008), pp.747-9.
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‘Editor’s introduction to The UNAUSTRALIA Papers’ in Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21: 4 (December 2007), pp.461-8
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‘Introduction to the UNAUSTRALIA conference’, Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21: 4 (December 2007), pp.471-5.
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‘Introduction to Professor Jacques Rancière,’ Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21: 4 (December 2007), pp.557-8
.Major reviews:
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‘Human Canvas’, a Review Essay on Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Vol. XXIV, Ed. Linda Clifton (London: Karnac, 2012), in Australian Humanities Review 57 (November 2014), at http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November-2014/magee.html
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‘The Magic of the State’, a Review Essay of Michael Taussig’s The Magic of the State (New York: Routledge, 1997), in UTS Review Cultural Studies and New Writing 3:2 (Nov. 1997), pp. 193-207.
Edited volume of conference proceedings, and/or journal special issue:
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Beyond Practice-led Research, special issue 14 of Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, co-edited with Scott Brook (October 2012), at http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue14/content.htm
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The UNAUSTRALIA Papers, special issue of Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21:4 (December 2007)
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Postcolonial Food, special issue of Postcolonial Studies 8:1 (August 2005).
...and other scholarly works
Journal Articles
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Magee, Paul and Williams, C.K., “Interview’ Salmagundi 190/191 (Spring-Summer 2016), pp.86-105.
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Wright, C.D., ‘An interview with C.D. Wright by Paul Magee’, The American Poetry Review 44 (6), December 2015 at https://aprweb.org/poems/an-interview-with-c-d-wright-by-paul-magee
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Magee, Paul, ‘Interview with Samuel Wagan Watson,’ Australian Poetry Journal 5 (1), July 2015, at http://apj.australianpoetry.org/issues/apj-5-1/essay-interview-with-sam-wagan-watson-by-paul-magee/
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Magee, Paul and Gander, Forrest ‘Paul Magee interviews Forrest Gander’ in Cordite Poetry Review 47 (August 2014) at http://cordite.org.au/interviews/magee-gander/
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Magee, Paul and Polain, Marcella ‘Marcella Polain Interview’ in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, 8:15 (August 2009), pp. 36-44.
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Kevin Brophy and Paul Magee, ‘We slowly arrive safely: Poetry at home and away’ in Text, The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 14:1 (April 2010), at http://www.textjournal.com.au/april10/brophy_magee.htm
Interviews
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Writing as Discovery: Investigating a Hidden Component of Scholarly Method, a cross-disciplinary symposium with Lucy Neave, Alison Booth, Saskia Beudel, Will Christie, Peter Doherty, Ross Gibson and Yvonne Paterson, 2018
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Your Brain on Writing, a podcast series with Inger Mewburn, 2022-
Podcasts