Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith
Monash University Publishing, $29.95 pb, 425 pp, 9781925495669
Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith edited by Rex Butler and Sheridan Palmer
The editors begin their introduction to Antipodean Perspective with some ground clearing: ‘The putting together of a series of responses to an important scholar’s work is a classic academic exercise. It is undoubtedly a worthy, but also necessarily a selective undertaking. In German it is called a Festschrift …’ The Festschrift continues to be, in academic circles especially, a way of honouring the work, contribution, influence, and originality of this or that scholar or, sometimes, of a university librarian or outstanding teacher.
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