A Home in Fiction
A Home in Fiction – Geraldine Brooks
Boyer Lectures 2011: ‘The Idea of Home’
Audience:
Immediate audience were those listening to the Boyer Lectures
Lectures broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National on Sydney afternoons
The audience is intelligent and well-informed audience with an interest in the areas of science, books, religion, social history, the arts and current affairs.
Brookes’ lecture: those who are lovers of fiction and those who seek to be familiar with recent intellectual/ academic ideas.
Purpose of lectures is to nurture the intellectual and cultural life of this country, and to be a vital element of the contemporary Australian conversation
Structure:
Effective link to mathematician, ends with a reference of Henry James, reassuring the power words
Context:
Discovery of how words are power and the key to knowledge
Literature was written a long time ago has influenced people in different ways throughout different periods of time
The power of literature stood the test of time and still influenced generations after generations.
Julia Gillard was Prime Minister feminist, hence build female protagonist
Personal context as her being a writer, relevant to audience on educations
Purpose:
To convey how mathematics is like poetry
Explore the role of fiction writers in contributing to society
Reflects her life in journalism and as a fiction writer, the role of facts in fiction
The craft of the creative writing process
Key Ideas:
Examines the complexity of English words and all the hidden depths of meaning they can contain
Fiction has its origins in fact and it has power and value on our society
The power and value of fiction, power of knowledge to uncover realities
An author, like a mathematician, is searching for truth, which is quest-like
Like Atwood and Lessing, she talks about the power of language as a vehicle for exploring social issues and timeless human concerns of equality.
Universal idea of learning
Significance of literature in answering
Boyer Lectures 2011: ‘The Idea of Home’
Audience:
Immediate audience were those listening to the Boyer Lectures
Lectures broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National on Sydney afternoons
The audience is intelligent and well-informed audience with an interest in the areas of science, books, religion, social history, the arts and current affairs.
Brookes’ lecture: those who are lovers of fiction and those who seek to be familiar with recent intellectual/ academic ideas.
Purpose of lectures is to nurture the intellectual and cultural life of this country, and to be a vital element of the contemporary Australian conversation
Structure:
Effective link to mathematician, ends with a reference of Henry James, reassuring the power words
Context:
Discovery of how words are power and the key to knowledge
Literature was written a long time ago has influenced people in different ways throughout different periods of time
The power of literature stood the test of time and still influenced generations after generations.
Julia Gillard was Prime Minister feminist, hence build female protagonist
Personal context as her being a writer, relevant to audience on educations
Purpose:
To convey how mathematics is like poetry
Explore the role of fiction writers in contributing to society
Reflects her life in journalism and as a fiction writer, the role of facts in fiction
The craft of the creative writing process
Key Ideas:
Examines the complexity of English words and all the hidden depths of meaning they can contain
Fiction has its origins in fact and it has power and value on our society
The power and value of fiction, power of knowledge to uncover realities
An author, like a mathematician, is searching for truth, which is quest-like
Like Atwood and Lessing, she talks about the power of language as a vehicle for exploring social issues and timeless human concerns of equality.
Universal idea of learning
Significance of literature in answering