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Category "Culture"
“The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat”
As one of the performances during the Adelaide Fringe 2007 festival the TAFE Adelaide Centre for ARTS presented this theatre play by Peter Weiss, from 1964 and originally in German. Directed by the Adelaidian Paul Peers, the 3rd year graduating students staged a play within a play, which for me in times was hard to understand. [Read more »]
Posted: 31.03.2007, 0:45
Theme Australia, Culture.
Tags: Adelaide, Jean-Paul Marat, Theatre
Comments: none
Fences in Australia
Since my first visit to Australia, way back in 1992, I am struck by a question, which I find really puzzling: How can people in a country as “free” (and as large) as Australia create that large a variety of fences? Wherever ever you travel through this vast continent, whomever you visit – there’ll be fences all over … [Read more »]
Posted: 15.03.2007, 0:52
Theme Australia, Fences.
Tags: Australia, Fences
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Cultural Cringe
In social science studies the term “cultural cringe” is applied, when people in formerly mostly colonized countries see their cultural achievements as minor in value compared to other countries. Invented after WWII by the Melbourne intellectual A.A. Phillips, this concept received some attention amongst the Australian intellectual community. [Read more »]
Posted: 12.03.2007, 1:03
Theme Australia, Culture.
Tags: Australia, Cultural Cringe
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“drfslcns” and “diddle”
Sitting at a bus stop today in mid-day heat, I was wondering whether I should be cross with myself for waiting at the wrong bus station: The sun was shining full force right into the little bus shelter with three or four people there expecting the bus to show up any minute. Of course, being in Adelaide, this was pretty much a hopeless dream – the next bus was only due in at least 15 min. [Read more »]
Posted: 07.03.2007, 1:08
Theme Australia, Culture.
Tags: Adelaide, MetroBus
Comments: none
“horridge” – Family Talk and Slang Usage
This essay may seem to be a bit of a useless piece of writing … but interesting nonetheless. [Read more »]
Posted: 21.02.2007, 1:10
Theme Australia, Culture, Language.
Tags: child talk, horridge
Comments: none