TY - BOOK ID - 146035396 TI - Adelaide : a literary city AU - Butterss, Philip AU - University of Adelaide Press PY - 2013 PB - Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, DB - UniCat KW - Australian literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Adelaide (S.A.) KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146035396 AB - From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today's flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about - sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city's cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself. ER -