Claire Corbett – The Conversation

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August 22, 2022

Luke Carman, the circle of life, and the world as an ecstatic masterpiece

Claire Corbett, University of Technology Sydney

In his third book, An Ordinary Ecstasy, Luke Carman conducts an immersive conversation with literature and life.

Why don’t chimpanzees rule the world? Is storytelling - the mysterious glue that enables millions of humans to cooperate effectively - the answer? Shutterstock

April 7, 2022

Friday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling

Claire Corbett, University of Technology Sydney

The unique power of story is like a sharp knife, writes Claire Corbett. It is neither good nor evil, but can cut both ways.

Many hands have helped author The Conversation’s first collaborative writing experiment.

January 5, 2015

An experiment in collaborative writing: day ten

Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle; Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia; Chris Rodley, University of Sydney; Claire Corbett, Western Sydney University; Donna Hancox, Queensland University of Technology; Jane Messer, Macquarie University; Julian Meyrick, Flinders University; Michelle Smith, Deakin University; Nike Sulway, University of Southern Queensland, and Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University

We’re starting 2015 with an experiment in collaborative creative writing. What happens when you ask ten academics to write a story together? Taking our cue from the Exquisite Cadaver game played by Surrealist…

What renders this work a classic, a book that every Australian should read? Palo

September 17, 2014

The case for The Commandant by Jessica Anderson

Claire Corbett, Western Sydney University

“We knew it in words, yet kept it secret,” says Frances, the young sister-in-law of Patrick Logan, the eponymous – and notoriously cruel – commandant of Moreton Bay penal colony in Jessica Anderson’s ground-breaking…

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