By Associate Professor Paul Alan Dawson

Books

Dawson P, 2023, The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215470.html

Dawson P, 2013, The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-first Century Fiction, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?books/book%20pages/Dawson%20Return.html

Dawson PA, 2005, Creative Writing and the New Humanities, Routledge Press, London

Book Chapters

Dawson P, 2024, 'Bad Press: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Public Discourse', in Björninen S; Meyer P; Mäkelä M; Zetterberg-Nielsen H (ed.), Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality: A Rhetorical Approach to Storytelling in Contemporary Western Culture, Peter Lang, Berlin, pp. 27 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b21221

Dawson P, 2023, 'The Anxiety of Authorship: Novelists as Narrators', in Gibbons A; King E (ed.), Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 179 - 197, https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496234612/#:~:text=Bringing%20together%20the%20perspectives%20of,are%20necessary%20to%20capture%20the

Dawson P, 2022, 'The Undead Novel: A History of Realism or a History of Prose Fiction?', in Dawson P; Mäkelä M (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Routledge, New York, pp. 221 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003100157-21

Dawson P, 2022, 'What is 'The Narrative'?: Conspiracy Theories and Journalistic Emplotment in the Age of Social Media', in Dawson P; Mäkelä M (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Routledge, New York, pp. 71 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003100157-8

Dawson P; Mäkelä M, 2022, 'INTRODUCTION: Narrative Today: Telling Stories in a Post- Truth World', in The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003100157-1

Dawson PA, 2017, 'How Many 'Turns' Does it Take to Change a Discipline? Narratology and the Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of the Narrative Turn', in Hansen PK; Pier J; Roussin P; Schmid W (ed.), Emerging Vectors of Narratology, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 405 - 434

Dawson P, 2014, 'The future of creative writing', in The Handbook of Creative Writing: Second Edition, pp. 78 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748689774-010

Dawson PA, 2007, 'The Future of Creative Writing', in Earnshaw S (ed.), The Handbook of Creative Writing, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 78 - 90

Dawson PA, 2006, 'Writers, Critics and Literary Authority', in Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice, Post Pressed, Teneriffe, pp. 21 - 31

Edited Books

Dawson P; Mäkelä M, (ed.), 2022, The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Routledge, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003100157

Journal articles

Dawson P, 2024, 'Who controls ‘the narrative’? journalistic emplotment and political discourse in the networked public sphere', Journalism: theory, practice and criticism, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14648849241231682

Dawson P, 2024, 'Creativity — Narrativity — Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy', Partial Answers, 22, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pan.2024.a916697

Dawson P, 2020, 'Hashtag narrative: Emergent storytelling and affective publics in the digital age', International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23, pp. 968 - 983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877920921417

Dawson P; Mäkelä M, 2020, 'The Story Logic of Social Media: Co-construction and Emergent Narrative Authority', Style (DeKalb), 54, pp. 21 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/style.54.1.0021

Dawson P, 2019, 'Fictional Minds and Female Sexuality: The Consciousness Scene from Pamela to Lady Chatterley's Lover', ELH: English Literary History, 86, pp. 161 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2019.0006

Dawson PA, 2018, 'Narrativizing Novel Studies, Historicizing Narrative Theory', Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 39, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4265035

Dawson P, 2018, 'Rhetorical poetics: Between creative writing and deconstruction', Style, 52, pp. 66 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sty.2018.0009

Dawson P, 2017, 'Delving into the narratological "toolbox": Concepts and categories in narrative theory', Style, 51, pp. 228 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sty.2017.0016

Dawson PA, 2017, 'Delving into the Narratological "Toolbox": Concepts and Categories in Narrative Theory', Style (DeKalb), 51, pp. 228 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/style.51.2.0228

Dawson P, 2016, 'From digressions to intrusions: Authorial commentary in the novel', Studies in the Novel, 48, pp. 145 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2016.0025

Dawson P, 2015, 'The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction', ENTHYMEMA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE, pp. 45 - 63, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000376884300004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Dawson P; Pennacchio F, 2015, 'The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction', ENTHYMEMA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE, pp. 37 - 44, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000376884300003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Dawson PA, 2015, 'Ten Theses Against Fictionality', Narrative, 23, pp. 74 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2015.0006

Dawson PA, 2013, 'Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or Diversification? (A Response).', Enthymema, pp. 109 - 114, http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/3533

Dawson PA, 2013, 'Style, the Narrating Instance, and the 'Trace' of Writing', Style (DeKalb), 47, pp. 466 - 489

Dawson P, 2012, 'Real Authors and Real Readers: Omniscient Narration and a Discursive Approach to the Narrative Communication Model', Journal of Narrative Theory, 42, pp. 91 - 116

Dawson P, 2009, 'State of Play: Australian Poetry and Poetics Now', Five Bells, 15 & 16, pp. 30 - 39

Dawson PA, 2009, 'The Return of Omniscience in Contemporary Fiction', Narrative, 17, pp. 143 - 161

Dawson PA, 2008, 'Creative Writing and Postmodern Interdisciplinarity', Text: Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/april03/dawson.htm, 12, pp. online, http://www.textjournal.com.au/april08/dawson.htm

Dawson PA, 2008, 'Historicising `Craft` in the Teaching of Fiction', New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 5, pp. 211 - 224

Dawson PA, 2003, 'Review of `Skinned by Light` by Anthony Lawrence', Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Vol., pp. 72 - 73

Dawson PA, 2003, 'Towards a New Poetics in Creative Writing Pedagogy', Text : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 7, pp. 1 - 20, http://www.textjournal.com.au/april03/dawson.htm

Dawson PA, 2003, 'What is a Literary Intellectual? Creative Writing and the New Humanities', Cultural Studies Review, Vol., pp. 161 - 179

Dawson PA, 2002, 'A Place for the Space Between: Fictocriticism and the University', Westerly, 47, pp. 139 - 151

Dawson PA, 2002, 'Review of The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray', Text: Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/april03/dawson.htm, 6

Dawson PA, 2002, 'Untitled letter to the Editor', Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, 1, pp. 8 - 10

Creative Written Works

Dawson P, 2024, Bio-diversity Note, Cordite Poetry Review, Dearborn T; MacCarter K, (ed.), Cordite Publishing Inc., http://cordite.org.au/poetry/treat/bio-diversity-note/

Dawson P, 2024, Inflections, StylusLit, Licari RE, (ed.), https://styluslit.com/poetry/inflections/

Dawson P, 2023, Submittable, MacCarter K; Patterson L; Garcia-Dolnik L, (eds.), Cordite Publishing Inc., http://cordite.org.au/poetry/dedication/submittable/

Dawson P, 2022, Triptych, Meanjin, Green J; Lea B, (ed.), Melbourne University Publishing, https://meanjin.com.au/poetry/triptych/

Dawson P, 2021, Thanks for the Poems, Covid-19, Mascara Literary Review, Young A; Nair M, (ed.), https://www.mascarareview.com/paul-dawson/

Dawson P, 2020, #auspol, Cordite Poetry Review, Groth S; Breeze M, (ed.), Cordite Publishing Inc., http://cordite.org.au/poetry/propaganda/auspol/

Dawson P, 2020, Songbirds after the Lyric, Stilts Journal, O'Grady E; Jeffery E, (ed.), Stilts Journal, https://www.stiltsjournal.com/single-post/2020/04/28/Songbirds-after-the-Lyric

Dawson P, 2019, Name = Compatibility Mode, Westerly, Atherton C; Noske C, (ed.), CENT STUDIES AUSTRALIAN LIT, https://westerlymag.com.au/digital-archive/

Dawson P, 2019, Contemplating Dumplings, Peril Magazine, Gill M, (ed.), Peril Magazine Inc., https://peril.com.au/back-editions/edition-39/contemplating-dumplings/

Dawson P, 2019, #Emergence, Meanjin, Lea B; Green J, (ed.), Melbourne University Publishing, https://meanjin.com.au/poetry/emergence/

Dawson P, 2018, Lover Nature, Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World, Gibson P; Brits B, (ed.), Punctum Books, https://www.amazon.com/Covert-Plants-Vegetal-Consciousness-Anthropocentric/dp/1947447696

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