Social structure
Articles
- Getting a Head: Dismembering and Remembering in Robert Drewe’s The Savage Crows
The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…
1 May 2003 - Wishing for Modernity: Temporality and Desire in Gould’s Book of Fish
Shipway’s article examines Flanagan’s representation of Tasmanian versions of history and modernity in Gould’s Book of Fish. As one of the recurring tropes in…
1 May 2003 - Reading Institutional Women: A Nexus Approach to Bourdieu, Summer Heights High, and the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley
The essay uses Bourdieu’s theories to show the ways in which some key female characters in institutions in Lilley’s Summer Heights High and Jolley’s fiction…
1 October 2009 - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab as Spatial Artefact: Exploring Class and the Spatial Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Australia’s Favourite Whodunnit
Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has long been celebrated for its portrayal of the spaces and places of late-nineteenth century Melbourne. In…
19 December 2024