Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702217920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Story within a story. Dorothy Peabody is bored with her clerical work, and her role as her mother's carer. She begins to correspond with novelist Diana Hopewell, who sends extracts from her novel in progress. The novel concerns a headmistress travelling around Europe with several companions. As Miss Peabody becomes more involved with the tale, her life becomes inextricably tied with the fictitious events.
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702217920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Story within a story. Dorothy Peabody is bored with her clerical work, and her role as her mother's carer. She begins to correspond with novelist Diana Hopewell, who sends extracts from her novel in progress. The novel concerns a headmistress travelling around Europe with several companions. As Miss Peabody becomes more involved with the tale, her life becomes inextricably tied with the fictitious events.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702217920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Story within a story. Dorothy Peabody is bored with her clerical work, and her role as her mother's carer. She begins to correspond with novelist Diana Hopewell, who sends extracts from her novel in progress. The novel concerns a headmistress travelling around Europe with several companions. As Miss Peabody becomes more involved with the tale, her life becomes inextricably tied with the fictitious events.
Westerly
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Scripsi
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions
Author: Paul Salzman
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Study and discussion of the works of one of Australia's most critically acclaimed contemporary authors. Examines the critical reception of Jolley's fiction and the variety of interpretations it has received. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a senior lecturer in English at La Trobe University in Melbourne and is co-author of 'The New Diversity: Australian fiction 1970-1988'.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Study and discussion of the works of one of Australia's most critically acclaimed contemporary authors. Examines the critical reception of Jolley's fiction and the variety of interpretations it has received. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a senior lecturer in English at La Trobe University in Melbourne and is co-author of 'The New Diversity: Australian fiction 1970-1988'.
Liars
Author: Helen Daniel
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An exploration of Australian fiction as "the most beautiful lies" through the eyes of modern Australian authors : Peter Mathers - Pater Carey - Gerald Murnane - Elizabeth Jolley - Nicholas Hasluck - David Foster - Murray Bail - David Ireland.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An exploration of Australian fiction as "the most beautiful lies" through the eyes of modern Australian authors : Peter Mathers - Pater Carey - Gerald Murnane - Elizabeth Jolley - Nicholas Hasluck - David Foster - Murray Bail - David Ireland.
Rewriting God
Author: Elaine Lindsay
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender? Rewriting God asks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed. From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender? Rewriting God asks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed. From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point.
Womanspeak
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Overland
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Rooms of Their Own
Author: Jennifer Ellison
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Interviews with Australian women authors Blanche D'Alpuget, Thea Astley, Sara Dowse, Helen Garner, Olga Masters, Jessica Anderson, Jean Bedford, Beverley Farmer, Kate Grenville, Gabrielle Lord and Georgia Savage.__
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Interviews with Australian women authors Blanche D'Alpuget, Thea Astley, Sara Dowse, Helen Garner, Olga Masters, Jessica Anderson, Jean Bedford, Beverley Farmer, Kate Grenville, Gabrielle Lord and Georgia Savage.__
Foxybaby
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN: 9780892554058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN: 9780892554058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.