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From:Australian Literary StudiesPeer-ReviewedAn Australian novelist and poet describes her efforts to deal with suburban violence and the problem of evil through fiction and poetry. Life in the suburbs is often thought of as dull, but this is a misconception....
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From:Scottish Literary Review (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Angels, dancers, mermaids: the hidden history of Peckham in Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Abstract What led Muriel Spark, who is generally regarded as an author alive to the imaginative possibilities of milieu, to set The Ballad of Beckham Rye in a drab south London suburb? This essay examines Spark's... -
From:Antipodes (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWHAT IS THE PARTICULAR NATURE OF THE FRUSTRATION one feels upon reading the ending of Gerald Murnane's second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds (1976).' While critics have at times considered this text one of the author's...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPATRICK WHITE HAS USUALLY BEEN SEEN AS A FEROCIOUS critic of Australian suburban life. (1) But criticism can be creative, and I would argue that White's attack is part of a spiritual rather than a social condition. Nor...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn a much-commented-upon 20 September 2010 op-ed in The New York Times, David Brooks criticized Jonathan Franzen s new novel, Freedom for remaining trapped in the American literary "orthodoxy that suburban life is...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe theme of neoconservatism is a recurring theme in Australian literature. The suburbs are portrayed as microcosms of transition between old capitalistic traditions and modern interpretations. These include the rising...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy work takes me to Cairo's slums, the shantytowns where the bulk of the city's population of around twenty million lives. These so called "informal quarters" were built in the last twenty to thirty years without...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHE TYPOGRAPHICAL. SPECIFICITY THAT DISTINGUISHES the title of Todd Haynes's 1995 film [Safe] betrays the film's interest in questions of security, shelter, and well-being but also of interiority and identity. [Safe] is...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUse of suburban life in Australian literature has translated everyday experience into theoretic concept. Themes of identity, consumption and rationalization create an organized narrative, which in turn creates desires...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPatrick White and the American writer John Cheever have a number of things in common: both are satirical modernist writers; both struggled with forms of depression, surreptitiously linked in their fiction to the suburbs...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJohn Cheever's brutal portrayal of the everyman living in suburbia ,'The Swimmer,' owes much in subject and structure to Dante's 'Inferno.' Both open in either the midpoint of life or its allegorical equivalent. Cheever...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCliches concerning suburban life are more damaging to social construction in Australia than the suburbs themselves. Contrary to popular perception and depiction in literature, suburbia has been supplanted by...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 55)When I was a child, the priests at my local parish in suburban Ohio exhorted us to embrace the childlike faith of, well, children, and if we did that, God would bless us with His grace, our bodies would be bathed in a...
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From:Soundings (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedIn many ways the essence of 'Englishness' is encapsulated in traditional understandings of what constitutes 'suburbia'. But these twin concepts, evoking landscapes frozen in time, have little to do with twenty-first...
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From:The Atlantic (Vol. 289, Issue 1)..... If you fly over Scottsdale, Arizona, and look down at the vast brown desert, here and there you see little ribbons of green fairways, with country-club communities clustered around them like reeds around ponds-...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe futility and violence of suburban life is a common theme in Australian literature. The mental imprisonment of industrialist capitalism is cited as the primary cause of strife, with contempt for self transferred onto...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRegarding the pain of others [...] our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind. --Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others THE NOVELS OF ELLIOT PERLMAN ENCOMPASS A...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere's been too much criticism of the middle-class way of life. Life can be as good and rich there as anyplace else. I am not out to be a social critic, however, nor a defender of suburbia. It goes without saying that...
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From:The ESSE Messenger (Vol. 30, Issue 2)The city is a frequent setting in various novels written in the last century and an important entity, almost a character in its own right, in many of them. This paper investigates the modes and techniques of narration in...
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From:The Worcester Review (Vol. 38, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhen I was a suburban housewife in the 1970s, before everything changed so drastically, you could play with your kids and still smoke cigarettes. You didn't want your kids to smoke, but back then, we believed in the old...