{"title":"Revisiting the ‘Problem’ of Anthropomorphism through Ceridwen Dovey’s *Only the Animals* (2014)","authors":"C. Archer-Lean","doi":"10.20314/ALS.80AC7927CD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.80AC7927CD","url":null,"abstract":"In Ceridwen Dovey’s short story cycle, Only the Animals, inter-textual allusions to established fictional animals are imposed onto settings of human conflict and ventriloquised through diverse animal subjects. This paper defends narrating from a non-human animal perspective, not as a radical act, but as a move to reinvigorate our conceptions of human-animal relations. Meaningful encounters between human and non-human animals are presented with a recognition of the impossibility of full and mutual inter-species understanding. The juxtaposition of the limits of figuring literary animals with human/animal intimacy and incomprehension marks Dovey’s work as a logical progression of some ideas presented in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. This paper reads Dovey’s deployment of textual self-referentiality and overt intersection with Coetzee’s work in Only the Animals as a reflexive writing form that works to critique another representational dispossession: that of anthropocentric realism. Both works understand that humans do not share language with non-human animals but we often meet questions of the animal through stories. This makes the stories we tell highly significant; indeed – vital – components of the cultural landscape.","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":"364 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41330804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of *A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History*, by Katherine Bode","authors":"Kenneth M. Price","doi":"10.20314/ALS.40CCD47432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.40CCD47432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42047418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of *The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity*, by Victoria Kuttainen, Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly","authors":"M. Cooper","doi":"10.20314/ALS.6D06BD508D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.6D06BD508D","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41360472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of *Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt*, by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth","authors":"D. Graham","doi":"10.20314/ALS.E487F5777E","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.E487F5777E","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41825784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ends of Empire: Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity","authors":"C. Mills, Geoffrey Hondroudakis","doi":"10.20314/ALS.CCA231AF02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.CCA231AF02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49395336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Menace of Intimacy: Domestic Noir, Feminist Criminology, and Emily Maguire’s *An Isolated Incident*","authors":"Meggan Vann","doi":"10.20314/ALS.A32C478454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.A32C478454","url":null,"abstract":"Viewed through the lens of feminist criminology, how does the subgenre of domestic noir dramatise domestic violence through generic or subversive elements of craft? Drew Humphries asserts that feminist criminology has challenged, reframed and improved legal definitions and data collection regarding women and violence (as both victims and perpetrators), and that those changes have been registered more widely in the community via media both in journalistic choices and in the themes and features of literary genres (xi). Drawing on this conceptual framework, my research analyses representations of domestic violence in domestic noir novels with reference to feminist criminological theories, including gender critiques of Life Course Theory and the General Strain Theory of Deviance. This article presents a textual analysis of Emily Maguire’s An Isolated Incident (2016) as a literary crime novel with domestic noir features centring on the use of domestic violence to build narrative interest and deliver dramatic tension, while also identifying the subversion of generic elements to enable thematic consideration of intersectional feminist concerns. I demonstrate that the rise in popularity of domestic noir occurs against a backdrop of an increased culture of interest in domestic violence, arguing that domestic noir narrative strategies leverage the complexities of feminist gains in criminology and criminal justice to give voice to women’s and girls’ experiences of gendered violence.","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47322201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels","authors":"C. Parnell","doi":"10.20314/ALS.1CD73E2F68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.1CD73E2F68","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41702213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of *Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964*, by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell","authors":"S. Lever","doi":"10.20314/ALS.5F6E1063AE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.5F6E1063AE","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49319415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction","authors":"J. McAlister","doi":"10.20314/ALS.0FD566D109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20314/ALS.0FD566D109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42299,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45382839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}