Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 'The Dimension of the Symbolic' : Environmental Issues in David Malouf's "Jacko's Reach"
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In David Malouf’s works natural landscape often plays a crucial role: rather than being a simple narrative background, it becomes the main protagonist in his exploration of the relationship between man and nature. In my analysis of “Jacko’s Reach”, the shortest story in the Dream Stuff collection, I will focus on two different environmental concerns that emerge from a close reading of this work: the question of space and identity (and the passage from the physical landscape to the ‘dimension of the symbolic’) and the issue of territorial deprivation as a neo-colonial policy with its possible solutions.

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    y separately published work icon Le Simplegadi Living Together On This Earth : Eco-Sustainable Narratives and Environmental Concerns in English Literature/s vol. 17 November 2017 12339221 2017 periodical issue 2017 pg. 306-313
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