Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Developing a Connective Feminine Discourse : Drusilla Modjeska on Women’s Lives, Love and Art
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'This paper discusses the work of the Australian writer and historian Drusilla Modjeska through a focus on the intersections between women‟s lives, love and art, which constitute the central triptych of Modjeska‟s writing. It argues that Modjeska‟s oeuvre unfolds a connective feminine discourse through a development of what the paper calls hinging tropes, discursive connectors that join life, love and art, such as weaving, folding and talking. That connective feminine discourse is indeed central to Modjeska‟s personal and sometimes idiosyncratic feminism.' (Publication summary)

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  • Epigraph:

    “[F]or „life‟ and „art‟ – those two huge categories

    – rarely sit comfortably together; men and women

    almost invariably take different positions and get

    angry.” (Stravinsky’s Lunch, 17)

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    y separately published work icon Coolabah After the Water Has Been Shed no. 16 2015 8626343 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 101-111
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