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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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Developing a Connective Feminine Discourse : Drusilla Modjeska on Women’s Lives, Love and Art
Coolabah
Coolabah
Subjects:
- Inner Cities : Australian Women's Memory of Place 1989 anthology poetry short story prose biography
- Poppy 1990 single work novel
- Exiles at Home : Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 1981 single work criticism biography
- The Orchard 1994 selected work short story
- The Cuckoo Clock 1993 single work autobiography
- Ripe to Tell 1997 single work novella
- Stravinsky's Lunch 1999 single work biography
- Timepieces 2002 selected work essay criticism prose
- The Mountain 2012 single work novel
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