Susan Pyke Susan Pyke i(A64621 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Susan Pyke Reviews Ardea : A Philosophical Novella and Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living by Freya Mathews Susan Pyke , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2017;

— Review of Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living Freya Mathews , 2016 selected work prose
1 Creaturely Shifts : Contemporary Animal Crossings through the Alluring Trace of the Romantic Sublime Susan Pyke , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 41 2017;

'This paper considers the transformative use of the sublime aesthetic in two contemporary Gothic novels, Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) and Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (2015). My exploration begins with the Romantic sublime, defined here as a mode of perception created through art that is concerned with the awe-inspiring, the frightening and the ineffable. Sublime metamorphosis extends the Romantic sublime alongside the more fragmentary postmodern sublime through posthumanism. Sublime metamorphoses occur in these two speculative novels when their protagonists pause in the moment of sublime arrest in response to nonhuman others. Such moments create new embodied potentialities that may reshape human/nonhuman relations. When Carter’s central protagonist Marianne considers her position in moments of terror, she improves her marginalised status. She pushes through the boundaries of her species and the limitations of an injured world of mutation and brutality, evolving, in the end, to Tiger Lady. In Wood’s novel, the entrapped Yolanda shifts from prey to predator to a new kind of self-determination that frees her from her human confinement. Yolanda’s friend Verla follows with her own radical transmutation. In these novels sublime metamorphosis resists ideas of human exceptionality and troubles typologies that separate humans from other creatures. This approach may be of interest to creative writers concerned with more generative relations with the world’s nonhuman creatures. My own creative efforts are learning from such work.' (Publication abstract)

1 Susan Pyke Reviews Lupa and Lamb by Susan Hawthorne Susan Pyke , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2015;

— Review of Lupa and Lamb Susan Hawthorne , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Susan Pyke Reviews Outcrop Susan Pyke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2014;

— Review of Outcrop : Radical Australian Poetry of Land 2013 anthology poetry
1 Meltemi Susan Pyke , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Love Stories 2014; (p. 14-19)
1 Land's Edge i "in the plastic bag free town", Susan Pyke , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 186 2007; (p. 63)
1 Ribbons Susan Pyke , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 104 2006; (p. 111-112)
1 Riflebutt Road i "riflebutt road", Susan Pyke , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 31 no. 2 2005; (p. 170-171)
1 Visiting Angelo Susan Pyke , 2001 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 86 2001; (p. 75-80)
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