Alexis Harley Alexis Harley i(A67674 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 What Shall It Profit, If I Write a Spanking Good Story but Lose My Soul? Alexis Harley , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 5 2009;
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The author of an autobiography advances one account of her life, an account that she wills, a deliberate construction-interpretation-representation of her identity. But at the same time, automatically, unconsciously, without noticing, in a moment of distraction, she slips her fingers in and out of her reticule. She omits to mention a significant event. He abuses the apostrophe. The passive voice is used by her, repeatedly. These stylistic tics, messages performed by the body of the text, speak to the autobiography's reader, enable the reader to guess at the author's mental life, the discourses she's dwelt amongst, practised, failed to practise. They enable this sometimes in spite of what the autobiographer intends to reveal. Where we read in order to apprehend an author's identity, everything that the author does or omits to do is a relevant semantic clue.' (Author's abstract)

1 Remembering Ruby : 'Don't Take Your Love to Town' Again Alexis Harley , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , June 2007;

— Review of Don't Take Your Love to Town Ruby Langford Ginibi , 1988 single work autobiography
1 Story Gathering Alexis Harley , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , July 2007;

— Review of All My Mob Ruby Langford Ginibi , 2007 selected work autobiography
1 Robert Harris's Jane, Interlinear Alexis Harley , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 61 no. 2 2001; (p. 180-188)
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