Jennifer Rutherford Jennifer Rutherford i(A7282 works by)
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1 Hunters and Collectors Jennifer Rutherford , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020; (p. 165-173)
1 Homeward Flight Jennifer Rutherford , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 109-118)
'Last year, I fell out of a bathtub. Naked on the floor of a hotel bathroom in a cold foreign city calling for help that did not come, I came a little too close to death. When help finally did arrive, ambulance-men carried me through snow-drifts and crowded streets, naked except for the hotel sheet they had wrapped me in, and a hat topped off with a large purple flower. I would like to say I’m making up the detail of the hat, but I’m not. I don’t like to go out without a hat, it makes me feel naked, so I had called for it as they were carrying me out of the room and someone, obligingly, had stuck it on my head with the flower at full-mast so that it looked like one of those oldfashioned flowerpot chimneys. But I was at least on route to hospital and alive—that is until I arrived at the hospital where a nurse, main-lining a drug to relieve the pain, flipped me back into the death I had just escaped.' (Introduction)
1 The Bb Book Jennifer Rutherford , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 122-128)

'My first book was yellow. On its cover was a bumblebee and the words ‘All the best things in the world begin with a b.’ I look at the words, and the words make sense, and suddenly the book springs into story. All these years later I can open that book’s hard yellow covers and I am six years old, alone at night, and making a discovery that will mean I am never alone again. There is a boy, there is a butterfly, and there is a bumblebee. They all begin with a b, they are all found in the book, and they are all the best things in the world.'  (Introduction)

1 Greyson : Excerpt from Méren : Me, My Brothers and I Jennifer Rutherford , 2018 single work extract novel
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 6 2018; (p. 50-56)
1 House of Flowers Jennifer Rutherford , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2017 2017; (p. 204-214)
1 Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of Jesus Jennifer Rutherford , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus : The Ethics of Ideas and Things 2017; (p. 59-82)
1 y separately published work icon J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus : The Ethics of Ideas and Things Jennifer Rutherford (editor), Anthony Uhlmann (editor), New York (City) : Bloomsbury , 2017 11790181 2017 anthology criticism

'Since the controversy and acclaim that surrounded the publication of Disgrace (1999), the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature and the publication of Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (both in 2003), J. M. Coetzee's status has begun to steadily rise to the point where he has now outgrown the specialized domain of South African literature. Today he is recognized more simply as one of the most important writers in the English language from the late 20th and early 21st century. Coetzee's productivity and invention has not slowed with old age. The Childhood of Jesus, published in 2013, like Elizabeth Costello, was met with a puzzled reception, as critics struggled to come to terms with its odd setting and structure, its seemingly flat tone, and the strange affectless interactions of its characters. Most puzzling was the central character, David, linked by the title to an idea of Jesus. J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things is at the forefront of an exciting process of critical engagement with this novel, which has begun to uncover its rich dialogue with philosophy, theology, mathematics, politics, and questions of meaning.' (Publication summary)

1 The Secret of the Father in the Colonial Secret: Rosa Praed's 'Weird Melancholy' Jennifer Rutherford , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Literature of Melancholia : Early Modern to Postmodern. 2011; (p. 160-172)
1 Undwelling; or Reading Bachelard in Australia Jennifer Rutherford , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 113-125)
1 Kairos for a Wounded Country Jennifer Rutherford , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 1-11)
1 2 y separately published work icon Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces Jennifer Rutherford (editor), Barbara Holloway (editor), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2010 Z1746913 2010 anthology criticism essay

'Halfway House is a collection of original, scholarly and inventive essays and images. It brings together writers who are both noted and new voices in contemporary discussions of Australian engagement with place. Rather than attempting to impose a uniform concept of Australian poetics, the contributors to Halfway House have investigated revealing situations, occasions and technology.

Using poetics in many senses, Halfway House is an exciting, original and provocative contribution to how Australians use, confront or avoid the place we live, its history, its environment and culture.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Homo Nullius : The Politics of Pessimism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man Jennifer Rutherford , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Remembering Patrick White : Contemporary Critical Essays 2010; (p. 47-64)
'One would have to be melancholic to champion Patrick White in an Australian university in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. Or, as one student said, seeing a photo of Patrick White pinned up outside my office, "You must have a hell of a death drive."'

 (Introduction)

1 Flaubert in the Garden Jennifer Rutherford , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 18 (New Series) 2008; (p. 79-96)
1 Clay, Cloth, Corps Jennifer Rutherford , 2005 single work prose
— Appears in: In/Stead , Spring no. 1 2005;
1 Dazzling Complexes Jennifer Rutherford , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 249 2003; (p. 65)

— Review of After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction Eden Liddelow , 2002 multi chapter work criticism
1 2 The Colonising Victim : Tim Winton's Irish Conceit Jennifer Rutherford , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Flight from Certainty : The Dilemma of Identity and Exile 2001; (p. 153-163)
1 The Irish Conceit: Ireland and the New Australian Nationalism Jennifer Rutherford , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ireland and Australia, 1798-1998 : Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration 2000; (p. 196-207)
1 11 y separately published work icon The Gauche Intruder : Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy Jennifer Rutherford , Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2000 Z821761 2000 single work criticism In attempting to trace the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity, the study examines the link between morality and aggression in the history of white Australia, thus providing an introduction to a psychoanalytic sociology of Australian culture. It includes discussion of works by Henry Handel Richardson, George Johnston, Patrick White, David Malouf and Tim Winton.
1 Being for the Nation : Masculine Sacrifice in 'My Brother Jack' Jennifer Rutherford , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 17 no. 1 1998; (p. 109-127)
1 Identifying the Australian Gaze : Identifying an Australian Perversion : Rereading 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony' Jennifer Rutherford , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 16 no. 2 1997; (p. 281-303)
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