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Janice Shaw examines Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water. Shaw states that the Farmer's term 'embrace of the mirror' is a motif that 'characterises Farmer's writing in terms of the relationships she presents. The gender issues revealed through these relationships are characterised by feelings of coldness, otherness, and love, being a reflection of the self which only serves to emphasise its 'selfish nature...' (p. 151)
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- A Body of Water : A Year's Notebook 1990 selected work autobiography short story poetry diary
- Scraping and Repainting Reflecting Surfaces: Mirrors and Water in Beverley Farmer's Fiction 2000 single work criticism
- Home Time 1985 selected work short story
- Milk : Stories 1983 selected work short story
- Preoccupations 1990 single work criticism
- The Fiction of Beverley Farmer 1990 single work criticism
- Futility and Other Animals 1969 selected work short story
- Dramatising the Self : Beverley Farmer's Fiction 1995 single work criticism
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