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On The Corner Of North And Nowhere. A Novel ‐ And ‐ Going Back To Go Forward: An Invitation To Get Lost. A Critical Essay, Ali Marie Jarvey
On The Corner Of North And Nowhere. A Novel ‐ And ‐ Going Back To Go Forward: An Invitation To Get Lost. A Critical Essay, Ali Marie Jarvey
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis comprises a young adult (YA) novel called On the Corner of North and Nowhere and an exegesis entitled ‘Going Back to Go Forward: An Invitation to Get Lost’.
On the Corner of North and Nowhere follows 18‐year‐old Nev Isles, who lives and works at Cleary’s, her grandmother’s art retreat in the Perth Hills. She dwells happily in an old cottage by herself, until her mother decides that she wants to move there too. Rather than live with her again, Nev runs away with her friend, Cole, set for the WA roads she travelled as a child and …
Sexuality, Desire And The Ageing Female Body: An Essay, Lauren Marsh
Sexuality, Desire And The Ageing Female Body: An Essay, Lauren Marsh
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis consists of a novella, ‘One Night in Hong Kong’, and an essay, ‘Sexuality, Desire and the Ageing Female Body.’ The novella tells the story of an erotic affair between the female narrator and a man in a hotel room in the neon city of Hong Kong. Told in four parts, the story shifts in time, reflecting on earlier events in the narrator’s life and a trip she made to the Sicilian city of Catania in 1954.
Older female protagonists and their sexuality are rarely depicted in contemporary Australian fiction. Where representations do exist, they act as ‘interventionist’ texts, …