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The Nation Or The Globe?: Australian Literature And/In The World, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Although far more nuanced and complex than am I suggesting here, I want to take the central thesis in Philip Mead’s ‘Proust at Caloundra’, a review-essay of Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney’s Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature? (2013), as a reminder of the importance of the national, and indeed the local, in the transnational turn in literary studies of the last decade or so. As Mead notes, slightly tongue-in-cheek, ‘[a]ll models of the world literary system … are structured according to complex political and cultural geometries and desires, as much as by national cultural genetics. There …

D.H. Lawrence's Plural Jurisprudence: An Enquiry Into Desmond Manderson's Post-Positivist 'Law And Literature', Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped and you find yourself speechless among the money-changers.

Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads

This article draws on Desmond Manderson's theorisation of ‘law and literature’ in order to undertake a jurisprudential reading of the last two ‘leadership novels’ that D.H. Lawrence published in the 1920s: Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent. This reading demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses in Manderson's methodology while …