Intertextuality
Articles
- An Infinite Onion: Narrative Structure in Peter Carey’s Fiction
Discusses Carey's approach to writing narrative and about narrative, focusing on Harry Joy's stories in Bliss. Dovey shows how the novel foregrounds the…
1 October 1983 - Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
Examines patterns in the relationship between newspaper accounts of sensational crimes and crime fiction published in the late 1880s.
1 May 2005 - ‘The Other Seven Little Australians’: The Man Who Loved Children Reads Ethel Turner
Martin suggests that The Man Who Loved Children ‘can be read as a rewriting of … Ethel Turner’s Seven little Australians and argues that while…
1 October 2010 - A Ghost Story in Two Part : Charles Dickens, Peter Carey, and Avenging Phantoms
It is only just that an argument about phantoms begin by introducing its own ghosts. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth prowl the shadows of Charles Dickens's…
1 October 2004 - Revisiting the ‘Problem’ of Anthropomorphism through Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (2014)
In Ceridwen Dovey’s short story cycle, Only the Animals, inter-textual allusions to established fictional animals are imposed onto settings of human conflict and ventriloquised…
5 July 2019