Art Profiles http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1276 2013-06-20T12:38:33Z 2013-06-20T12:38:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1458 2013-05-13T01:26:17Z 2003-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Bestsellers / Subscription. Abstract: This item outlines the February 2003 Bestsellers, subscription information from this issue, and 2002 Bestsellers.

2003-03-01T00:00:00Z Armstrong, Judith http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1455 2013-05-13T01:59:08Z 2003-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Festival Days. Authors: Armstrong, Judith Abstract: 'What do women want?' Even if Sigmund Freud didn't have writers' festivals in mind when he framed his famous question, it is apt enough in the context of the many pleasant-faced, intelligent-looking, female ticket-holders at these celebrations of readerly jouissance. Mingling with them during the first three days of the Western Australian Writers' Festival - one of the activities of the cutely named PIAF, or Perth International Arts Festival - what Armstrong wanted was to find out why they were there, other than to hear celebrity speakers such as Michael Palin (Booked Out).

2003-03-01T00:00:00Z Salzman, Paul http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1453 2013-05-13T01:59:08Z 2003-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Magic Moments. "Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic" by Simon During. [review] Authors: Salzman, Paul Abstract: During's discussion of magic lanterns, photography and film is extremely suggestive and stimulating, but at the same time it remains rather fragmentary: a series of suggestions, rather than a continuous argument. During disarmingly admits to this process: 'my argument as presented so far [this on page 277!] skips and swerves and depends upon a number of coincidences and loose connections.' He then advances, in the last pages of his book, his overarching argument about modernity's intertwining with the history of secular magic. Rather than 'argument', one might call this a richly illustrated suggestion that sums up a stimulating, clearly written, rich, but slightly frustrating book.

2003-03-01T00:00:00Z Rutherford, Jennifer http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1451 2013-05-13T01:58:40Z 2003-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Dazzling Complexes. "After Electra: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction" by Eden Liddelow. [review] Authors: Rutherford, Jennifer Abstract: This book continues the conversation between psycholanalysis and literature, drawing on Klein, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari to frame the work of twentieth-century women writers in the psycho-pathology of their time. The book's argument rests on mapping the Kleinian traumatic scenario - '[the child's] violent feelings of anxiety, splitting and rage towards the mother on withdrawal of the breast, and later the grief that goes with fear of being left abandoned and alone if that rage is expressed' - onto twentieth-century social and textual relations. In essays on nine writers (Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Janet Frame, Helen Garner, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Jolley, Jean Rhys, Susan Sontag and Ania Walwicz), Liddelow explores how each one offers a path beyond the identification and assimilation of child to mother - self to other - which, in her analysis, dominates intersubjective relations in the twentieth century.

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