Literary Essays by Gillian Dooley http://hdl.handle.net/2328/3315 2013-05-24T07:08:46Z 2013-05-24T07:08:46Z Dooley, Gillian http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26661 2013-05-13T02:10:21Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Looking Back in Anger: The Transformation of Childhood Memories in Two West Indian Novels. Authors: Dooley, Gillian Abstract: Anger, for all its negative aspects, can provide creative urges which produce works of art of great power. The anger of the adult writer is often directed against the forces which tried to control and repress that writer as a child, so that the novel written in anger is frequently in essence, even if not in detail, autobiographical. Dickens' novels, for example, often deal with the child victim of industrialisation - dramatising again and again his own unhappy childhood. And another great feature of the European ascendancy, imperialism, spread conditions across the world which created more anger among the colonised peoples of the world. Ironically, however, the means to express this anger was also often provided to those who had the intelligence to use it. Perhaps it represents a triumph of western liberal education, over those who tried to use it as a weapon of oppression, that it could produce subtle and articulate writers like V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid. Description: An earlier version of this article was published in The West Indian Fiction, ed. R.K. Dhawan, (New Delhi: Prestige, 2000) 164-172.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Dooley, Gillian Mary http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26597 2013-05-13T02:10:17Z 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'You are my Australia': Brian Medlin's contribution to Iris Murdoch’s concept of Australia in The Green Knight Authors: Dooley, Gillian Mary Abstract: Australian radical and philosopher Brian Medlin met Iris Murdoch at Oxford in the early 1960s, and the correspondence between them, now held at Flinders University in South Australia, covers a period of more than twenty years. In his letters he regaled her with Australian jokes, travel stories and anecdotes, and answered her many questions about Australian flora and fauna, and language. While she was writing The Green Knight she was particularly keen to quiz him about the Australian vernacular to help her with the character of the publican Kenneth Rathbone. This paper traces the evolution of Murdoch’s concept of Australia from An Unofficial Rose to Jackson’s Dilemma, and in particular the way her portrayal of Australia in The Green Knight was influenced by her friendship with Medlin.

2011-12-01T00:00:00Z Dooley, Gillian Mary http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26561 2013-05-13T02:10:17Z 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'Naipaul's Women Revisited' Authors: Dooley, Gillian Mary Abstract: This article is a reconsideration of V.S. Naipaul’s attitude toward women, following from the author’s 2005 article “Naipaul’s Women.” Various recent statements Naipaul has made about female authors, including Diana Athill and Jane Austen, are examined in the light of his writings, both fact and fiction, about women in general and women writers in particular. Some consideration is also given to his relations with women in his personal life, including his sister and his wife. The final assessment is that Naipaul’s impatient “off the cuff” statements about women in interviews and at public events are not reflected in his nonfiction writings.]

2012-12-01T00:00:00Z Dooley, Gillian Mary http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26553 2013-05-13T02:10:09Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Getting to Know Matthew: A Personal Account of Editing Flinders' Private Journal. Authors: Dooley, Gillian Mary

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