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The Precarity of the Inarticulate : Two Kinds of Silence in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
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The Precarity of the Inarticulate : Two Kinds of Silence in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
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'Hulbert’s essay draws attention to the many sonic figures in Lindsay’s novel, offering a fresh reading of the precarious fates of the protagonists in this “preeminent weird Antipodean tale.”' (Publication abstract)
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Epigraph:
“Miranda… !” There was no answering voice. The awful silence
closed in and Edith began, quite loudly now, to scream. If her
terrified cries had been heard by anyone but a wallaby squatting
in a clump of bracken a few feet away, the picnic at Hanging
Rock might yet have been just another picnic on a summer’s
day. Nobody did hear them. The wallaby sprang up in alarm and
bounded away, as Edith turned back, plunged blindly into the
scrub and ran, stumbling and screaming, towards the plain. -
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The Precarity of the Inarticulate : Two Kinds of Silence in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
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