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1 Into the Urban Labyrinth : Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative Nycole Prowse , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020;
1 Possibilities from the Peripheries into the Urban Labyrinth : Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip Nycole Prowse , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 213-226)

'This chapter proposes that in the literary sphere the drug trope reframes spatial and temporal regulatory notions of the body. The drug metaphor disrupts temporal linearity through the reconfiguration of “junk time”. Likewise, landscapes, cityscapes and a sense of place are re-imagined in fluid, drugged dreamscapes. In this way, drug imagery evokes leakages and slippages across time, space and the body enabling a re-evaluation of corporeal possibilities and potential. The “perverse” portrayal of the subject-body in drug literature is hyperbolised through the drug trope. The extremities of drug use also magnify the examination of difference between bodies based on gender and corresponding (dis)connections with space and time. A textual analysis of the Australian novel, Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip (1977) in this chapter provides a literary example.'

Source: Abstract.
1 [Review] The Fiction of Thea Astley Nycole Prowse , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 36 no. 3 2017; (p. 57)
— Review of The Fiction of Thea Astley Susan Sheridan , 2016 multi chapter work criticism

Susan Sheridan's The Fiction of Thea Astley is worthy and comprehensive foci on one of Australia's most astute writers of fiction. The book captures the intelligence and significance of Thea Astley's fiction -its evolution and its points of difference.' (Introduction)
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