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1 Meaghan Morris Thing Melissa Hardie , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , March vol. 24 no. 1 2018; (p. 39-43)

'‘Ironically,’ Meaghan Morris writes, ‘no text is more bleached of cultural particularity than the one which relentlessly theorizes “difference” without ever once stumbling over some stray material fact—a poem, a press photo, a snatch of TV news—that could, in its everyday density, take “theory” by surprise.’ Ecstasy and Economics itself pops up as a ‘stray material fact’ that took me by surprise as a student more than two decades ago, and it still does. First, consider its surprising contents page: it dedicates what it terms ‘American essays’ to the late Australian poet John Forbes, a pairing at face value as surprising as the pairing of ecstasy and economics. That surprise extends to the pun of its cover photograph, a parody of Max Dupain’s 1937 photo The Sunbaker by Anne Zahalka, an image which recalibrates the photograph’s late Modern complexion by substituting a bleached and blurry beach surround for the deep shadows of the original. This image feels as historical now as the Dupain’s earlier subtlety of tone; Ecstasy and Economics analyses that ‘bleaching’ itself, the ‘stumbling’ into theory (as John Mowitt would say) where the unexpected ‘stray material fact’ renews analysis against sheer stultification.  In the case of its cover photo the stray fact is hue, shade, distinction: a head of red hair whose capacity to surprise installs difference as surprise.'  (Introduction)

1 Melissa Jane Hardie on A Tragedy in Two Acts : Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan by Fiona Harari Melissa Hardie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 2 2012;

— Review of A Tragedy in Two Acts : Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan Fiona Harari , 2011 single work biography
1 9 y separately published work icon Ladylike Kate Lilley , Melissa Hardie , (cover artist), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2012 Z1865010 2012 selected work poetry (taught in 4 units)

'The title poem of this collection ('Ladylike') draws on pamphlets associated with the notorious case of the bigamist Mary Carleton, who was executed in 1673, and texts contemporary with it; women from Sigmund Freud's case studies provide the material for the series of poems, 'Round Vienna'; and the sequence 'Cleft' is dedicated to Kate Lilley's mother, Australian literary giant Dorothy Hewett.

'Throughout this collection, Kate mines the areas of her scholarly specialisation - the early modern period - as well as contemporary popular culture and matches it with some of the twentieth century's enduring interests such as psychoanalysis and Freud.

'Ladylike is a valuable addition to Australian poetry at large and will be of interest to readers of poetry, early modern history, Freud and early psychoanalysis.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 An Anniversary i "1-800-Got Junk? It's another year down", Melissa Hardie , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 45)
1 Hewettania i "Dorothy Hewett loved 4711.", Melissa Hardie , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , January-March no. 28 2003;
1 Live Burial : Andrew Riemer's "Sandstone Gothic: Confessions of an Accidental Academic" Melissa Hardie , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , September - November no. 11 1998;

— Review of Sandstone Gothic A. P. Riemer , 1998 single work autobiography
1 Out of the Shadows Melissa Hardie , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 6 no. 3 1994; (p. 25-26)

— Review of The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993 anthology criticism biography
1 Making Love, Making Babies or Making Do Melissa Hardie , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 49 no. 1 1989; (p. 113-117)

— Review of The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley , 1988 single work novel
1 Making Love, Making Babies or Making Do Melissa Hardie , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 49 no. 1 1989; (p. 113-117)

— Review of Joan Makes History Kate Grenville , 1988 single work novel
1 Body Language Melissa Hardie , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 49 no. 4 1989; (p. 654-660)

— Review of My Father's Moon Elizabeth Jolley , 1989 single work novel ; Broken Words Helen Hodgman , 1988 single work novel ; Working Hot : A Novel Mary Fallon , 1989 single work novel
1 Two Autobiographies Melissa Hardie , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 48 no. 4 1988; (p. 475-481)

— Review of A House of Trees Joan Colebrook , 1987 single work autobiography
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