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1 New Writing in an Aged Care Setting Melinda Rose Jewell , Rachel Morley , Anthony Uhlmann , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Writing , vol. 16 no. 2 2019; (p. 206-219)

'To investigate the health benefits of participating in creative writing workshops, in 2015 and 2016 a group of academics from Western Sydney University ran an intervention in two retirement homes. Asked to participate in both ‘life writing’ and ‘experimental’ writing exercises rather than purely in life writing alone, participants showed an ability to write in ways they had not done previously, with the two modes of writing practice proving complementary. Two case studies, Skipper and Brydon, show how participants engaged in ‘new writing’ in different ways. A study of the data on the continuing independently run workshops between the two interventions and after the second one reveals that the participants continued to write in ‘new ways’ even after the academic facilitators had ceased being involved.' (Publication abstract)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels : The Darkness beyond the Stage-Lit Dream Melinda Rose Jewell , New York (City) : Peter Lang , 2011 Z1893776 2011 single work criticism 'This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word 'dance' is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is written in a novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial studies, theories concerned with class, gender, metaphor and dance and, in particular, Jung's concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these variegated approaches, the study critiques the common view that dance is an expression of joie de vivre, liberation, transcendence, order and beauty. This text also probes issues concerned with the enactment of dance in Australia and abroad, and contributes to an understanding of how dance is 'translated' into literature. It makes an important contribution because the study of dance in Australian literature has been minimal, and this despite the reality that dance is prolific in Australian novels.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 'A Vision through the Smoky Haze' : Viewing Corroboree in Selected Australian Novels Melinda Rose Jewell , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 20 no. 1&2 2005; (p. 31-54) "Fiction portraying the experiences of Australian Indigenous people often contains depictions of the 'corroboree'. This representation commonly conveys a scenario in which Indigenous people dance while being watched by white spectators. This establishes a relationship between seeing and knowing that locates power in the hands of the white observers. Later in this century, both non-Indigenous, then more typically Indigenous authors, deconstruct the power structures at work in these portrayals." (31)
1 Terpsichorean Moments in Patrick White's The Solid Mandala and Hal Porter's The Tilted Cross Melinda Rose Jewell , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 4 no. 2005; (p. 35-47) Discusses the importance of 'choreographic moments' in the two novels, focusing 'specifically on the acts of dance portrayed in the texts, discussing the movements performed and the characteristics of the dancers performing.'
1 Dance and Postcolonialism in Mardi McConnochie's The Snow Queen Melinda Rose Jewell , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 77-86, notes 240-242)
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