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y separately published work icon Reflected Light : La Trobe Essays anthology   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Reflected Light : La Trobe Essays
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Gwen Harwood: Words and Music, Gregory Kratzmann , single work essay
'This essay is concerned mainly with what [Gwen Harwood] claimed to be her most satisfying work, the writing of librettos, words to be set to music.'
 (p. 285-301)
Therapy Culture, Katie Wright , single work essay
Wright discusses Frank Furedi's Therapy Culture : Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2004) from an Australian perspective.
 (p. 302-312)
In Prisons, Jacqueline Z. Wilson , single work essay
Wilson looks at the lives of those incarcerated in Ararat's infamous J Ward, an institution for the criminally insane.
 (p. 313-324)
A Chook Loose in the Top Paddock The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, Judith Brett , single work essay
Brett posits the view that for most Australians the chook 'symbolises the precariousness of our social order ... For the chook symbolises the forces, both inner and outer, which we fear we have not conquered, and it does so by being a uniquely Australian comic figure.'
 (p. 327-332)
The Gecko in the Machine, Inga Clendinnen , single work essay humour (p. 333-338)
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