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Julian Murphy Julian Murphy i(6549583 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Aboriginal Art Julian Murphy , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 37 2016; (p. 82-91)
1 Walking Parramatta Road : Reading the City Street in Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014;
1 Being-in-Landscape : A Heideggerian Reading of Landscape in Gerald Murnane’s Inland Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'This essay conducts a Heideggerian reading of landscape in Gerald Murnane’s most challenging novel, Inland (1988). More specifically, Heidegger’s notion of Being-in-the-world is used to illuminate the way Murnane’s characters understand their place in the landscape around them. It is contended that when the characters of Inland engage with the landscape around them they are enjoined to reflect on their position on the plane of Being, and that such ontological reflection ultimately leads to an appreciation of their Being-in-the-world. This contention is supported in the essay with a close reading of one particular passage from Inland in which a character has a powerful experience of the wind passing over the landscape. In conducting a Heideggerian reading of Inland, this essay departs from the existing secondary literature on the novel. Most notably, this essay offers an alternative ontological framework to those of Harald Fawkner and Imre Salusinszky, who respectively propose phenomenological and solipsistic interpretations of landscape in Inland.' (Publication abstract)
1 Adding to the Hall of Mirrors : A Fictocritical Response to Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014; 'In this essay I take, as my departure point, Anthony Macris’ 2012 novel Great Western Highway: a love story. My specific focus is the presence of technology in the novel, and the way technology is shown to shape relations between individuals and between the individual and the world. Rather than adopt a strictly critical mode of writing, I have chosen to write this essay by oscillating between critical and creative prose, and drawing on a mixture of academic research, personal experience and anecdote. Such a mode is invited by Macris’ novel, which itself occupies the liminal space between fictional and critical writing. Furthermore, the fictocritical format of this essay allows me to deliberately confuse and conflate my own images with those from Macris’ novel. I enact this confusion in the hope that my essay becomes a contribution to Macris’ textual hall of mirrors, or what he more technically labels the ‘Generative mise en abyme’ (Macris 2008: 2).' (Publication summary)
1 A View Through the World Julian Murphy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , October - November no. 126 2013; (p. 51)
— Review of Belomor Nicolas Rothwell , 2013 single work prose
1 Reading Landscape in Gerald Murnane’s The Plains Julian Murphy , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Exegesis , no. 3 2013; (p. 4-13)
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