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'Not Crying Now, but Brilliant-Eyed' : Epiphany in Harrower's 'The Fun of the Fair'
2021
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— Appears in: Reading Like an Australian Writer 2021; -
Weather and Temperature, the Will to Power, and the Female Subject in Harrower's Fiction
2017
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— Appears in: Elizabeth Harrower : Critical Essays 2017; (p. 71-85)'The opening sentence of the first short story Elizabeth Harrower ever completed 3 plunges the reader into a dramatic meteorological event:
And then, as if the lightning that ripped the sky apart wasn’t enough, the lights round the edge of the swimming pool, and even the three big ones sunk into it on cement piles, went out. At once the solid blackness rang with shrieks and laughter; only Janet was struck dumb to find that she had been obliterated. It was like nothing so much as that astronomical darkness into which she had been plunged last year when they took out her tonsils. (Introduction)
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Weather and Temperature, the Will to Power, and the Female Subject in Harrower's Fiction
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Elizabeth Harrower : Critical Essays 2017; (p. 71-85)'The opening sentence of the first short story Elizabeth Harrower ever completed 3 plunges the reader into a dramatic meteorological event:
And then, as if the lightning that ripped the sky apart wasn’t enough, the lights round the edge of the swimming pool, and even the three big ones sunk into it on cement piles, went out. At once the solid blackness rang with shrieks and laughter; only Janet was struck dumb to find that she had been obliterated. It was like nothing so much as that astronomical darkness into which she had been plunged last year when they took out her tonsils. (Introduction)
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'Not Crying Now, but Brilliant-Eyed' : Epiphany in Harrower's 'The Fun of the Fair'
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Like an Australian Writer 2021;
