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1 y separately published work icon Worldmaking : Literature, Language, Culture Tom Clark (editor), Emily Finlay (editor), Philippa Kelly (editor), Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2017 11791934 2017 anthology criticism

'In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of "worlds" to language and literature, formulating the term, "worldmaking" to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the "world" we know right now. We cannot catch or know "the world" as such: all we can catch are the world versions - descriptions, views or workings of the world - that are expressed in symbolic systems (words, music, dancing, visual representations). Over the twenty-five years since then, creative works have played a crucial role in realigning, reshaping and renegotiating our understandings of how worlds can be made and preserved in the face of globalizing trends.The volume is divided into three sections, each engaging with worlds as malleable constructs. Central to all of the contributions is the question: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon What is the Human? : Australian Voices from the Humanities L. E. Semler (editor), Bob Hodge (editor), Philippa Kelly (editor), Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2012 Z1906296 2012 anthology criticism 'How do we define the human today? Have the tumultuous changes of the past half century created such new conditions and epistemologies that all older ideas and answers are obsolete? Are Humanities disciplines and the knowledge they contain now consigned to specialist interest in an irrelevant past?

This book brings together seventeen Australian voices giving illuminating pers-pectives on these fundamental questions. They speak from many disciplines in the Humanities and probe the cultural products of humanity, past and present, inscribed on bodies and texts, in oral, print and digital media.

Some explore the place of the human among the animals and machines with which we share so much. They reflect on problems of the corporate world and pre-modern cultures of Asia and Europe. They learn from popular cultural forms like computer simulations and Japanese manga and dolls. They look in new ways at a range of literary forms and at figurations of the human in drama, verse, novel and film. From this extraordinary array of art and ingenuity from the past and the present, they cast a stark light on the human, what it was, is, and may be.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 4 y separately published work icon The King and I Philippa Kelly , New York (City) : Continuum , 2011 Z1818509 2011 single work autobiography 'Outlaws, irreverent humorists, political underdogs, authoritarians - and the silhouette, throughout, of a contemporary Australian woman: these are some of the figures who emerge from Philippa Kelly's extraordinary personal tale, The King and I. Kelly uses Shakespeare's King Lear as it has never been used before - to tell the story of Australia and Australians through the intimate journey she makes with Shakespeare's old king, whose struggles and torments are touchstones for the variety, poignancy and humour of Australian life. We hear the shrieking of birds and feel the heat of dusty towns, and we also come to know about important moments in Australia's social and political landscape: about the evolution of women's rights; about the erosion and reclamation of Aboriginal identity and the hardships experienced by transported settlers; and about attitudes toward age and endurance. At the heart of this book is one woman's personal story, and through this story we come to understand many profound and often hilarious features of the land Down Under.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Tributes to Elizabeth Philippa Kelly , 1999 single work biography
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 26 no. 2 1999; (p. 22-23)
1 'I Find Myself in Shakespeare' : Shakespeare, Race and National Identities Philippa Kelly , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 5 1998; (p. 95-104)
1 Laughing in His Face : Australia's Shakespeares Philippa Kelly , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 33 1998; (p. 40-53)
1 Brave Myth-Takes : Re-Writing Romance in Tim Winton's `The Riders' and Amanda Lohrey's `Camille's Bread' Robert Dixon , Philippa Kelly , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 42 no. 2 1997; (p. 49-59)
1 Transgressive Spaces: Helen Garner's "Cosmo Cosmolino" Philippa Kelly , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1995; (p. 19-25)
1 The Language of Subversion: Discourses of Desire in "Painted Woman", "The Children's Bach", and "Messages from Chaos" Philippa Kelly , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 54 no. 1 1994; (p. 143-156)
1 [Review] Isobars Philippa Kelly , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 19 no. 2 1992; (p. 176-178)
— Review of Isobars Janette Turner Hospital , 1990 selected work short story
1 The Hunt Philippa Kelly , 1992 single work short story humour
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 19 no. 2 1992; (p. 63-64)
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