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Diane Humphery Diane Humphery i(A57123 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Keeping Mum Diane Humphery , 2014 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 40 no. 1 2014; (p. 38-44)
1 Mummy Diane Humphery , 2000 single work short story
— Appears in: Northerly : A Journal of Arts and Letters in the Northern Regions of Australia and Beyond , August vol. 1 no. 2 2000; (p. 71-73)
1 The Chookyard Diane Humphery , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Extra-Territorial : Stories and Poems from the Northern Territory Literary Awards 1996; (p. 43-45.) A woman reflects on her childhood, her mother, and the chopping block next to the chookyard.
1 Objects Strangely Familiar : Symbolism and Literary Allusion in the Novels of Gary Crew Diane Humphery , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 6 no. 2 1996; (p. 37-45) Humphery discusses Crew's novels as a means of introducing young readers 'to important elements of style and literary techniques while at the same time immersing them in the wonderfully rich world of English literature'. Crewe's novels deliberately blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy as well as providing a 'much-needed bridge between popular culture and the traditional classics' and in this sense, his signifiers are highly provisional with the appeal of his work arising from the continual flickering, spilling and diffusing of meaning' (37). As novels of adolescent self-discovery, Humphery points out that 'the rites of passage are carried out within a framework which explores far-reaching historical, political, moral and religious values (37).
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