West, Patrick Leslie
Deakin University
Australia
Patrick West, PhD
Associate Professor in Writing and Literature
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Deakin University
Dr Patrick West is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature in Deakin University’s School of Communication and Creative Arts. He was the Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the school from 2016 to 2019. Patrick’s most recent creative-arts publication is the short story ‘An Aura Nothing Out of the Ordinary,’ published in Prosopisia (Vol. XIII, No. 2, 2019). With Eleni Bastéa he co-edited a Special Issue of TEXT on Writing | Architecture in 2019 (No. 55) available at http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue55/content.htm
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ArticlesReviewing Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby (2013), Eve Vincent notes that it shares with Keri Hulme’s The Bone People (1984) one significant feature: “a glossary of Indigenous words.” Working with various forms of the term “abroad”, this article surveys the debate The Bone People ignited around the relative merits of such a glossary in texts written predominantly...Read more
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ArticlesLiterary critics have mainly read Herman Melville’s short story “I and My Chimney” (1856) as allegory. This article elaborates on the tradition of interpreting Melville’s text allegorically by relating it to Fredric Jameson’s post-structural reinterpretation of allegory. In doing so, it argues that the story is not a simple example of allegory but rather an auto-reflexive engagement with...Read more
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ArticlesIntroductionDreams feature frequently in poetry as framing devices for lyrical and narrative content. By contrast, Thom Gunn’s poem “The Annihilation of Nothing” (1958) theorises how dream, through its relationship to the states of sleeping and waking up, serves the creative process of practising poets. To this extent, Gunn is a challenging fellow traveller in...Read more
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ArticlesI have decided to launch a campaign against the skyscraper, that hideous, mediocre form of architecture…. Today we only have an empty version of it, only competing in height.— Rem Koolhaas, “Kool Enough for Beijing?”Read more
