Lucy Neave
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Neave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Neave |
| SIGNATURE | NEAVE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1648-5893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)
To date, literary fiction's interventions into debates about the crisis in literary studies, and contestations over critical methods, have received scant scholarly attention.Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind treats the idea of crisis with irony, utilising overstatement in the novel's narrative discourse to draw attention to crisis discourse's inefficacy in delivering meaningful change.The novel represents literary critique, especially as…
Transnationalism and the Literary Reception of Australian Women Writers’ Fiction in the US, 2010–2020
Charlotte Wood's The Weekend (Riverhead, 2020), and Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel (
Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) as 'crisis fiction
Alexis Wright’s novel The Swan Book (2013) has been read as contesting imperialist histories in its use of ironic magical realism: asengaging with debates in Australian indigenous communities about sovereignty; and, as world-making in its portrayal of conflicting and overlapping material forces and temporalities. Previous readings have examined the text’s dramatisation of biopolitical interventions into the lives of Aboriginal people, and the nov…
The “unimaginable border” and bare life in Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy
This article offers a consideration of the figure of the feral child in Australian writer Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy (2009), a novel based on stories circulating in the media about children raised by dogs in post-perestroika Russia. The book was praised for its exploration of the liminal space occupied by its protagonist, Romochka, the ecocritical potential in the idea of ferality, and its grimly realistic portrayal of both Romochka’s privations and t…
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The “unimaginable border” and bare life in Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy
This article offers a consideration of the figure of the feral child in Australian writer Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy (2009), a novel based on stories circulating in the media about children raised by dogs in post-perestroika Russia. The book was praised for its exploration of the liminal space occupied by its protagonist, Romochka, the ecocritical potential in the idea of ferality, and its grimly realistic portrayal of both Romochka’s privations and t…
Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) as 'crisis fiction
Alexis Wright’s novel The Swan Book (2013) has been read as contesting imperialist histories in its use of ironic magical realism: asengaging with debates in Australian indigenous communities about sovereignty; and, as world-making in its portrayal of conflicting and overlapping material forces and temporalities. Previous readings have examined the text’s dramatisation of biopolitical interventions into the lives of Aboriginal people, and the nov…
Transnationalism and the Literary Reception of Australian Women Writers’ Fiction in the US, 2010–2020
Charlotte Wood's The Weekend (Riverhead, 2020), and Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel (
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)
To date, literary fiction's interventions into debates about the crisis in literary studies, and contestations over critical methods, have received scant scholarly attention.Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind treats the idea of crisis with irony, utilising overstatement in the novel's narrative discourse to draw attention to crisis discourse's inefficacy in delivering meaningful change.The novel represents literary critique, especially as…
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