Monique Rooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 799892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monique Rooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monique |
| FAMILY NAME | Rooney |
| SIGNATURE | ROONEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5744-6968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The space not beyond: T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) and its musical adaptations as elemental melodrama of an upper-atmospheric limit
This essay examines T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) and its subsequent musical adaptation, Cats (1981) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, through the lens of elemental melodrama. It begins with Eliot’s envisioned but omitted conclusion, where a poet ascends with Jellicle cats, and explores its revival in the musical’s song ‘Journey to the Heaviside Layer’. This ascent melodramatises the climactic journey to a heaven, an imaginary spa…
Elemental melodrama
Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk’s mid-century saga of a Texas oil dynasty, stands as one of the émigré filmmaker’s best-known works from his string of Hollywood melodramas made in the 1950
The Pleasure of Self-erasure: Malabou, (Sexual) Anarchy and Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi
This article interprets Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi (Without roof or law) through the lens of Catherine Malabou’s concept of anarchy as the “non-governable”: order without command or origin. I elucidate key elements of Malabou’s anarchy in my analysis of Varda’s character Mona Bergeron, a rebellious girl who wanders free from structures of domination. I read Varda’s Mona as an emblem of sexual anarchy, with detailed reference to Malabou’s argu…
A Window of Life’: Essays on Ruth Park
Known for novels that have achieved both popular success and critical acclaim -such as The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), both of which remain in print -Park's career has involved an unusual blend of wide-ranging public appeal and literary distinction.In addition to her nine adult novels and over twenty children's books, including the long-running, multi-volume Muddleheaded Wombat series , Park also produced significant w…
Introduction: On Intergenerational Justice
A CONTRIVANCE OF certain Victorian novels hinging on 'a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits'.While this plot device facilitates exploration of the role of the law in perpetuating the 'grip of the old and the dead upon the young', fictional treatments of the 'postmortem transfer of assets' frequently end in failure.Turnin…
Ruth Park’s Charlie Rothe: Reading *Harp in the South* (1948) and *Poor Man’s Orange* (1949)
essay 'Gifts across Space and Time' with a direct address to her readers and listeners. Speaking to 'you', Simpson initiates what she calls a 'speak/listen trade'. The essay is available to us in both print and audio format, and it enacts the encounter that it thematises. Speak/listen trade invites us to receive the time, thought and care that Simpson as speaking author offers. Addressing 'you' while invoking 'we' and 'our', Simpson implies the h…
Introduction to Seventy Years of Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds
Introduction to AHR Forum: ‘True, Impossible Teaching Archive’, Part One
The significance of this speculative gathering of teaching and learning records is brought to life through their book's focus on a selection of curricula and other teaching-related documents that reveal the rich and varied practices of the literary studies classroom. Following economic fallout accompanying COVID-19, retrenchment of staffand casualisation of academic labour are also threatening the very survival of literary studies in many univers…
Trigger Archive: What Is a True, Impossible Teaching Archive
THE TEACHING Archive both excavates and interprets the syllabuses and other classroomrelated archives of ten tertiary English-literature courses, providing in the process what the authors call a 'true history' of the literary studies discipline as it was taught by a variety of English and American teachers over the course of the twentieth century. Through its textual tracing of a selection of classroom-based materials, methods and practices, The …
Kenneth Lonergan's networked Bildungsromane: Howards End (2017) and Margaret (2011)
This essay analyses Kenneth Lonergan’s television miniseries Howards End (2017, screenwriter Lonergan, director Hettie McDonald) and the film Margaret (2011, director and screenwriter Lonergan) as coming-of-age narratives in which tragic storylines pivot on the actions of young, middle-class women who insert themselves into the lives of other people. Deploying but departing from Marxist materialist analyses of the Bildungsroman, namely Franco Mor…
Queer Objects
Queer Objects and Intermedial Timepieces: Readings-Town(2017)
This paper takes as its queer object a serialized podcast. With its story about John B. McLemore, a clockmaker from Woodstock, Alabama, S-Town is a blockbuster success from the producers of Serial (2014-16) and This American Life (1995-present) (the seven-part series was downloaded 16 million times in the first week of its release, with that number now exceeding 40 million; see Hess, “‘S-Town’ Attains Podcasting Blockbuster Status,” New York Time…
Turned Back: Mad Men as Intermedial Melodrama
This essay draws on definitions of gesture (Giorgio Agamben and Peter Brooks) and catachresis (Peter Brooks, Jacques Derrida) to examine the primacy of non-verbal signifiers as communicators of meaning in AMC's Mad Men. Beginning with an analysis of Mad Men's credit sequence, it draws attention to Mad Men's use of gesture and catachresis in relation to melodrama's privileging of non-verbal and naturalistic expression and its persistence as an int…
Introduction: Passing, imitations, crossings
When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the nature of identity and the meaning of multiculturalism. 1 Such 'passing' controversies have the capacity to unsettle everyday perceptions about personhood and about social classifications and identifications.The essays collected in this special issue of Humanities Res…
What passes in Imitation of Life
You can't escape what you are.1 The above epigraph comes from Jon Halliday 's well-known interview with Douglas Sirk, the director of Imitation of Life (1959), and is made in reference to the condition of the racial passer in Sirk's film. It could be said that Sirk's line encapsulates the conservative and essentialist nature of passing-for-white stories in which the mixed-race character's transgressive desire to escape her origins typically ends …
A Practical Activity Approach to Teaching Aboriginal Children
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Ruth Park’s Charlie Rothe: Reading *Harp in the South* (1948) and *Poor Man’s Orange* (1949)
essay 'Gifts across Space and Time' with a direct address to her readers and listeners. Speaking to 'you', Simpson initiates what she calls a 'speak/listen trade'. The essay is available to us in both print and audio format, and it enacts the encounter that it thematises. Speak/listen trade invites us to receive the time, thought and care that Simpson as speaking author offers. Addressing 'you' while invoking 'we' and 'our', Simpson implies the h…
Kenneth Lonergan's networked Bildungsromane: Howards End (2017) and Margaret (2011)
This essay analyses Kenneth Lonergan’s television miniseries Howards End (2017, screenwriter Lonergan, director Hettie McDonald) and the film Margaret (2011, director and screenwriter Lonergan) as coming-of-age narratives in which tragic storylines pivot on the actions of young, middle-class women who insert themselves into the lives of other people. Deploying but departing from Marxist materialist analyses of the Bildungsroman, namely Franco Mor…
Queer Objects
Queer Objects and Intermedial Timepieces: Readings-Town(2017)
This paper takes as its queer object a serialized podcast. With its story about John B. McLemore, a clockmaker from Woodstock, Alabama, S-Town is a blockbuster success from the producers of Serial (2014-16) and This American Life (1995-present) (the seven-part series was downloaded 16 million times in the first week of its release, with that number now exceeding 40 million; see Hess, “‘S-Town’ Attains Podcasting Blockbuster Status,” New York Time…
A Practical Activity Approach to Teaching Aboriginal Children
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Passing, imitations, crossings
When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the nature of identity and the meaning of multiculturalism. 1 Such 'passing' controversies have the capacity to unsettle everyday perceptions about personhood and about social classifications and identifications.The essays collected in this special issue of Humanities Res…
What passes in Imitation of Life
You can't escape what you are.1 The above epigraph comes from Jon Halliday 's well-known interview with Douglas Sirk, the director of Imitation of Life (1959), and is made in reference to the condition of the racial passer in Sirk's film. It could be said that Sirk's line encapsulates the conservative and essentialist nature of passing-for-white stories in which the mixed-race character's transgressive desire to escape her origins typically ends …
Turned Back: Mad Men as Intermedial Melodrama
This essay draws on definitions of gesture (Giorgio Agamben and Peter Brooks) and catachresis (Peter Brooks, Jacques Derrida) to examine the primacy of non-verbal signifiers as communicators of meaning in AMC's Mad Men. Beginning with an analysis of Mad Men's credit sequence, it draws attention to Mad Men's use of gesture and catachresis in relation to melodrama's privileging of non-verbal and naturalistic expression and its persistence as an int…
Queer Objects
Queer Objects and Intermedial Timepieces: Readings-Town(2017)
This paper takes as its queer object a serialized podcast. With its story about John B. McLemore, a clockmaker from Woodstock, Alabama, S-Town is a blockbuster success from the producers of Serial (2014-16) and This American Life (1995-present) (the seven-part series was downloaded 16 million times in the first week of its release, with that number now exceeding 40 million; see Hess, “‘S-Town’ Attains Podcasting Blockbuster Status,” New York Time…
Kenneth Lonergan's networked Bildungsromane: Howards End (2017) and Margaret (2011)
This essay analyses Kenneth Lonergan’s television miniseries Howards End (2017, screenwriter Lonergan, director Hettie McDonald) and the film Margaret (2011, director and screenwriter Lonergan) as coming-of-age narratives in which tragic storylines pivot on the actions of young, middle-class women who insert themselves into the lives of other people. Deploying but departing from Marxist materialist analyses of the Bildungsroman, namely Franco Mor…
Introduction to AHR Forum: ‘True, Impossible Teaching Archive’, Part One
The significance of this speculative gathering of teaching and learning records is brought to life through their book's focus on a selection of curricula and other teaching-related documents that reveal the rich and varied practices of the literary studies classroom. Following economic fallout accompanying COVID-19, retrenchment of staffand casualisation of academic labour are also threatening the very survival of literary studies in many univers…
Trigger Archive: What Is a True, Impossible Teaching Archive
THE TEACHING Archive both excavates and interprets the syllabuses and other classroomrelated archives of ten tertiary English-literature courses, providing in the process what the authors call a 'true history' of the literary studies discipline as it was taught by a variety of English and American teachers over the course of the twentieth century. Through its textual tracing of a selection of classroom-based materials, methods and practices, The …
Introduction to Seventy Years of Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds
Introduction: On Intergenerational Justice
A CONTRIVANCE OF certain Victorian novels hinging on 'a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits'.While this plot device facilitates exploration of the role of the law in perpetuating the 'grip of the old and the dead upon the young', fictional treatments of the 'postmortem transfer of assets' frequently end in failure.Turnin…
Ruth Park’s Charlie Rothe: Reading *Harp in the South* (1948) and *Poor Man’s Orange* (1949)
essay 'Gifts across Space and Time' with a direct address to her readers and listeners. Speaking to 'you', Simpson initiates what she calls a 'speak/listen trade'. The essay is available to us in both print and audio format, and it enacts the encounter that it thematises. Speak/listen trade invites us to receive the time, thought and care that Simpson as speaking author offers. Addressing 'you' while invoking 'we' and 'our', Simpson implies the h…
The Pleasure of Self-erasure: Malabou, (Sexual) Anarchy and Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi
This article interprets Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi (Without roof or law) through the lens of Catherine Malabou’s concept of anarchy as the “non-governable”: order without command or origin. I elucidate key elements of Malabou’s anarchy in my analysis of Varda’s character Mona Bergeron, a rebellious girl who wanders free from structures of domination. I read Varda’s Mona as an emblem of sexual anarchy, with detailed reference to Malabou’s argu…
A Window of Life’: Essays on Ruth Park
Known for novels that have achieved both popular success and critical acclaim -such as The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), both of which remain in print -Park's career has involved an unusual blend of wide-ranging public appeal and literary distinction.In addition to her nine adult novels and over twenty children's books, including the long-running, multi-volume Muddleheaded Wombat series , Park also produced significant w…
The space not beyond: T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) and its musical adaptations as elemental melodrama of an upper-atmospheric limit
This essay examines T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) and its subsequent musical adaptation, Cats (1981) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, through the lens of elemental melodrama. It begins with Eliot’s envisioned but omitted conclusion, where a poet ascends with Jellicle cats, and explores its revival in the musical’s song ‘Journey to the Heaviside Layer’. This ascent melodramatises the climactic journey to a heaven, an imaginary spa…
Elemental melodrama
Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk’s mid-century saga of a Texas oil dynasty, stands as one of the émigré filmmaker’s best-known works from his string of Hollywood melodramas made in the 1950
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