two new Australian novels reinvent the elegy for an age of climate catastrophe
- Written by Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
A Weeping Woman– Rembrandt (c.1645)Public domainGretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their...
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