Fairy Tales and the Fantastic (3): Fairy Tale Intertextuality and Unstable Binaries in The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R Kiernan
Speaker:
Kelly Brooker is a PhD candidate in the School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her PhD is focussed on the ways in which fairy tale and myth intersect with contemporary writing in carving out alternative spaces. Her research interests include European fairy tale, Poststructuralism, particularly Semiotics and the work Jacques Lacan and French feminist theorist, Hélène Cixous.
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Through the scholarly analysis of many different kinds of cultural products, texts and phenomena, Studies in Culture brings together researchers who seek to understand how the world is understood differently by people coming from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Researchers in this cluster work on literature, film, music, theatre, the visual arts, intangible heritage, testimonies and historical narratives.
Research in Studies in Culture within the School centres around four broad sub-themes of Heritage, memory and trauma studies; Intellectual and cultural history; Literature; and Film and visual cultures.
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