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Author David Kelly

David Kelly

Dr David Kelly is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Sydney University. He is the author of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1994) and the co-editor of Futur*Fall: Excursions into Post-Modernity (1986). His essays have appeared in books including The Illusion of Life (1991) and The Error of My Ways (1996) and in journals including Art & Text, mETAphor and Sydney Studies in English.

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Oedipus at Los Angeles: Hitch and the Tragic Muse

David Kelly
January 2003
Alfred Hitchcock
An exploration of the 'tragic' in modern art by way of Hitchcock's evocation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in Rope.
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The Lady in the Frame: Two Portraits by Henry James and Jane Campion

David Kelly
December 2001
Film and the Other Arts
A careful and thought-provoking examination of Campion's adaptation in The Portrait of a Lady.

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