Fashioning the plot: why literature should get back on the catwalk

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Goodall, Jane. 2008. "Fashioning the plot: why literature should get back on the catwalk." HEAT.
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Fashioning the plot: why literature should get back on the catwalk

ERA Journal ID35851
Article CategoryArticle
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AuthorGoodall, Jane
Journal TitleHEAT
Number of Pages14
Year2008
Place of PublicationSydney, Australia
ISSN1326-1460
Web Address (URL)http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/45940
Abstract

The author compares the lady of punk, Vivienne Westwood, fashion and crime fiction. It's tempting to draw up a simple schema around this: fashion is to the crime thriller as clothing is to literary fiction. Yet part of the intrigue in Westwood's approach to design is that, like a good plot, it invites but then confounds a one-dimensional schematic reading.

Keywordsclothing; fiction; crime fiction; attitudes; fashion in art; fashion designers
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020500399. Philosophy not elsewhere classified
470530. Stylistics and textual analysis
470514. Literary theory
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Title ceased 2010.

Byline AffiliationsUniversity of Western Sydney
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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