Author Archives: Lucas Mattila

Welcome to the Blog ~ Winter Term 2022/2023 Edition

Posted on 29. November 2022 by Lucas Mattila

G’day mates! We are a group of HHU students interested in literature and are excited to announce that we are going to contribute blog posts in which we share our thoughts and opinions. In the following three months, our posts … Continue reading →

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The Diverse Short Stories of Rivqa Rafael

Posted on 10. April 2022 by Lucas Mattila

written by Sevgi Osman The author Rivqa Rafael was introduced to me at an event about Jewish Australian Speculative Fiction and since then, I wanted to read some of her short stories. She mainly writes short speculative fiction about queer … Continue reading →

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H20: An Australian Fantasy series

Posted on 9. April 2022 by Lucas Mattila

by Valmire Shala Fantasy is usually understood as a situation that one enjoys thinking about but that is unlikely to happen OR a story or type of literature that describes situations that are very different from real life and more … Continue reading →

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Australian Gothic vs. European Gothic

Posted on 8. February 2022 by Lucas Mattila

by Leonora Rexhi The Gothic is a rather broad genre. There are different versions across the globe. Subcategories are, for example, the Australian Gothic, the European Gothic and the American Gothic. All of them are relatively similar to each other, … Continue reading →

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“Two Somebodies Go Hunting” – Apocalyptic Australia and Disability Representation

Posted on 25. January 2022 by Lucas Mattila

by Theodora Charalambous Intro In this blog post I will be giving you a brief overview of the trope of apocalyptic Australia and then discuss the short apocalyptic story “Two Somebodies Go Hunting” by Rivqa Rafael as well as how … Continue reading →

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Is Gillian Polack‘s The Time of the Ghosts a fairy tale?

Posted on 10. December 2021 by Lucas Mattila

by Nadja Marek, Renee Czyganowski, and Danny Tran If a fairy tale is considered to be a tale about a fairy and since one of the main protagonists in The Time of the Ghosts is a fairy, the simple answer … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Blog ~ Winter Term 2021/2022 Edition

Posted on 23. November 2021 by Lucas Mattila

This winter term, it is time for a new group of HHU English literature students to start blogging. Long time readers do not need to worry, though. Our lecturers, Tina Burger and Lucas Mattila, are still par for the course … Continue reading →

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