This thesis analyses the representation of adolescent girls' friendships in Australian young adult fiction. Through Deleuzean philosophy, the relationships between girls are read as spaces of empowering and unbounded passions which defy binarised distinctions and categorisations. The analysis of these fictional relationships disentangles desire from psychoanalytic lack and uncovers its productivity
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Submitted to the School of Communication and Creative Arts of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 318-335)
