Category: 21st Century Lit

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1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition

by michaelgriffith1 • October 8, 2022 • 0 Comments

England 2023: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in July 2023. Find all the details at the following link: 1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition England 2023 The adventure begins in London on the site where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out in 1390. Next comes Canterbury, with its Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey,…

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Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)

by michaelgriffith1 • June 30, 2022 • 0 Comments

I am retiring after 45 years at ACU. While it certainly sounds a long time, I remember vividly my first days on Castle Hill Campus in 1977 and then the flow of new literature students, through Castle Hill, then Mount Saint Mary and occasionally MacKillop. Every year a wonderful crop of new faces, new enthusiasms!…

21st Century Lit, Twentieth Century Literature ENGL202, x Blogging

The Wonderful World of Blogging in the Twentieth Century Literature Unit for 2020

by michaelgriffith1 • November 13, 2020 • 0 Comments

Congratulations to All of You for Creating such Wonderful Readable Responses to the Wide Range of Questions posted Each Week: Blogging has become a powerful transformative aspect of literary teaching that enables students to not only connect creatively with the energies of the writers that they love, but also to share their own intimate connection…

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Concluding Blog Topics for 20th Century Literature 2020

by michaelgriffith1 • October 8, 2020 • 0 Comments

We have started exploring some of the work of those writers who challenge the tyranny of English culture on their own lives, while at the same time demonstrating their passionate commitment to English as an expressive medium. What a paradox! We have found this in M.Nourbese Philip and now in James Joyce. We are going…

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Some Fabulous Posts from Students working on Twentieth Century Literature in 2020 the year of Covid 19

by michaelgriffith1 • September 19, 2020 • 1 Comment

These students, many of them bound to their home/bedroom offices since March 2020 are working passionately on their literary understanding. These blogs show a heightened creativity in times of crisis and reveal a wonderful range of experiences triggered by their reading of early twentieth century authors. What comes through very strongly is the extent to…

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W.B. Yeats & Virginia Woolf

by michaelgriffith1 • September 16, 2020 • 1 Comment

Blog Topics Emerging from Week 8 and earlier…. Take the first line of any one of Yeats’ poems that has touched your imagination and write a poem of your own based around the theme of Yeats’ poem. This is a wonderful way of developing your own writing ability and was often recommended as the best…

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T.S.Eliot, literary modernism and the quest for meaning.

by michaelgriffith1 • August 22, 2020 • 1 Comment

T.S.Eliot, right from the start of his career was a passionate seeker for truth. This expressed itself in the metaphor of the journey which runs right through his whole work from “Prufrock” through to “The Four Quartets”. What truth was Eliot seeking? He was clearly living at a time of universal fragmentation, immediately after the…

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creativity in time of war

by michaelgriffith1 • August 13, 2020 • 0 Comments

Today we broached the world of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke. The focus was on the way the English language became transformed during this period with the direct impact of the horrors of the First World War. The jingoistic idealism of Rupert Brooke was kicked out by the hard hitting, grating, consonantal observation…

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Celebration of 20th Century Blogs: Century of “Innerness” in Literature and the Arts.

by michaelgriffith1 • November 10, 2018 • 0 Comments

In this unit we explored writers and artists beginning with English Gerard Manley Hopkins right through to Trinidadian M. Nourbese Philip. The focus has been on the way writers and artists in the 20th Century have been trying to use their medium to break through the mirroring surface of things to the depths below, where…

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Some Extraordinary 20th Century Literature Blogs

by michaelgriffith1 • September 24, 2018 • 0 Comments

Please enjoy reading some of these amazing blog entries by students studying 20th Century Literature at ACU. Thank you all for the hard work that has gone into these entries: Thank you Helena for this wonderful re-imagining of Paul Baumer’s letter to the Frenchman’s wife: Click here. Thank you Dhwani for this amazing Hopkins imitation:…

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Brian Friel Faith Healer

by michaelgriffith1 • October 25, 2016 • 0 Comments

This was an amazing play that really does take us into the heart of everything that the twentieth century was about. T.S. Eliot speaks about modern life as one where we are all “distracted from distraction by distraction”. We have seen how Gerard Manley Hopkins challenges the destructiveness, the distractedness of his times as, in…

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BEST ePortfolio/Blogs SPRING 2015

by michaelgriffith1 • November 27, 2015 • 1 Comment

Hello All, I want to share with you this amazing list of the best ePortfolio/blogs produced by ACU students during the second half of 2015. For their ePortfolios they had to showcase their best Creative and Critical Blogs, their Peer Reviews of others in the group, and they had to answer a broad question on…