What a wonderful closing session we had to day with Ian, Wei, Ben, Jimmy, Rosanna and myself, discussing the themes and ideas in these two powerful stories by two of the world’s best contemporary story tellers: African American Alice Walker and Australian surfer Tim Winton. Listen in to the lecture here: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/3re0teYtVLro_wVO_pEFHXf24Mn41U_6O7wlP-CtIO2KsB3rGoDXNbIZxLOQGspe.j7nC9tPHvl9qtr4I And here is…
Category: Exploring Literature (Clemente)
Short Stories by Kate Chopin and Henry Lawson!
So today is our second week of work on the genre of Prose Fiction and these two authors exemplify a range of techniques and express a variety of themes. Check out our White-Board Discussion file below and listen in to the video lecture that we all enjoyed on Zoom: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/1zX6rvpN10xtJRTm0tD6dvw_edRsGOchid6UNB8CeDCfOs5L2GfKZhrTZV4aOGU.H-lrA_IfSK11zYDR
Lecture on our Art Gallery Visit, linking literary texts to some of the paintings.
This amazing painting by Ford Madox Brown in the mid-19th Century shows the powerful interconnections between literature and art. Here is a depiction of the Father of English Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, reading his wonder Canterbury Tales to the King. And there are all the medieval people around him who might have formed part of his…
Exploring Literature (Clemente), Extra-Mural Teaching, Literature: An Introduction, Literature: An Introduction 2020
Mission Australia/ Clemente/ Art Gallery Visit 8th October 2020: How does understanding the visual arts deepen my understanding of the way literature communicates its experiences, its stories…. ??
Audio Recording of our walk round the gallery: Here are the art works that we explored. Look at these along with the audio above:
Mission Australia, Clemente Introduction to Literature: Poetry
Please find here the link to the Zoom recording of the session on October 1st: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/TMAIrPWiav3Rr5BoufNFo44fYmypAjuTEgw-vWXcu2yXmV985d0yQYYYXglETRfJ.FR6d73cLwkKOzbB_ Please find here also the White Board document for this week:
Clemente Poetry Week 6: Shakespeare, Llewellyn, Kinnell!
Video Lecture of Class on Poetry: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/rxtG-7lPcztIIdUB58AMli4D-YqTNCws58CqvEGbT-saVzxNyHcD1FXhDsM8AgQO.lGCH_bbMnLVrFB-B Poetry Handout for Lectures in Week 6 and 7:
Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 Clemente Week 5 2020
Please find the link to the video lecture for week 5 here: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/IZqtMnraRUk95u0_E0LdMP_gDo_4ouvJnwmw_c-yS8c9hYp_a9EP6Xt8Kxo-zxc.k5cQNRsNejApBvvj You can also find here the study questions document for week 5:
Hamlet for Mission Australia Week 3
Please find the Zoom recording for this week attached, together with other important documents that were circulated in class. Here is the recording: https://acu.zoom.us/rec/share/8uX2EoEwkwwTUZkn8GAxpAD51WirfzLFBuUy9TDXi0c8Js_HqzUCew0J-hfqqmLN.MjW6_zc8WkhFFTZl
Hamlet for Clemente (Mission Australia Students 2020) Week 2.
Please find here the annotated pages from the Shakespeare School Shakespeare which is the set text for these students. You will be able to help your students more effectively if you familiarize yourself with these pages. Each week the relevant documents will be posted here, as will the recordings of their 2 hour class. As…
ENGL104 Clemente Introduction to Literature August 2020
Here are the slides and the recording for this week’s lecture. The recording is a little frustrating to listen to because you will only be able to hear my side of the conversation. From next week I will be posting up the video version of our sessions (with student permission) and you will then be…
Class given to African American Clemente Students In the Centre of Harlem
What a gift this was to be to share my insights on and understanding of Australian Indigenous literature with this passionate, switched-on group of Harlem Clemente students. They were so keen to hear and know about their less well -off brothers and sisters down-under. I shared with them the way that our university supports Indigenous…
Clemente Campbelltown 2018! Final Session: thank you!
Thank you all for being such a wonderful responsive group during the last 12 weeks. Our work together bringing Antony and Cleopatra to life with all your diverse talents will live with me for a long time- and the comments by Bell Shakespeare Company: “a privilege to be invited to come”- will also live with…
Clemente Campbelltown – Prose 2: Tim Winton, George Orwell, Henry Lawson…
Please find here a reading of Tim Winton’s “Sand” together with a class discussion on this amazingly virtuosic prose writer who seems to be able to bend language to the shape of whatever takes his fancy! Enjoy this wonderful class interaction with the students at Campbelltown! Click on each of these images to enlarge them:…
Clemente Campbelltown: Prose 1
Hello All – this is where you can hear last Wednesday’s talk about prose and the requirements for your up and coming take- home exam. Firstly find here a recording of our 2 hour session! Enjoy:
The Merchant of Venice for Clemente Students (and Blog Topics)
Hello All, this week we begin our “serious” professional rehearsals with the Bell Shakespeare Company who are going to help us prepare our scenes for performance on November 1st. Here is the PROMO for our performance- please distribute this to your friends! THE BLOG TOPIC FOR THIS WEEK IS SIMPLY A REVIEW OF YOUR ATTENDANCE…
The Merchant of Venice: Clemente
Today we begin our journey into Venice where Shakespeare has created a fascinating interlocking group of tales that take us into the heart of the conflict between Christianity and Judaism. But this is also a wonderful love story with an almost fairy-tale quality. So this is a complex play, romantic, comic, seriously political and almost…
David Malouf on Campus at Strathfield and at Mission Australia Surry Hills
ACU students both on and off campus had the real privilege today of interacting with David Malouf about The Conversations at Curlow Creek (Strathfield) and Remembering Babylon (Surry Hills). David was wonderfully generous both with his time and his responses and students in both locations were equally wonderful in their thoughtful preparation and deep questioning. Here are…
The Merchant of Venice with Bell Shakespeare and Clemente Students
Please find here the beginning of some useful resources for our study: Bell Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (this is what we are going to see in a few weeks): https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/whats-on/the-merchant-of-venice/ Review of Bell Shakepeare’s production (by the Australian Book Review): https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/4166-the-merchant-of-venice-bell-shakespeare Wikipedia’s overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice Here also is the PDF of the Introduction and Act 1 of The Merchant…
Art Gallery Visit with Clemente Students: How Can Art Inform My Understanding of Literature?
Clemente Visit to the NSW Art Gallery 2017 ENGL104 Core Question: How Can Art Deepen Our Understanding Of Literature? BLOG TOPIC FOR THIS WEEK: Chose any ONE of the paintings (or art works) studied today. Describe the painting (or art work) of your choice and say how this painting (or art work) has expanded your…
David Malouf – Remembering Babylon- again!
Hello All, please find in this blog ALL the recordings from the last two weeks. Here also is the white board image from yesterday’s class: Here are your instructions for getting to the NSW Art Gallery for 2.30pm NEXT WEDNESDAY: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/visit-us/plan-your-visit/getting-here/ See you there next week! Enjoy!
Clemente Blog Addresses Spring 2017
Neil Campbell https://nineteenyearsinsideout.wordpress.com Josh Heilpern https://beinginthecreativezone.wordpress.com Ray Morgan https://raymorganblog.wordpress.com Ronan Parnell https://parnellpoetryoriginals.wordpress.com Adelaide Pascoe https://portamoreweb.wordpress.com Rima Pritchard https://rima309.wordpress.com Kyungshin Song https://kaysongblog.wordpress.com Yvette Whitty https://gingercat310.wordpress.com Patricia https://ninablog548.wordpress.com/ Colin Leong https://colin10100010.wordpress.com
Remembering Babylon Week 2
Hello All, this week we are going to focus on two things in our close study of Remembering Babylon. First we are going to look at Mr Frazer’s relationship to Gemmy in Chapter 14 and especially what it is about Gemmy that Mr Frazer thinks is so valuable. Mr Frazer calls Gemmy “a forerunner” on page…
Heading in to David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon!
This week we are heading into this amazing literary work which is in prose, but is also profoundly poetical! Go to LEO to check out some more information on David Malouf. But here (in the image above) is your blog topic for this week. Notice in the image Gemmy standing on the fence! Remember this…
Blog Topics for Week 5: Alice Walker and Henry Lawson
Class URLS. This will enable you all to easily access each other’s blogs and do your peer review comments on what you see there. Be supportive and share your thoughts on each other’s writing and on the great literature that we are exploring. Please send through to me any URLs that I have missed: Neil…
Clemente Week 4 & 5 Prose: Tim Winton and Kate Chopin
This week our focus is the African American author Alice Walker and her story “Everyday Use” and Henry Lawson’s comic story “The Loaded Dog”. Read these before class if possible. Click on the author’s names to find out more about these two amazing writers. Last week we began to turn our attention to Prose…
Exploring Literature -Clemente Week 3
All the details from today’s class (Week 3) are at the bottom of this page! Enjoy! Hello All, the image above is from a walk into the bush around my place yesterday. These are wax flowers (Eriostomon Australis) here they sit so beautifully against the background of a sandstone cave. The bush is full of…
Exploring Literature Week 2
We began this week’s session by looking at some of the amazing poetry and prose contributions that were made for the Clemente Anthology- Shifting Perspectives. Here are a few of these entries, introduced by the wonderful painting The Last Cuppa which we used on the front cover of the publication. The artist, Chris Barwick, a Mission Australia…
Exploring Literature Week 1
Welcome to all our Clemente students at Mission Australia in Surry Hills. We had a wonderful first class looking at poetry by Margaret Atwood (“You Fit Into Me”), Richard Tipping (“Mangoes”) and Judith Wright (“The Wattle Tree”). It was wonderful to see how quickly this group found ways of discussing both the beauty of the…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2021 
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