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!…
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Best Final Summative Blogs for Nineteenth Century Literature 2022
Hi All, it is with some real joy that I can post up these final blogs from one of my last two classes (the other being The Age of Shakespeare). These summative entries proclaim loud and clear that the experience of blogging as part of literature studies has profoundly enhanced our students’ experience of literature.…
Nineteenth Century Blogs Fourth and Final Topics: Week 10
Please remember that you are permitted to create your own blog topics on subjects related to what we have been studying – if these topics don’t suit! Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Illych Tolstoy brings us to one of the high points of 19th Century Literature. He explores with such uncompromising depth, issues of profound human…
Blog 3 Topics for Nineteenth Century Literature- due due Friday 29th April: extended to Monday 1st May
Choose any ONE of the following topics: 1/How do the opening paragraphs of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry present a view that poetry could solve The Condition of England Question? 2/What makes Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” such a personal response to the loss of belief in Victorian England? 3/Prepare a digital kit on…
Second Blog Topics for 19thC Literature 2022
Second Blogs Topics for ENGL200 Nineteenth Century Literature 1/ Chose any one of the paintings you examined at the gallery yesterday. Copy an image of the painting and include it in your blog. Then describe the painting in detail and say how this painting has amplified your understanding of an aspect of 19th Century Literature.…
First Blog Topics for 19th Century Literature 2022
Try to stick close to the word length (i.e. 200 words + 50%). While you won’t be penalised for going over the limit you will only get marked on the permitted length. If possible illustrate your blogs (with images either your own or those available on Google), but be sure to identify the source of…
Grand Finalé for Nineteenth Century ePortfolios for 2021.
Best ePortfolio Summative Entries ENGL200 2021 Andrew Carloss Read Andrew’s fabulous reflection and powerfully illustrated piece on how we in this digital age need to take on board the insights of the Romantics and the Russians in order to survive as human beings! Read Emilee McNaught’s reflections on how her experience is mirrored in the…
Best Blogs 19th Century Literature 2021- Round 1!
Excellent Peer Reviews: It will be noted that reviews that suggest improvement are well received and have in fact led to improvement in subsequent blogs. Allow some space for your peer to improve- no one’s work is perfect! An excellent peer review, that combines support, insight and gentle recommendations for improvement= thank you Sarah Saud:…
Blog 3 Nineteenth Century Literature Week 8 2021
Victorianism Thomas Carlyle the great Victorian historian, close friend of Charles Dickens wrote these wonderful words which have been carved in stone in the foyer to the Mitchell ( State Library) in Sydney. For those of us studying Romanticism, Charles Dickens and Victorianism, these words have a special resonance. They remind us (in this forgetful digital age) of how important…
The Late Romantic Period: Blog Topics for your Second Blog (includes NSW Art Gallery Visit)
Take this opportunity to write about something that has really touched your imagination in the last few weeks, or that has ignited your interest in our visit to the Romantic and Victorian Halls of the NSW Art Gallery on April 14th. Remember you are permitted to create your own topic as long as it falls…
The Early Romantic Period: Blog Topics for your first blog.
Chose any ONE of the topics below: 1 Following on from William Wordsworth’s poems, describe an experience in nature that has given you a sense of meaning that is beyond books. Write down your experience either as a poem or as a prose passage- your choice! 2 Find out some more about the monastery Tintern…