Best Blogs ENGL231 Thank you Anaïs Woods for your beautiful summary of the relevance of the indigenous content of this unit and of the power of blogging as a way of creating community: https://anaiswoods.wordpress.com/summative-entry/ Thank you Emily for your understanding of the way that literature can provide a means of deepening our understanding of what…
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Final Blogs for Literature Through Time and Space
There have been some amazing blog entries produced since the middle of semester and some of your summative entries about how you have found studying under the impact of Covid are almost worth putting into an Anthology (might in fact happen!). But overall I was deeply moved by the way in which you contributed to…
Blog 4 ENGL231 – due 25 October
1/ Write a brief appraisal of Judith Beveridge’s visit to our class. What did you learn from her about poetry? Its practice and its purpose? 2/ Chose the first line of any one of Judith Beveridge’s poems and write your own poem on a related subject. 3/ Chose any one of Judith Beveridge’s poems and…
Australian Literature – Second Trawl through BLOGS 2021- Main topic – Students coping with Lockdown…
image courtesy of Francis Saad’s blog (see below) Best blog on the impact of lockdown is Anaïs Woods’ reflections on the appearance of the cherry blossom in spring: https://anaiswoods.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/just-look-up-week-6-blog/ Zahra Salami’s take on the dramas she has had to face during lockdown. Thank you for your open and honest writing Zahra: Sarah Vella’s powerful description…
Literature through Time and Space- Second Blog Trawl…
How students are coping with lockdown- this was a very popular topic and has produced some amazing creative work. Read on! You will also find below some wonderful poems and prose extracts inspired by the likes of Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Aemelia Lanyer and others… Overall a wonderful creative response to the literature we have…
Blog Topics 3 for Australian Literature 2021
We have traversed quite some terrain in the last weeks. Chose one of these topics for your blog this week: 1/ Capture the seasonal quality of the Australia bush (in Spring) in a short poem that utilizes some of the techniques of Charles Harpur’s “A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest”. Maybe begin your poem…
Blog Topics 3 for Literature Through Time and Space
We have been travelling rapidly through both Time and Space. Chose any one of the following topics for your next blog: 1.Try to write a shaped poem like Herbert’s The Altar 2.Chose one of the women represented in the early 17th Century ( Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Mary Cavendish), look at their biographical…
Best Blogs from 2021 Literature through Time and Space Group- First Run
Here is a cross section of some of the wonderfully creative responses to the literature we have been studying from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period (starting with Beowulf) through to the early 17th Century – so far! We are heading on through the Restoration and the 18th Century, into the 19th and on to our own…
Second Blog 2 Topics for Australian Literature 2021 (Due Friday 3rd September)
List of Topics for your second blog: Write a first person account of what it is like studying Australian literature during a global pandemic. Give details of how the pandemic has impacted your work (positively and negatively) and how it has impacted the people who you live with. You can of course fictionalise your characters…
Australian Literature: First Crop of Outstanding Blogs Spring 2021
Read Loulay’s amazing experience of visiting her grandfather in Lebanon and how this memory was triggered by Lisa Bellear’s “Urbanised Reebocks Loulay- https://loulayslovelyliterature.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/my-grandfathers-imprisonment-by-the-frenchlanguage/ Read Anaïs’ passionate response to the racism of the taxi drive in Lisa Bellear’s taxi poem Anaïs Woods: https://anaiswoods.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/facing-the-denial-and-acts-of-racism-taxi-by-lisa-bellear-week-3-blog/ Read Chloe’s powerful entry on Romaine’s Genocide poem with a real understanding of…
Welcome to Blogging in Literature Across Time and Space (ENGL111) at ACU
Hi All, here are the topics for the First Blog of the Semester Chose any of the topics listed below, or create a topic of your own – as long as it is in some way connected to the themes of our unit so far. Remember you are permitted to include personal reflections alongside your…
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…
My review of Jenny’s Blog
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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:…
Protected: Shakespeare Visit to the NSW Art Gallery and to the State Library, 14th April 2021.
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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…
The Wonderful World of Blogging in the Twentieth Century Literature Unit for 2020
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…
Short Stories by Alice Walker and Tim Winton
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…
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…
Concluding Blog Topics for 20th Century Literature 2020
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…
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:
Some Fabulous Posts from Students working on Twentieth Century Literature in 2020 the year of Covid 19
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…
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:
W.B. Yeats & Virginia Woolf
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…
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
T.S.Eliot, literary modernism and the quest for meaning.
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…
creativity in time of war
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…
The Early Twentieth Century
Blog Topics for Week 3 – Based on Weeks One and Two The Early Twentieth Century- Introduction to the 20th Century & Gerard Manley Hopkins Chose any one topic for this week. Be creative, concise and edit your work carefully! Enjoy 1/ Take the first line of any one of Hopkins’ poems and write your…
The Early Twentieth Century
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Blog Topics for Week 3 – Based on Weeks One and Two The Early Twentieth Century- Gerard Manley Hopkins & Joseph Conrad Chose any one topic for this week. Be creative, concise and edit your work carefully! Enjoy 1/ Take the first line of…
Coronavirus perceived through the filter of Hamlet or Ophelia!
Students studying Shakespeare this semester have been asked to write a response to the global situation as perceived by Hamlet or Ophelia. This has led to some extraordinarily creative and heart filled descriptions of global condition from the perspective of our 2020 university students. Enjoy: Thank you Alexandra: https://s00240376.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/to-you-with-love-ophelia/ To you, with love-Ophelia March 15, 2020The…
Recordings for Children’s Literature ENGL104
Audio Recordings for both tutorials on 22nd April 2020- on Racism and Post-Colonialism:
Some great blogs by 19th Century students in their first three weeks of studying the Romantics
Updated my Literature and Life Site.
Hoping you all enjoy this update of my WordPress Web/Blog site. I have now created separate pages for all the various activities in which I am engaged, from University Teaching, through to Extra-Mural (off campus teaching), through to leading contemplative pilgrimages, through to enjoying the wilderness around Sydney. Enjoy all the new content and links…
Top of the Class ePortfolios in The Visionary Imagination ENGL329
A Section of Brett Whiteley’s Alchemy on display at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills Here are the top 9 ePortfolios presented for marking in Visionary Imagination ENGL329- and again indeed it was very hard to pick between them, although the top 2 in the list scored the maximum marks possible. All are outstanding examples…
Top of the Class ePortfolios in American Literature
Here are the top 12 ePortfolios presented for marking in American Literature ENGL204- and indeed it was very hard to pick between them. All are outstanding examples of the art of blogging and of creating an effective ePortfolio in WordPress. More importantly they all demonstate a passionate interest in the way that literature can shape…
The Dry Salvages- 4 Quartets – Session 4
Thank you all for being such wonderful participants in our collaborative exploration of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. We are all now a little wiser and come to this astonishing group of poems with fresh eyes. T.S. Eliot is a poet who brings the spiritual and poetic search for truth a little closer to us all. Despite…
Poetry Workshop 24/11/2019
Hello All, this is where you will find all the materials used in the Workshop held on 24/11/2019. Enjoy! Music and Poetry- in Francis Webb Poems workshopped: Dennis General comments on poems: Commentson9poems Audio Recordings of Key Sessions: Invitation to Pilgrimage June 30- July 13, 2020 Further Details and for Expression of Interest contact: Reho…
East Coker- Four Quartets Session 3
Thank you all for your fabulous participation in our exploration of T.S. Eliot’s East Coker the poem that confirmed for him that he was actually in the process of writing the second of what would become The Four Quartets. Published on Good Friday 1940, just near the start of the Second World War, this poem…
Cream of the Crop for Australian Literature 2019!
Thank you all for some fabulous blogging this semester. It has been a real feast to trawl through your many rich and creative insights into the literature of Australia. So many of you were able to express yourselves freely and openly, giving voice to what concerned you the most and finding ways of expressing your…
The Four Quartets 2: Burnt Norton
We began today’s session by reflecting on some of the key ideas in Burnt Norton, in particular the relevance of the following quotes from from parts III, IV and V of the poem. These summarize Eliot’s view of the modern human condition and also his aspiration towards a different quality of Being. You can hear…
William Blake- Grand Finale
Today was the day that our illustrious group of students put their bodies, hearts and souls into dramatizing aspects of William Blake’s life and work. It was a wonderful display of how Blake’s ideas and life stories have touched the hearts of these young students. Their environmentalism, their concern for social justice and their care…
Francis Webb and David Malouf
This week we are exploring the work of two writers who in their own ways are committed to the sacred dimension of life and who are also environmentalists. Please look through the following slides to get an idea of the ground that will be covered in lectures and tutorials this week. FrancisWebb & Malouf 2019…
Robert Frost and Robert Lowell 2019
Two Roberts- Frost and Lowell This week we are exploring the contrasting worlds of Robert Frost and Robert Lowell, two iconic poets of North America who have done so much to “Sing America” in the Twentieth Century. Robert Frost, inheritor of the transcendentalists and of the energy of Walt Whitman, powerfully expresses his deep love for the American landscape…
American Literature Week 11
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The Beats & Postmodernism
I hope you have enjoyed exploring, interrogating this group of poets and artists. Perhaps top of the list, in my estimation, comes Patti Smith who gigantically carries forward the subversive, passionate impulse of Ginsberg, Kerouac, O’Hara and Ashberry. Here she is singing her heart out, challenging all the heartless stereotypes that infect contemporary America: https://youtu.be/LNnC8hYOmlw Blog…
American Literature, Australian Literature, Oz Lit, Visionary Blake, Visionary Imagination, William Blake, x Blogging
Sacred Silence in Literature and the Arts
ACU students are welcome to attend this event for free on presentation of their student ID on the day. Come and be enlightened as never before and enjoy the company and the good food. You can find the full program details right here: Sacred Literature Conference Program Final
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