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…
Welcome to Blogging in Australian Literature 2021 (Unit ENGL231 at ACU)
Hi All, 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 literary reflections or creations. But you must try to write as…
The Bush around the top end of Sydney on August 8th 2021.
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:…
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…
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…
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:
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
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…
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…
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…
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
Originally posted on Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025:
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…
Best Blogs from 19th Century Literature 2020
Overall, an amazing feast of student talent in reflecting on how 19th Century Literature can shed so much light on core issues of human experience in the 21st Century. Thank you All!! Here is one student Alicia Ticchio reflecting on her semester, writing during the Covid 19 Pandemic, when all studies were on-line using Zoom…
The Importance of Being Earnest 2020
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…
The Scholar Gypsy Tutorial
Recordings for Children’s Literature ENGL104
Audio Recordings for both tutorials on 22nd April 2020- on Racism and Post-Colonialism:
The Winter’s Tale 2020
This is one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays that brings into focus the talent that enabled him to show the world how art could be redemptive. This is the story of chaos created by human emotions (jealousy in particular here) and the way that art can be an agent in resolving some of the pain created…
NSW ART GALLERY VISIT TO RENAISSANCE ROOMS.
Please find audio files for the talk in the Renaissance Rooms. Please also find the images in the file immediately following.
The Victorian Age
Today we began exploring the period between 1837 and 1901. This was a time of huge industrial expansion and a widening rift between those who had everything and those who had nothing. This lecture explores the way these concerns was expressed in the literature of the age. Audio Recording: Lecture for Week 8: Audio: NEW…
Art Gallery of NSW “Virtual” tour of Enlightenment/ Romantic/ Victorian Art and its links with Literature of the Age.
Hello All, here you can find the slides we used for our Zoom lecture (available in LEO) and you can also find an audio version of the same lecture (in 2 parts) – enjoy! In the tutorial this week we looked closely at the way Shelley, both in his poetry and his prose exemplified the…
State Library and Shakespeare Room “Virtual” Visit
Blog Topics for week 5 You are welcome to create your own topic centring on any aspect of our visit to the State Library. Here are a couple of additional topics :*What impression did you get of the importance of Shakespeare to Australia from our visit to the State Library? *Write a short poem in tribute to…
Some great blogs by 19th Century students in their first three weeks of studying the Romantics
Link for Zoom- sessions and coffee…
Clemente Surry Hills 2020 Lecture week 3
Hello all, Here is the fabulous Zoom Tutorial that we had on Hamlet this week. Wow, so much covered and such great ideas based on your observations of the play last week. How lucky were we to get into the theatre before everything shut down. We can now spend our time studying and preparing for…
The Romantics Week 4
Here you will find the lectures in video and audio sections. Enjoy the poems and your time with them! Let me know what is working for you and what is not. This is really important.
Hamlet Lecture Week 4
Hello All, well this is the beginning of our totally on-line teaching for Shakespeare. And we begin with a short video (myself lecturing you from home) and from there we will turn to audio focussing more closely on the key sections of the play. Having worked through all these pieces, keep your ears and eyes…
ENGL104 Week 2: Introductions and Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Opera House!
Today we began with introductions from everyone in the class. So great to meet you all: Stephen, Patricia, Mei(Wei?), Glen, Ken, Alan, Brendan, Branko, Benjamin, Gretta, Ian, David, Michael, Jimmy and Bert! From there we went into a brief introduction to the difference between the three main genres of literature: drama, poetry and prose. From…
Week 3 Shakespeare Audio
This week the lecture moved from a consideration of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 and its relevance to Hamlet through to a survey of how the language of drama is a very specific literary genre and how, in the case of Shakespeare, it embraces ALL the genres. Enjoy! First Blog Topic- Questions: 1/Post a review of your…
ENGL200 Week 3- Unacknowledged Legislators Part 3- Audio.
Please find the audios for this week’s classes right here:
ENGL104 Lecture Week 1
Thank you Jess for taking this lecture! Students had a great time working through some of the texts in the workbook with you and being introduced to the language of the theatre. They began to understand terms like mise-en-scene and the ways in which the language of the theatre is language with many bells and…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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