Australian Textual Cultures Honours Seminar 4 (English) (ENGL7484)
School of Social and Cultural Studies (School of Humanities) - University of Western Australia
Semester 1, Semester 2 / 2012

Texts

y separately published work icon A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market Martyn Lyons (editor), John Arnold (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2001 Z921361 2001 anthology criticism (taught in 1 units) The first of a series of studies of Australian book production and consumption. The work is organised into four sections: 'Publishing and Printing', 'Bookshops and Libraries' (including histories of small and specialised libraries), 'Genres and Their Place in the Market' and 'Reading' (including accounts of reading groups and societies). Within each grouping are chapters on related subjects, in some cases accompanied by illustrative case studies.
After Post-Colonialism David Carter , 2007 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 66 no. 2 2007; (p. 114-119) 'Examines the current state of Australian literary studies.'
y separately published work icon Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 Craig Munro (editor), Robyn Sheahan-Bright (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1275326 2006 anthology criticism (taught in 3 units) The second of a series of studies of Australian book production and consumption. The work is organised into three sections: 'The Rise of Publishing ', 'Book Business' and 'Reaching Readers'. Within each grouping are chapters on related subjects, in some cases accompanied by illustrative case studies.
Present, not voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon: closing plenary speech, Digital Humanities 2010!$!!$! !$!!$!
Evaluating Digital Scholarship: A Case Study in the Field of Literature!$!Schreibman, Mandell, Olsen.!$! !$!!$!
Responses to 'Ed Folsom's Database as Genre: The Epic transformation of Archives'!$!Freedman, Hayles, Stallybrass et al!$! !$!!$!
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History!$!Burton, Antoinette!$! !$!!$!
Beyond the Colonial Present : Quantitative Analysis, 'Resourceful Reading' and Australian Literary Studies Katherine Bode , 2008 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2008; (p. 184-197) 'The revival in cultural nationalism suggested by current debates about Australian history and literature represents (to borrow from Gillian Whitlock) both a potential pleasure and a danger for Australian literary studies. While the injection of funds augured by this shift in government policy could resuscitate and reinvigorate the discipline, at present, such funds seem to be contingent upon reviving a canonical approach to the teaching and researching of Australian literature. This situation places Australian literary studies at a crossroad. Rather than following the path of least resistance and reinstituting the canon, I advocate a move towards innovation: that is, an extension and realisation of the principles and insights of cultural materialism through quantitative methodologies and resourceful readings, as well as through eResearch more generally. This direction would propel Australian literary studies beyond its current crisis of confidence - by reinvigorating the discipline and offering it renewed institutional, political, social and critical relevance, and alternative funding opportunities - without reinvoking the canon, and hence rejecting the cultural materialism that has shaped and positioned Australian literary studies since the 1980s.' (Author's abstract)
The Decline of the Literary Paradigm in Australian Publishing Mark Davis , 2005 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 (New Series) 2006; (p. 91-108) Making Books : Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007; (p. 116-131) Davis examines the impact of popular fiction on Australian publishing trends during the period 1995-2005.
A History of the Book in Australia Philip Mead , 2009 single work review (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
— Review of A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market 2001 anthology criticism ; Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006 anthology criticism ; Making Books : Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007 anthology criticism
The Book as Computer!$!Stallybrass!$! !$!!$!
Graphs, maps, trees : abstract models for a literary history !$!Moretti, Franco!$! !$!!$!
'Sweeping up the Ashes' : The Politics of Collecting Personal Papers Rachel Buchanan , 2011 single work essay (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2011-January 2012 no. 337 2011; (p. 40-52) 'Rachel Buchanan - recipient of the ABR Sidney Myer Fund Fellowship - investigates the purposes of collecting personal papers in the digital era, and asks whether we should preserve a broader range of archives than we presently do.' (Editor's abstract)
Archive Fever!$!Derrida, Jacques!$! !$!!$!
Archaeology of Knowledge part III!$!Foucault, Michel!$! !$!!$!
'The Library of Robert Carl Sticht'!$!Gaunt, Heather!$! !$!!$!
'From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling' in Moretti (ed.) The Novel (Vol. 1)!$!Goody, Jack!$! !$!!$!
Colonies of the Mind; Republics of Dreams: Australian Publishing Past and Future Richard Flanagan , 2007 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Making Books : Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007; (p. 132-148)
Resourceful Reading : A New Empiricism in the Digital Age? Katherine Bode , Robert Dixon , 2009 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Resourceful Reading : The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture 2009; (p. 1-27)
'The Library and Material Texts!$!Stallybrass, Peter'!$! !$!!$!2004
'Literary Historiography and Beyond' from 'The Soul and the Harpy' in Signs Taken for Wonders !$!Moretti, Franco!$! !$!!$!1988
A Book By Any Other Name? Towards a Social History of the Book in Aboriginal Australia Penny Van Toorn , 2009 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 5-20) Van Toorn traces the development of European book culture and indigenous communication and writing in Australia.
Structures, Networks, Institutions : The New Empiricism, Book History and Literary History David Carter , 2009 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Resourceful Reading : The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture 2009; (p. 31-52) An overview of the different kinds of work on culture that are contained in the term 'the new empiricism'. Carter emphasises the status of the new empiricism as 'post-' rather than 'anti-theoretical'.

Description

Honours study in English and Cultural Studies offers an advanced understanding of literature, writing and culture through sustained and close attention to particular texts, topics and critical and theoretical issues, and the development of research skills (including preparation of research proposals and critical bibliographies, acquisition of research materials and aspects of methodology).

The honours program involves four 6-point honours units and a 24-point honours dissertation; honours can be completed over 12, 18 or 24 months.

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Offered in: 2011, 2009
Current Campus: Crawley
Levels: Undergraduate - Honours
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