Louise D'Arcens Louise D'Arcens i(A101063 works by)
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1 The Impact of Literature Louise D'Arcens , Leigh Dale , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 31 no. 1 2016; (p. 1-12) 'The article discusses issues related to effects of research quality measurement in to consider methods in which the discipline of literary studies is affected by research quality measurement. Topics ddiscussedinclude how scholarship in literary studies can make a difference beyond universities, higher education system and the privilege of a university education, and value for money in research expenditure than in terms of competition within and between universities.' (Publication abstract)
1 Mad Monks and the Order of the Tin Ear : The Medievalism of Abbott's Australia Louise D'Arcens , Clare Monagle , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 74 no. 4 2015; (p. 106-113) 'The Middle Ages have had a lot of bad publicity lately.' (Abstract)
1 The Impact of Literature Leigh Dale , Louise D'Arcens , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 28 no. 4 2013; (p. 1-12)
1 Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia Chris Jones , Louise D'Arcens , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Representations , Winter vol. 121 no. 1 2013; (p. 85-106)

'Comparing nineteenth-century British and Australian Anglo-Saxonist literature enables a “decentered” exploration of Anglo-Saxonism’s intersections with national, imperial, and colonial discourses, challenging assumptions that this discourse was an uncritical vehicle of English nationalism and British manifest destiny. Far from reflecting a stable imperial center, evocations of “ancient Englishness” in British literature were polyvalent and self-contesting, while in Australian literature they offered a response to colonization and emerging knowledge about the vast age of Indigenous Australian cultures.' (Authors abstract)
1 Meta-Medievalism and the Future of the Past in the 'Australian Girl' Novel Louise D'Arcens , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 69-85) Australian Literary Studies , vol. 31 no. 1 2016; (p. 69-85)

'Through an examination of works by four late nineteenth-century women writers ... which explores their differing intersections with medievalism as a temporal discourse, this essay will discuss the discourse's unique capacity to probe colonial gender and colonial ideologies via its oscillation between premodernity and modernity' (p.70).
1 Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism : Introduction Louise D'Arcens , Stephanie Trigg , Andrew Lynch , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 1-5)
1 y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies vol. 26 no. 3-4 October - November Louise D'Arcens (editor), Stephanie Trigg (editor), Andrew Lynch (editor), 2011 Z1877038 2011 periodical issue Special issue based on papers presented at the symposium 'Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism' held at the University of Wollongong, January 2010.
1 1 y separately published work icon Old Songs in the Timeless Land : Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910 Louise D'Arcens , Belgium : Brepols , 2011 Z1832763 2011 selected work criticism 'This volume is the first close examination of the rich and diverse body of medievalist texts produced in late colonial and early Federal (ie post-1901) Australia. It examines the many ways in which early Australian novelists, poets, and dramatists drew on the motifs, events, and personages of the medieval past, and places particular emphasis on how they used the European past to illuminate their sense of the Australian present. Broadly stated, the book argues that a study of early Australian medievalist literature and theatre uncovers a rich and revealing drama in which the forces of cultural nostalgia and cultural amnesia sometimes contended against one another, and sometimes harmonised, to produce a unique and distinctive corpus. The book significantly extends current knowledge about nineteenth-century literary and theatrical medievalism by offering an exploration of how medievalist discourses and idioms came to be taken up within a major, but as yet under-examined, branch of Anglophone literature. It aims also to broaden the cultural ambit of nineteenth-century medievalism by offering analyses of popular and ephemeral instances alongside more 'serious' medievalist texts. The study balances an interest in how this medievalism responded to local conditions with an interest in its international complexion, examining how Australian medievalist novels, poems, and plays, participated in imperial and transpacific intellectual and entertainment circuits. While the emphasis of the volume is on close, historically-contextualising interpretations of texts, it has woven through its arguments a series of meditations on such theoretical matters as how we determine the boundaries of medievalism, how we might develop an account of colonial medievalism as non-derivative, whether medievalist discourses are equally amenable across gender, class, and ideological lines, and how the premodern past is evoked as a means for formulating the present and the future.' (Source: Breppols Publishers website, www.brepols.net)
1 'Femmes a part' : Unsociable Sociability, Women, Lifewriting Louise D'Arcens , Anne Collett , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting 2010; (p. 1-17)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Anne Collett (editor), Louise D'Arcens (editor), Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 Z1743469 2010 anthology criticism This collection of essays applies the concept of 'unsocial sociability' (traced in the anthology's introduction through the work of Kant, Montaigne and Rousseau) to a wide range of women's lifewriting texts. 'With its cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective, the volume makes a distinctive contribution to current debates on women's lifewriting. Its emphasis on unsocial sociability offers a timely, provocative response to the established notion of the female self as a relational subject.' [Back cover]
1 Most Gentle Indeed but Most Virile : The Pacifist Medievalism of G. A. Wood Louise D'Arcens , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World : The Idea of 'The Middle Ages' outside Europe 2009; (p. 80-108)
1 'The Past is Another Country' : Forms of Australian Medievalism Louise D'Arcens , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Revista de poética medieval , no. 21 2008; (p. 319-356)
1 Untitled Louise D'Arcens , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Theatre Research International , no. 32 2007; (p. 336-337)
— Review of Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage : 1834-1899 2006 anthology drama
1 'Where No Knight in Armour Has Ever Trod' : The Arthurianism of Jessica Anderson's Heroines Louise D'Arcens , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture 2006; (p. 61-80) Louise D'Arcens examines the differences in the way two heroines from novels by Jessica Anderson read Arthurian legends. She suggests that 'the transition between the two heroines' medievalisms reflects the changing significance of the Middle Ages as an imaginative prism through which Australian experience has been refracted. The development they embody [...] is an index of Australia's transition from colonial dependency at the beginning of the twentieth century to cultural autonomy and sovereignty a the century's end' (62-63).
1 Andrew McGahan Louise D'Arcens , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers 1975-2000 2006; (p. 226-230)
1 Inverse Invasions : Medievalism and Colonialism in Rolf Boldrewood's 'A Sydney-Side Saxon' Louise D'Arcens , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Parergon , Summer vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 159-182) 'Rolf Boldrewood's forgotten 1894 novel, A Sydney-Side Saxon, merits reexamination as a fascinating nineteenth-century medievalist vision of Australian national identity. The novel's vision of pastoral Australia depends on idiosyncratic notions of Saxon and Norman ethnicity derived from Scott's Ivanhoe. While Scott's portrait of post-conquest England dramatizes the ethnic and political conflict between Norman conquerors and subjected Saxons, Boldrewood consistently presents Norman and Saxons as two complementary sides of an English 'type' that is perfectly fitted to achieve the colonial settlement of Australia. Boldrewood's racialized vision of England's medieval past informs not only his novel's celebration of colonial meritocracy in Australia, but also its apologia for colonial violence and indigenous dispossession. As in Ivanhoe, however, the dispossessed Others of Boldrewood's novel continue to haunt the margins of its narrative.' - Author's abstract
1 Antipodean Idylls : An Early Australian Translation of Tennyson's Medievalism Louise D'Arcens , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Moves : Medieval through Modern 2003; (p. 237-256) Louise D'Arcens discusses Woolley's lecture on Tennyson's Idylls of the King as 'a vehicle for exploring cultural life in the "young and uncemented" society of the antipodean colony.' D'Arcens writes that 'Woolley's reading of the Idylls provides a fascinating insight into how the Middle Ages could be reinterpreted to characterize Australia's - and especially Sydney's - nascent colonial identity in the mid-nineteenth century' (238).
1 Europe in the Antipodes: Australian Medieval Studies Louise D'Arcens , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalism and the Academy II : Cultural Studies 2000; (p. 13-40)
1 From Holy War to Border Skirmish : The Colonial Chivalry of Sydney's First Professors Louise D'Arcens , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , vol. 30 no. 3 2000; (p. 519-545) Louise D'Arcens suggests that 'medievalism in nineteenth-century Sydney University was a culturally divided phenomenon, a discipline whose internal conflicts presaged the struggle between Anglocentrism and cosmopolitanism that was to mark Australian culture for decades to come' (p 540).
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