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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities
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The English Men [2nd edition titled The Enchantment of English] is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified. [from Trove]

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Alternative title: The Enchantment of English : Professing English Literatures in Australian Universities
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Sydney University Press , 2012 .
      Extent: 356p.
      Edition info: Second edition.
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      • Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-338) and index.
      ISBN: 9781920899721 (paperback)
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Teaching and Professing English in Western Australia : Acknowledging the Anglophilia and Democratic Ideals of a Figure That Shaped the Discipline Patricia Dowsett , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 23-24, 255) 'British or English-trained professors were the central figures responsible for tertiary education and matriculation in Western Australia, and the "Englishness" limited the teaching of Australian literature at the tertiary and secondary levels in the first half of the twentieth century. Dowsett examines teaching and professing English in Western Australia that is influenced by Walter Murdoch, an English professor at the University of Western Australia.' (Publication summary)
What We Have to Work With : Teaching Australian Literature in the Contemporary Context Philip Mead , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 52-69) 'I would like to explore some aspects of the experience of literary knowledge, amongst and between teachers and students, as reported in the 2010 Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project Australian Literature Teaching Survey. This exploration is framed by the contexts of that survey, particularly the history of 'English' in Australian education and its evolution, in the second half of the twentieth century, to include the study of Australian literature (see Dale, 1997; Reid, 1988) and recent responses to a federal government led proposal for a national or 'Australian' curriculum (K-12), which includes Australian literature within the proposed English strand. These reflections on the issues and questions that came out of the work of the ALTC report are influenced by my understanding of the disciplinary history of tertiary literary studies and of literary education at the secondary level, as well as by my own experiences of teaching literature within those educational and institutional contexts. These reflections are also informed by studies of English pedagogy that aim to pay attention to the lifeworlds of students and teachers and their experiences in the classroom (like Doecke and Parr, 2008).' (Author's introduction, 52)
‘A Heart That Could be Strong and True’ : Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright as Queer Interior Monique Rooney , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-15) 'In ' "A heart that could be strong and true": Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright as queer interior' Monique Rooney presents a compelling reading of the complicated relations between self and other, interior and exterior, in the iconic, troubling text of Wake in Fright. Her discussion focuses on the play of aurality and lyricism in the novel's account of outsider relations, and proposes a reading that draws on Michael Snediker's 'emphasis on a potentially joyful Freud' in classic accounts of queer melancholy in order to attend to what she determines is a 'critique of processes of masculinist dis-identification' in the novel. This important discussion works to reanimate critical consideration not only of a significant and neglected text, but also of broader debates around the reach and nature of metropolitan subjectivities in post- WWII literature in Australia.' (Source: Introduction : Archive Madness, p. 3)
Seen Through Other Eyes : Reconstructing Australian Literature in India Paul Sharrad , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 10 2010; 'Based on bibliographic surveys and interviews with students and teachers of Australian Literature in India, the paper assesses differences of context and reception overseas and how this reshapes meanings and forms of canons and fields as national literary constructs enter transnational networks.' (Author's abstract)
Medievallism and Memory Work : Archer's Folly and the Gothic Revival Pile Jenna Mead , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture 2006; (p. 99-118) Jenna Mead analyses the relationship between medievalism and memory in a reading of 'two of medievalism's afterlives. [The] first sifts together two medieval towers [in Tasmania] and the sparse and ephemeral historical documents pertaining to one moment in the history of those towers; [the] second reads three documents in what might be called the history of literary studies in Australia and, more narrowly, that history as it focuses on medieval literary studies' (101).
Untitled Harry Payne Heseltine , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 18 no. 2 1997; (p. 195-198)
— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism ; The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
Mere Chatter? David Matthews , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 192 1997; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
Preserving the Heritage Rosemary Sorensen , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 August 1997; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
Professing English in Australia Ralph Elliott , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 August 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
Untitled Kieran Dolin , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 130-134)
— Review of The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
Medievallism and Memory Work : Archer's Folly and the Gothic Revival Pile Jenna Mead , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture 2006; (p. 99-118) Jenna Mead analyses the relationship between medievalism and memory in a reading of 'two of medievalism's afterlives. [The] first sifts together two medieval towers [in Tasmania] and the sparse and ephemeral historical documents pertaining to one moment in the history of those towers; [the] second reads three documents in what might be called the history of literary studies in Australia and, more narrowly, that history as it focuses on medieval literary studies' (101).
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).
Seen Through Other Eyes : Reconstructing Australian Literature in India Paul Sharrad , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 10 2010; 'Based on bibliographic surveys and interviews with students and teachers of Australian Literature in India, the paper assesses differences of context and reception overseas and how this reshapes meanings and forms of canons and fields as national literary constructs enter transnational networks.' (Author's abstract)
‘A Heart That Could be Strong and True’ : Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright as Queer Interior Monique Rooney , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-15) 'In ' "A heart that could be strong and true": Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright as queer interior' Monique Rooney presents a compelling reading of the complicated relations between self and other, interior and exterior, in the iconic, troubling text of Wake in Fright. Her discussion focuses on the play of aurality and lyricism in the novel's account of outsider relations, and proposes a reading that draws on Michael Snediker's 'emphasis on a potentially joyful Freud' in classic accounts of queer melancholy in order to attend to what she determines is a 'critique of processes of masculinist dis-identification' in the novel. This important discussion works to reanimate critical consideration not only of a significant and neglected text, but also of broader debates around the reach and nature of metropolitan subjectivities in post- WWII literature in Australia.' (Source: Introduction : Archive Madness, p. 3)
What We Have to Work With : Teaching Australian Literature in the Contemporary Context Philip Mead , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 52-69) 'I would like to explore some aspects of the experience of literary knowledge, amongst and between teachers and students, as reported in the 2010 Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project Australian Literature Teaching Survey. This exploration is framed by the contexts of that survey, particularly the history of 'English' in Australian education and its evolution, in the second half of the twentieth century, to include the study of Australian literature (see Dale, 1997; Reid, 1988) and recent responses to a federal government led proposal for a national or 'Australian' curriculum (K-12), which includes Australian literature within the proposed English strand. These reflections on the issues and questions that came out of the work of the ALTC report are influenced by my understanding of the disciplinary history of tertiary literary studies and of literary education at the secondary level, as well as by my own experiences of teaching literature within those educational and institutional contexts. These reflections are also informed by studies of English pedagogy that aim to pay attention to the lifeworlds of students and teachers and their experiences in the classroom (like Doecke and Parr, 2008).' (Author's introduction, 52)
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