Source https://visual.artshub.com.au On the 1st of July this year Australian’s were blessed with yet another pseudo inspirational and seemingly insightful speech, by one of the multitude of well meaning middle aged white male representatives, as Mr David Hurley became our 27th Governor General. He spoke of David Malouf’s famous but slightly dated comment from 1979 …
Category Archives: ENGL102: Australian Literature
Peer Review 4
Abby Aaron- Write a description on Voss based on your own understanding of the text Abby your summary of Voss is articulate and comprehensive. The succinct nature of your review is commendable given the word limit you have managed to summarise the story well, capturing the spirit of the novel. I particularly like your analysis …
Peer Review 3
Caitlin Burke- Critically discuss how Patrick White comments on relationship dynamics and the uprising of a feminist movement in the 1960s in his short story “Miss. Slattery And Her Demon Lover”? Fantastic blog topic Caitlin!! I also read this story as one of fantastic social and relational commentary. I similarly wrote a creative letter on …
Dear Mr White
Write a letter to Miss Slattery telling her what you think about the decision she made to leave Szabo. GETTY IMAGES Dear Mr White I feel compelled to write to you to express how moved I was by your story “Miss Slattery and her demon lover”. This story has left a profound mark on me …
Thoughts on Pam Browns “At the Wall” and current political events
Source: The Guardian Australia “Will anyone ever agitate again? When will they occupy the privatised academies?” This last week we read the sarcastic and scathing social commentary poem of Pam Brown “At the Wall” and the irony of this being an assigned reading in the week of the largest climate protests the world has ever …
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Peer Review 1
Chikuru Malula Critical- Write a short paragraph on why you think the Garma Festival is so important to indigenous culture today. Thank you for such an informative blog posting Chikuru. I really enjoyed your systematic and objective style of writing. It was easy to read and makes the festival sound very exciting and well organised. …
Peer Review 2
Reviewing: Jesse Owad CRITICAL – What does A.D. Hope’s poem Australia (written half a century after the 1890s) add to the debate on what is Australia? Jesse, this is a wonderful analysis of Hopes writing in general as well as his overall attitude and perspective in life. Having not read his works myself yet I was …
Dear Mr Cook
Creative: Write an imaginary conversation you are having either with one of the artists that you looked at yesterday or one of the characters that you saw in one of the paintings. The English Channel-2015 Michael Parekowhai Photo by Emily Baker 26.8.19 Dear Mr Cook, I just have one question; are you proud? Sitting here …
Patterson VS Lawson, and the Australian identity.
After reading these two authors this week I have spent a lot of time considering the links between their writing and the idea of the Australian experience and identity. With Patterson’s romanticised, rugged bush tales and the mythology he created against the doomsday, socialist, urban tales of woe, Lawson weaved. Due to my limited word restrictions and the …
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Nostalgia’s Embrace
CREATIVE– Which poem or story that we have looked at so far made an impression on you? What was the impression it made? Can you imitate the poem or story and create your own poem or story drawing on your own personal experience. This week I have been quite intrigued by both the clear descriptive …
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