Monthly Archives: March 2011

Marcus Clarke, again

Posted on 24/03/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I came across a fas­cin­at­ing post this morn­ing, show­ing the film­ing of Mar­cus Clarke’s For the Term of His Nat­ur­al Life in 1926 includ­ing a kangaroo brought onto the set. To add some Aus­trali­an feel… I’m sure that’s exactly what we’re … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Spatial turn

Posted on 14/03/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I haven’t pos­ted for a while, being busy with course pre­par­a­tions, cor­rec­tions, and the writ­ing of my EACLALS con­fer­ence paper on the rep­res­ent­a­tion of Tas­mani­an spaces in con­vict nov­els. (BTW: I prom­ised an update on the GNEL con­fer­ence in Han­over? … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Love’s Function

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Here’s a poem by E.E. Cum­mings I would have loved to include in the com­ing ter­m’s course read­er but could­n’t … but which I con­sider one of my favour­ites! Love’s func­tion is to fab­ric­ate unknown­ness (known being wish­less but love … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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