Category Archives: Summer 2011

Slow return

Posted on 07/05/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

In the pro­cess of bat­tling my way back to health (read: whole­sale slaughter of bac­teria), there was little time left to read up on vari­ous online blogs & news. Pic­ture my sur­prise then, when upon my return to the great … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Mainstream conspiracy theory?

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Just in time for our read­ing of the Son­nets (and their adja­cent mys­tery of the ded­ic­a­tion, and Mr. W.H., and was Shakespeare gay or not, or maybe not Shakespeare at all?) Roland Emmerich has pub­lished the trail­er for his upcom­ing … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Utterly sad yet utterly typical…

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

The Guard­i­an reports today on the deport­a­tion of Eng­lish chil­dren to Aus­tralia, see­ing as there’s a new movie out, Oranges and Sun­shine, about the Eng­lish social work­er who tracked these events and man­aged to bring the people affected togeth­er. The dis­reg­ard … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Master Mistress of my Passion

Posted on 05/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Twen­ti­eth-cen­tury lan­guage for describ­ing sexu­al beha­viour (and even our tend­ency to pri­or­it­ize sex as a lead­ing human drive) does not fit the beha­viour, or (which is all we have) the rep­res­ent­a­tions of beha­viour of six­teenth-cen­tury males. No one in the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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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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Flash

Posted on 17/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I’m cur­rently beaver­ing through the syl­labus for the con­vict nov­el sem­in­ar, and could­n’t help noti­cing just how much the wiki­pe­dia por­trait of Mar­cus Clarke rep­res­ents that Vic­tori­an bug­bear: the gen­tle­man. Sed­ate, bearded, respect­able, & some­what sombre. I am sure part … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Love through history

Posted on 15/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Well, here we are, the sur­viv­ors of yet anoth­er Valentine’s Day. And Lapham’s Quarterly has decided to bless us with a splen­did essay on the sym­bol­ism of the heart through his­tory, which coin­cid­ent­ally ends up being a his­tory of the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Russians on the screen, Russians in print

Posted on 09/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I just fin­ished watch­ing The Last Sta­tion, the Tol­stoy movie from the sum­mer of 2010, and won­der­ing about screen Rus­si­ans (old style) as opposed to screen Rus­si­ans (new style, i.e. Orlov). In the inter­view from the DVD’s spe­cials, the dir­ect­or … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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