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Collaboration, Circulation And The Question Of Counterfeit In The Book Of Jessica, Michael R. Jacklin
Collaboration, Circulation And The Question Of Counterfeit In The Book Of Jessica, Michael R. Jacklin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Suspicion is a requirement of professional reading. As one literary critic explains, reflecting on his own process of becoming a better reader: “I have learned to be more suspicious of narrative, not simply for the sake of suspicion, but because the complexity of what is a text deserves my suspicion. I must be suspicious to be a responsible reader of literature.” There is, then, a tension between a text’s designs to make readers believe and a critic’s need to hold that text at a distance, to question it and to remain suspicious. While this tension between text and reader can …
Turning Up The Heat: Collaboration As A Response To A Chilly Research Climate, Wendy Beck, Kerry Dunne, Josie Fisher, Jane O'Sullivan, Alison Sheridan
Turning Up The Heat: Collaboration As A Response To A Chilly Research Climate, Wendy Beck, Kerry Dunne, Josie Fisher, Jane O'Sullivan, Alison Sheridan
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper characterises the composition and activities of our academic writing group. The group consists of five women of disparate disciplinary backgrounds who meet regularly to present current work and receive constructive comment and encouragement, much of which is motivated and informed by a shared feminist consciousness, an appreciation of the role of collaboration and openness to multidisciplinary work. In these respects, our group comprises a creative response to a 'chilly' higher education environment where the pressures increase to publish or perish, at the same time as we face higher teaching loads and more administration. Different contexts will result in …