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2011

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Book Review, Richard Utz And Tom Shippey (Eds), Medievalism And The Modern World: Essays In Honour Of Leslie Workman, Louise D'Arcens Nov 2011

Book Review, Richard Utz And Tom Shippey (Eds), Medievalism And The Modern World: Essays In Honour Of Leslie Workman, Louise D'Arcens

Louise D'Arcens

As an area of enquiry, the academic study of medievalism has seemed constitutionally, and indeed institutionally, marginal. Neither fish nor fowl, its interdisciplinarity has long consigned it in the eyes of many medievalists to the shadowy realm of para-disciplinarity, seemingly doomed to the task of merely commenting on the work of others. In recent years, however, Anglophone medieval studies has witnessed the growing momentum of what might be called a "medievalist turn". The emergence of numerous studies of the historical and political forces buttressing the emergence of the discipline, along with the biographical studies of Helen Damico and Norman Cantor, …


Book Review Of: Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon In World Culture, Brian M. Yecies Nov 2011

Book Review Of: Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon In World Culture, Brian M. Yecies

Dr Brian Yecies

No abstract provided.


Special Issue: Australian Literature In A Global World - Introduction, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva Nov 2011

Special Issue: Australian Literature In A Global World - Introduction, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva

Wenche Ommundsen

This Special Issue of JASAL is based on the 2008 ASAL conference ‘Australian Literature in a Global World’ at the University of Wollongong, the conference theme in turn inspired by an ARC Discovery project, ‘Globalising Australian Literature’, currently conducted by a team of researchers at the same institution. The overall (and hugely ambitious) aim of both conference and research project was to explore the effects, on the national literature, of different aspects of globalisation: transnational flows of people, ideas and cultural forms; globalisation in the publishing and education industries; the global marketplace for cultural production. The papers tap into a …


Journal Of The Association For The Study Of Australian Literature - Australian Literature In A Global World, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva Nov 2011

Journal Of The Association For The Study Of Australian Literature - Australian Literature In A Global World, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva

Wenche Ommundsen

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The World, The Text, And The Tourist: Murray Bail's Homesickness As Guide To The Real, Wenche Ommundsen Nov 2011

The World, The Text, And The Tourist: Murray Bail's Homesickness As Guide To The Real, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

No abstract provided.