Romanticism
Articles
- Conceptual Poetry, Nonconceptual Poetry, Postconceptual Poetry
'In the Anthropocene, collective human action has acquired the scale of a planetary geological force. The Anthropocene concept impels the rethinking of many assumptions and…
1 October 2013 - Charles Harpur and the Myth of Origins
Argues that 'Harpur's drive for historical preeminence gets displaced into considerations of chronology, and that, ultimately, this reveals a Romantic preoccupation with poetic origins'.
1 October 1987 - The Ayers Rock Experience: Reading to Recuperate the Lost in David Malouf’s ‘Mrs Porter and the Rock’
Discusses Romantic transcendentalism in Malouf's writing, arguing that 'Malouf's sometimes ironic Romanticism combines with his postcolonialism to question Enlightenment and colonialist assumptions His postcolonial interest…
1 May 2011 - ‘By What Sign / Are You Walking?’: The Poetry of Judith Rodriguez
Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and…
1 October 1997 - Textual Phantasmagoria: Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny
McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination—the intersection of affect and aesthetics—in the writing of Marcus Clarke.
1 October 2003 - Brunton Stephens as Literary Critic
JAMES Brunton Stephens (1835-1902) is mainly and correctly remembered as a poet; as a name his lustre in Australian literature is somewhat dulled by the…
1 December 1965 - William Howitt, Australia and the ‘Green Language’
"It is clear that for William Howitt the literary landscaped view is indeed a learned model, and so he readily applies this Arcadian precept to…
1 November 2014