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  • An undeclared schism: Higher and secondary learning about poetry

    • Authors: Mary Weaven; Tom Clark (2014)

  • This article discusses findings from two qualitative studies in which the authors explored attitudes towards poetry. One was a participant-centred research project with senior secondary English teachers at a state school in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The other was an interview-based study involving undergraduate students of education specializing in literary studies. Compared, the two studies reveal great disparity between an ongoing structural decline in secondary poetry studies and its ongoing prominence in higher education.
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  • Anxieties of Influence: recursion and occlusion in Noel Pearson’s ‘Eulogy’ for Gough Whitlam

    • Authors: Tom Clark (2018)

  • Harold Bloom’s 1973 essay The Anxiety of Influence posits a poetics of ‘great poets’ who use and deny the prototype-poets and prototype-texts that influence them. Bloom’s understandings of poetic composition and reception offer a strikingly sympathetic account of much political discourse. This article focuses on the ‘Eulogy’ that Noel Pearson delivered at the funeral for Gough Whitlam in 2014, whose poetics were conspicuously informed by motives of emulation and of competitive distancing. That makes Pearson’s eulogy a particularly helpful case for testing the applicability of Bloom’s poetics in the political sphere. It also casts new light on the interrelationship between production a...
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  • Plenitude: values for a journal that speaks to language, literature, and culture studies

    • Authors: Tom Clark; Rose Lucas; Emily Palmer (2020)

  • This is a ‘research editorial.’ It expounds the curatorial values that inform editing decisions for the Journal of Language Literature and Culture in 2020, setting them in a context of current scholarly debates and culture. Its main contribution to knowledge is also the JLLC’s main contribution: to embody the active recognition of the importance of a plenary function for journals such as this one. The article frames scholarly practices as balancing a value or ethos of plenitude against the alternative norms of scholarly specialisation, where each function is critical to the viability of the whole. Within that balance, a journal such as JLLC is needed for its capacity to convene schola...