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ItemExplorations in creative writing(Melbourne University Press, 2003)
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ItemMedieval English Poetry( 1993)
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ItemWynnere and Wastoure(Oxford University Press, 1990)
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ItemMarxism and literary history(Harvard University Press, 1986)In this book I try to theorize the concepts of system and history for a Marxist theory of literary discourse. This theorization is conceived as part of a semiotically oriented intervention in cultural politics. I am not interested in producing a general Marxist theory of literature or in contributing to an aesthetics; and I do not attempt a philosophical purification of these categories. They are difficult categories and I seek to make them more so; but the point is to make them fit tools for critical and political uses. I use the concept of system in the sense of a nontotalized formation which sets epistemological and practical limits to discourse, and which is thereby productive of discourse; it does not have here its speculative or its systems-theoretical sense of a closed and self-regulating totality. In addition, I seek consistently to deploy the concept in counterpoint to its ongoing deconstruction. In the same way, the concept of history does not carry the sense of an enfolding narrative continuum or of the given ground of human action. It is used to theorize the discontinuous, nonteleological dynamic of the literary system and the multiple temporalities of texts within complex sets of intertextual relations. The theoretical framework and intent of the book is a nondogmatic and nonorthodox Marxism which I hope will require no apology. I work within an antihumanist, antihistoricist, and anti-Hegelian tradition, but am also intellectually close to the post-structuralism of Foucault and Derrida. The interplay and sometimes the strain between these traditions will be evident (I hope fruitfully) throughout the book.
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ItemSitings and soundings(Southgate and Scienceworks, 1994)Catalogue essay for Big River: Soundings on the Lower Yarra, a collaborative exhibition between Vivienne Mehes (photography), jeltje (poetry), Zane Trow (music) and Jenny Lee (historian). Big River uses images, sound and text to illuminate the landscape of the lower Yarra and reflect on that landscape's meanings to the people who live and work around it. The materials for the exhibition have been assembled over two years of work around the river, talking to people, taking photographs, recording sounds, and messing around in boats.This is a collaborative project involving four people working in different media, sometimes together, sometimes apart. Each of us has approached the project from a different perspective. The exhibition itself includes many different voices and images – not only our own, but also those of people in the river community
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ItemGwen Harwood(Oxford University Press, 1994)The poetry of Gwen Harwood is famously passionate and sensual. Some readers have sought to interpret the dramatic situations of her poems as autobiographical narratives. Conversely, when these scenarios seem too suggestive, Harwood's more personal poems are sometimes allegorised into safer, more neutral statements about art and poetics. In this lively book Stephanie Trigg argues that greater attention to Gwen Harwood's ability to impersonate or improvise a range of voices can liberate the reader from the tyranny of the biographical equation. Trigg pays tribute to the passion and eroticism of Harwood's love poetry without seeking to probe the more private mysteries of its composition. In doing so, she posits a new way of reading one of Australia's finest poets. Harwood's fascination with the nature of art is also taken up in a study of her affiliations with poetic tradition. These relations are never straightforward, and this book suggests that feminist literary theory can help us read Harwood's complex, dynamic relations with the poetry of the past. Its conclusions will surprise many readers.
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ItemDreaming of Robert De Niro(Five Islands Press, 2003)Grant Caldwell was born in Melbourne in 1947. He has been writing poetry and prose for 30 years. This is his seventh book, his fifth collection of poetry. His last book You Know What I Mean was nominated for the Age Book Of the Year Award. He has received two Australia Council Fellowships and two Vicarts grants. He has lived in London, Morocco, Ibiza and Sydney. Presently he lives in Melbourne. He has been teaching writing part time at The School of Creative Arts, Melbourne University since 1995; he also teaches at Holmesglen TAFE.
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ItemThe Romanticism of Contemporary Thoery(Ashgate, 2003)
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ItemSituating sexualities: Queer representation in Taiwanese fiction, film and public culture(Hong Kong University Press, 2003-01-01)
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ItemCongenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern(University of Minnesota Press, 2002)