Writing and Literature/ HDR seminar – 5th August 12 pm, David McCooey
Our next Writing & Literature Seminar and HDR Seminar is coming up soon:
When: Wednesday 5 August from 12 noon to 2 pm. The second hour will be an HDR presentation.
Where: Zoom (see invitation copied below).
Professor David McCooey will be presenting in the first hour, from 12 noon to 1 pm, on the topic:
‘Uncanny Allusions: Poetry, Film, and Filiation’
The transcontextualisation of poetry in film through quotation is a small, but unexpectedly rich, field of uncanny repetitions. The uncanny—as an unsettling of the homely—is a mode inherently concerned with filiation, family resemblances, and parental predecessors. In my discussion of the quotation of poetry in film, I will argue that the theme of filiation is one of the key ways in which poetry, an ancient cultural formation, makes its uncanny power felt in the newer medium of film. In addition, by briefly attending to my poem ‘La Notte: A Tale of the Uncanny’, (which references Antonioni’s film of that name), I will consider how such transmedialisation, and the thematisation of uncanny familial resemblances, might work in the other direction.
Professor David McCooey is an international expert in Australian literary studies. His areas of speciality are autobiography and poetry. His Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography was published by Cambridge University Press in 1996, the same year that the book was awarded a NSW Premiers Literary Award. His publications on poetry include the Contemporary Poetry chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2000), the Poetry: 1970-2005 chapter in The Companion to Australian Literature (2007), and the ‘Autobiography’ chapter in The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. David has also written numerous essays and reviews for scholarly and general publications such as Criticism, Biography, Southerly, Meanjin, Westerly, Australian Book Review, The Age, The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and JASAL. David has also written Introductions to 30 Australian Poets (UQP, 2011) and Rosemary Dobson Collected (UQP, 2012).
Everyone is welcome to attend in the first hour and HDR students are invited to stay on for the second hour.
Hope to see you there!
Patrick West
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Topic: Writing and Literature and HDR Seminar Series
Time: Aug 5, 2020 12:00 Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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