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Get PDF1266 and All That: An Archaeological Approach to Understanding the Scottish Takeover Of The Kingdom Of The Isles
Get PDF“New Made of Flower Leaves”: Nature, Evolution and Female Education in Edward Robert Hughes’s The Princess out of School
Get PDFThis essay is the first to explore the meaning and cultural context of Edward Robert Hughes’s large-scale watercolour The Princess out of School, 1901, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. While the work has familiar artistic sources in depictions of reclining meditative figures, this lineage is combined with an unusually rich literary emphasis, referring to both Tennyson’s poem The Princess, 1847, in its title and Keats’ Endymion, 1818, in a quotation that accompanied the work when it was first exhibited.
Identified as a student by her abandoned scholar’s cap, Hughes’s figure takes up Tennyson’s narrative about a princess who founds a university exclusively for women, reflecting current debates about female education, untamed nature and Darwinian evolution. These ideas were also reflected in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, first performed in 1884, with production designs that compare closely with Hughes’s composition. Hughes’s connections with leading aesthetic and literary circles are also reflected in the quotation from Keats’ poem referring to an idyllic bower that provides respite for his troubled protagonist Endymion. Likewise Hughes’s heroine rejects the academy in favour of a direct experience of nature, her robe and hair seemingly entwined with the flowers and leaves. Immersing her figure in a tapestry-like field of colours, Hughes extends his innovative use of watercolour towards the abstract metaphysical dimensions sought by Symbolist artists as well as writers such as Christina Rossetti, whose poetry he also illustrated. Audaciously emulating two of the most influential nineteenth-century poets, Hughes’s depiction is a therapeutic vision of nature: the fertile untamed bank which the princess studies ‘out of school’ reinterprets Keats’s visual aesthetic of organic plenitude while enacting Tennyson’s vision for female emancipation as part of a wider Darwinian evolution
Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (rev).
Get PDFThe Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear
Get PDFReview of Melissa Edmundsen's edition of Helen de Guerry Simpson's "The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938
I'll Show You Love In a Handful of Dust: The Material Poetics of Voss
Get PDFThis article argues the final and arguably most permeable frontier Patrick White’s Voss sets out across is the material. Informed by the environmental and material turn in the humanities and turning away from the purely psychological and ‘country of the mind’ readings of White’s novel, I explore Voss’s engagement with various non-realist traditions to open questions on how literature and the text might materialise new sources of intimacy and interconnection with the mineral realm. Tracking a journey through stone and rock to dust, I connect Voss’s material poetics to larger themes and the wider question of the texts relationship to the Australian environment. I argue that in White’s novel a confrontation occurs between an inherited European literary aesthetics, connected to humanist ideals, and the dry and uniquely Australian material environments of the interior. Whereas colonial Sydney seeks stability and impermeability through their relation to stone and the material world, the journey inland will fracture and fissure established forms. The ultimate triumph of Voss’s material poetics, manifested largely through Laura, is to discover not simply fear in a handful of dust, as in T.S. Eliot’s famous line from The Waste Land, but love
Meg Brayshaw, Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 230 pages. AU$119.00 ISBN 9783030644284 (Paperback)
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Kāpia: Fossils and remedies: more-than-human survivors
Get PDFNot long after I was absorbed in the latent energies in the Tsunami boulders and Len Lye’s kinetic systems, I returned to more-than-human geologies in my art practice. The catalyst for my recent video work Kāpia: fossils and remedies was a story of kāpia, a relic of an ancient forest commonly called Kauri gum by the settler-colonists, uncovered in a sand dune in the Hokianga harbour in the ‘far north’ of Aotearoa New Zealand. In long-ago climates, the ancestors of Kauri trees, Agathis australis, grew throughout the country and their traces can be found in the leaf fossil records and in amber, their resin, and the solidified pre-fossil resin, kāpia. Today, only a few stands of original Kauri forest remain in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland, and their future survival is uncertain. The gigantism of the Kauri tree evidences their deep prehistory when they dwelled with huge creatures on the continent of Gondwana in proto-Australia, the Pacific islands, India and Antarctica. Kauri are believed, controversially, to have survived the complete submergence of Aotearoa in the Miocene era, but now they must withstand a new pathogen. Phytophthora agathidicida, commonly called Kauri die-back, surfaced in the Anthropocene, just like COVID-19. We humans are asked by many iwi, tribes, to socially distance from these living ancestor-trees for their own survival, under conditions of rahui, or temporary prohibition. How might we protect bodies of trees, people and other more-than-human companions
Social representation of the profession of psychology and the application of artificial intelligence: European Union regulatory authority and the application of psychology as a paradigm for the future
Get PDFThe digitisation of work affects thinking with respect to who will work, what work will entail and how governments will control change. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is recognized as a threat and as a facilitator of change. The European Union leads in the development of regulatory power in the area. We examine these regulations and how they may affect the application of AI to work, especially with respect to psychology. Psychology is a profession universally conceived in the recent past to be immune from the predations of automation due to the level of cognitive and emotional skills believed to underly competence. The image or social representation of the discipline/profession plays a role in how the discipline is perceived and understood and how it is placed within the predicted matrix of jobs under threat. We demonstrate that psychology may not be immune in the context of a contemporary social representation. Regulatory practices in training and employment put psychology under threat as a “safe” profession. Europe has regulated and commodified the practice and training of psychology and hence has magnified the threat of replacement of those practices by AI. Governments and the professions need to be mindful of these consequences
Power in practice: EU member states’ 2020 early negotiations on Covid-19 burden sharing
Get PDFThe manoeuvring and the strategies that state actors and their delegates employ when discussing and negotiating practices at the European Union (EU) level clearly respond to their aim of attaining outcomes at that very level. Within that landscape, what makes a country more powerful and persuasive than others, why some states punch above their weight, and how the threads of European diplomacy are concretely moved are unclear processes that the practice approach promises to explain. This investigation employs the practice approach to distinguish ‘power in practice’. It considers power as a development connected to social relations. In fact, it views micro-level diplomatic dynamics as the site from which to observe power. It fills a gap in the field of adopting the practice approach in EU studies by contributing to theory through showing the approach’s policy performance. It asks the central question of ‘whether power resources emerge out of constant work and negotiation’. It applies the practice approach to the early 2020 negotiations in the EU arena on burden sharing linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that what is at stake in the course of the negotiations is a complex social game, in which manoeuvring for diplomatic competence becomes an end in itself