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Marcus Clarke: the Romance of Reality
Get PDFAustralia's most durable novel, For the Term of His Natural Life, places Marcus Clarke at the pinnacle of Australia's literary ancestry. His magnum opus has antecedents in his journalism but few scholars have recognised the extent to which Clarke's reportage influenced his fiction. This paper argues he treated journalism and fiction as companions in language, information gathering, theme and truth telling
Convict to settler : Marcus Clarke
No full textContains the first chapter of The Dream and the Reality, an unpublished literary work by John McLaren on the study of the realist tradition in Australian fiction. The purpose of McLaren’s study is to explore the attitude of Australians to their country which has always been ambiguous and show how some Australian fiction writers reacted to this particular experience and environment, how they have treated the dream and how they have dealt with reality. In this chapter McLaren reviews the literary works of Marcus Clarke, an Australian novelist and poet, and in particular his novel For the Term of his Natural Life, which depicts the harsh and inhumane treatment of convicts. It is irrelevant whether Clarke saw his work as a complete account of life in Australia or whether he was deliberately confining himself to an exploration of the nature of the convict system, just as it irrelevant to ask whether the picture is historically accurate. The important fact is that it is the convict element of Australian life which evokes Clarke’s major work of the imagination, whose gloom stands in such contrast to the conventional Australian legend of resilience, humour and optimism
Weird Melancholy: the stories of Marcus Clarke
No full textWhen Hamilton Mackinnon collected Clarke's stories in The Austral Edition nf the Selected Works nf Marcus Clarke (1890),1 he placed as the first item of the 'Australian Tales and Sketches' section two pages entitled 'Australian Scenery'. This justly famous passage, originally part of the text accompanying reproductions of two paintings, Louis Buvelot's 'Waterpool Near Coleraine' and Nicholas Chevalier's 'The Buffalo Ranges' in Photol?raphs of the Pictures in the National Gallery, Melbourne (1874), had been incorporated into Clarke's preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's poems in 1876 and frequently reprinted.2 It was certainly not a tale, even if arguably a sketch. But its inclusion set a tone for Clarke's stories that followed, even if it was not the tone that Clarke set. The expected feature of Australian stories by the 1890s was clearly up-country description. Yet when we turn to Clarke's stories, such landscape descriptions are generally marginal. Mackinnon's incorporation of the passage into 'Australian Tales and Sketches' suggests an attempt to supplement the comparative lack of scenic settings in the stories themselves. As the passage demonstrates
Marcus Clarke [manuscript] : a study of literary life and character in colonial Australia / by Brian Elliott.
No full textTypescript."This thesis provided the basic text for a revision which was published in 1958 as 'Marcus Clarke', Oxford, Clarendon Press. Researchers ... would do well to remember that the published book represents the final state of my views in 1958. ... I remain dissatisfied still about the treatment of 'His Natural Life' in both versions and would draw attention to ... the Introduction to the Angus and Robertson paperback reissue of 'For the Term of His Natural Life', Sydney, 1973." - Typewritten note added to inside front cover by Brian Elliott, August 14, 1979.Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.Thesis (D. Litt.)--University of Adelaide, 195
Marcus Clarke: Confronting Spectacle with Spectacle in For the Term of His Natural Life
Get PDFWhile Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life is unquestionably a valuable contribution to Australian literature, his journalism career also deserves equal attention, particularly as an influential antecedent to the creation of his seminal text not only on a technical basis as John Conley details in “Marcus Clarke: The Romance of Reality”, but also as a social platform. In “Marcus Clarke and the Society of the Spectacle: Reflections on Writing and Commodity Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne,” Andrew McCann demonstrates how the “Peripatetic Philosopher”— one of Clarke’s more successful journalistic endeavors—and other selections reveal Clarke’s critique of the colonial Melbourne society and it’s fascination with the spectacle, which Clarke both caters to and critiques in his novel. One of McCann’s points focuses on how the public’s “lust for blood” correlates with urban boredom—a concept that’s mirrored through a relationship between the tedious size of the novel and it’s escalation of the spectacle from parental secrets to child suicides. Part of Clarke’s journalistic aim, according to McCann, is to highlight the demoralizing effects of this societal interest in the grotesque—a concern effectively accomplished in Kirkland’s flogging where Dawes’s moral stance is tortured to the point where he seems to have “abandoned his humanity,” notably so at the hands of Gabbett, a central figure of spectacle in the novel. Clarke’s journalism arguably suggests this demoralization is atavistic in nature through his juxtaposition of barbaric history and contemporary criticism, which introduces a unique approach to the novel, considering the imperialist roots of the transportation system. The sensationalized “trophies” of British colonizers and the European tastes of Clarke’s audience taken together with Patrick Brantlinger’s definition of imperialism in “Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914” supports this critical framework, while the novel further explores this perspective primarily through viewing the authority figures as colonizers and convicts as the colonized. This interpretation is supported by the sub-human descriptions of the convicts that reflect imperialist attitudes, and through an analysis of Maurice Frere, with particular focus to his “backsliding” linguistics and his “theft” of the barbaric coracle. If Maurice Frere is the metaphorical embodiment of Clarke’s “colonizer” audience, their fascination with the spectacle is indeed “antithetical to rational discernment” (McCann) and bordering on atavism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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