Shakespeare Our Contemporary

Nelson, Camilla; Kott, Jan; Taborski, Bolesław

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“…The increasing visibility and internationalization of Australian literature as an academic field of study will over time introduce new critical perspectives that will surely enliven the subject, even if some curmudgeonly nativist scholars might continue to complain about how overseas readers tend to get things wrong. Such protectionist impulses are familiar enough, but there has of course been a long tradition of canonical English authors being re‐read in provocative and illuminating ways by non‐English scholars: Jan Kott on Shakespeare (Kott, 1965) and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Jane Austen (Sedgwick, 1991) come immediately to mind. In this sense, the various forms of critical displacement through which Australian literature and Australian literary scholarship will find themselves integrated more fully into a world system should ultimately be beneficial for all parties.…”

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Futures of english studies: Australia

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2023

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This paper considers the professionalization of literary studies in Australian universities. It traces ways in which its interdisciplinary formations have been shaped not only by the cultural contexts of colonialism and postcolonialism, but also by institutional factors and budgetary pressures. Nevertheless, it argues this framework has also created intellectual opportunities for positively reshaping the subject so as to bring it into discursive conversation with cognate fields. It suggests that the repositioning of Australian literature and literary studies in relation to World Literature may offer the prospect of opening up the field for the benefit of scholars the world over.

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