<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Hi all!</span><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">I’d like to invite you to a talk by Dr Corey Wakeling, who is visiting Sydney from Kobe College in Japan.</div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b class="gmail-">The talk will happen in the Elwyn Lynn Conference Centre (UNSW Art & Design, Paddington) at 2pm on Friday March 2.*</b></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">For those interested, I will be launching Corey’s new poetry collection,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="gmail-">The Alarming Conservatory<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Giramondo) at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/192811384797601/" class="gmail-">Frontyard</a> in Marrickville at 6pm that same day. </div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Abstract and bio below:</div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b class="gmail-"><span lang="EN-GB" class="gmail-" style="line-height:12.84px"><br class="gmail-"></span></b></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b class="gmail-"><span lang="EN-GB" class="gmail-" style="line-height:12.84px">The Problem of the Literary in Australian Poetics Today</span></b></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b class="gmail-"><span lang="EN-GB" class="gmail-" style="line-height:12.84px"><br></span></b></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><p class="MsoNormal">In this seminar, I confront the question of the function of literary value in Australian poetics today. In my view, taste remains the dominant mode through which poetry and poetics in Australia undergoes compilation, publication, and discussion, while the principles of taste governing these activities enjoys immunity from analysis. Due to a lack of engagement with the literary in poetics more generally, the literary in Australian poetics becomes a mystificatory pivot through which the tastes of particular attitudes, rather than concepts, dialectics, or events of textual singularity, vie for authority. I want to deconstruct this tendency by confronting taste with alternative understandings of the literary provided by diverse critics such as Claire Colebrook, Terry Eagleton, Derek Attridge, Fredric Jameson, Ben Lerner, and Brian Reed. Divisions between poetics and literary criticism, often more taste-driven than they may appear, similarly confound the ability to develop discursive knowledge about poetry in this context. Through a heterogeneous survey of prominent literary theories, I propose that the discursive cul-de-sacs of taste crack open when the nature of the literary subtending particular attitudes are demystified. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Corey Wakeling is a Lecturer at Kobe College. He received a PhD in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2013, and has published essays in journals such as <i>Modern Drama, TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, </i>and <i>Plumwood Mountain</i>. His critical writing investigates economies of attention in text and performance. Corey is also a poet, his most recent volume <i>The Alarming Conservatory</i> (Giramondo 2018).</span></p>
<br><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">* The Elwyn Lynn Conference Centre is a room just east of the library in the 'upper' part of campus. It's a very small campus so easy to find! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">--</div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Astrid</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div>