Cassandra Atherton
Biographic Data
| ID | 262320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Atherton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Atherton |
| SIGNATURE | ATHERTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6866-8566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Handicapping Literature in the United States, 1935–2010
On any given day at a racetrack, roughly one third of horseplayers win money and roughly two thirds lose. Almost no-one wins consistently. However, racing is not just about the money. Handicapping – solving the puzzle of which horse will win a race – is an intellectual contest, and the prize is believing that the puzzle has been solved in the best, most rational manner. Achieving this goal has given racegoers validation, feelings of success, and …
The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry
The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first century. Bringing together insights from First Nations experts, internationally renowned scholars, distinguished practitioners, and future critical leaders, this volume analyses the role of poetry in the multiple cultural imaginaries of Australia wit…
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
What Lies Beneath
John Kinsella’s three-volume Graphology Poems: 1995–2015 (2016) constitutes a major and shifting set of poetic statements. Partly a discontinuous poetic chronicle of life in Western Australia’s Avon Valley, they are also an investigation of ways in which an activist poetry may inscribe aspects of being, self and experience while protesting against environmental challenges and degradation. As these poems sprawl in many directions and express overl…
Shrine Forests, Bonsai and Public Parks in Tokyo
Ninety percent of Japanese people live in cities, seemingly disconnected from the agrarian world their ancestors inhabited in premodern Japan. Focussing on Tokyo, where the apparent disconnect with the past is most stark, this article looks at old trees in public parks, shrine forests, and old bonsai, and argues that that beneath the city's modern veneer, these trees allow residents to feel close to nature, and stay connected with the history, my…
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years.\n \n The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetryincludes numerous distinguished prose poets—Jordie Albiston, joanne burns, Gary Catalano, Anna Couani, Alex Skovron, …
Poetic boundary conditions
This article explores the experience of women poets in academe and posits that by institutionalising themselves in universities, women poets gain financial stability by working in the wider field of poetry. However, they also face discrimination and a lack of opportunity in these workplaces. The article uses two case studies of poets Maria Takolander and Jill Jones, who work at Deakin University and the University of Adelaide, Australia, respecti…
‘Very Inflated Rhetoric, Polysyllables and So On’
The public intellectual, by their very definition, aims to reach a large sector of the public or publics. This requires proficiency, or at least the capacity to communicate in a variety of forms. As a large proportion of the public, to which the public intellectual appeals, is an online or cyber public, the importance of blogs in a computer-literate public cannot be under-estimated. The immediacy of the blog and the way in which an online presenc…
Situating Public Intellectuals
The concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contested term. This article serves as both an introduction to the debates around what it constitutes and an entry point into how the new media environment is producing a different configuration of the public intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed the idea of the public intellectual internationally and those who have focused on the Australian context, this essay posi…
Give Back Peace That Will Never End
US censorship of public discussion of the bombings during the Allied Occupation of Japan ensured that the Japanese public knew little about the human consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When hibakusha poets seek a public audience for their poetry, their experiences make them potentially powerful public intellectuals. As Noam Chomsky has observed, the most effective public intellectuals are dissidents who act from the mar…
Hottie Doctors
In the first episode of the Style Network’s reality television show Big, Rich Texas (first broadcast 17 July 2011), Bonnie Blossman’s female rival in the series, Pam Martin-Duarte, refers to her as
In the dreaded park’
n\t\t\t\t\t'In the Dreaded Park', first published in the Bulletin in 1961 under Gwen Harwood's first pseudonym, Walter Lehmann, is an example of Harwood listing one of her subpersonalities. It is the best illustration of a site of conflict between scholars of Gwen Harwood's poetry and she is the first person to use the word 'dreaded' in her poem. \n\t\t\t\t
Fuck all editors’
(2002). ‘Fuck all editors’: The Ern Malley affair and Gwen Harwood's bulletin scandal. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 149-157
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
Situating Public Intellectuals
The concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contested term. This article serves as both an introduction to the debates around what it constitutes and an entry point into how the new media environment is producing a different configuration of the public intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed the idea of the public intellectual internationally and those who have focused on the Australian context, this essay posi…
Fuck all editors’
(2002). ‘Fuck all editors’: The Ern Malley affair and Gwen Harwood's bulletin scandal. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 149-157
In the dreaded park’
n\t\t\t\t\t'In the Dreaded Park', first published in the Bulletin in 1961 under Gwen Harwood's first pseudonym, Walter Lehmann, is an example of Harwood listing one of her subpersonalities. It is the best illustration of a site of conflict between scholars of Gwen Harwood's poetry and she is the first person to use the word 'dreaded' in her poem. \n\t\t\t\t
Hottie Doctors
In the first episode of the Style Network’s reality television show Big, Rich Texas (first broadcast 17 July 2011), Bonnie Blossman’s female rival in the series, Pam Martin-Duarte, refers to her as
‘Very Inflated Rhetoric, Polysyllables and So On’
The public intellectual, by their very definition, aims to reach a large sector of the public or publics. This requires proficiency, or at least the capacity to communicate in a variety of forms. As a large proportion of the public, to which the public intellectual appeals, is an online or cyber public, the importance of blogs in a computer-literate public cannot be under-estimated. The immediacy of the blog and the way in which an online presenc…
Situating Public Intellectuals
The concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contested term. This article serves as both an introduction to the debates around what it constitutes and an entry point into how the new media environment is producing a different configuration of the public intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed the idea of the public intellectual internationally and those who have focused on the Australian context, this essay posi…
Give Back Peace That Will Never End
US censorship of public discussion of the bombings during the Allied Occupation of Japan ensured that the Japanese public knew little about the human consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When hibakusha poets seek a public audience for their poetry, their experiences make them potentially powerful public intellectuals. As Noam Chomsky has observed, the most effective public intellectuals are dissidents who act from the mar…
Poetic boundary conditions
This article explores the experience of women poets in academe and posits that by institutionalising themselves in universities, women poets gain financial stability by working in the wider field of poetry. However, they also face discrimination and a lack of opportunity in these workplaces. The article uses two case studies of poets Maria Takolander and Jill Jones, who work at Deakin University and the University of Adelaide, Australia, respecti…
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years.\n \n The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetryincludes numerous distinguished prose poets—Jordie Albiston, joanne burns, Gary Catalano, Anna Couani, Alex Skovron, …
What Lies Beneath
John Kinsella’s three-volume Graphology Poems: 1995–2015 (2016) constitutes a major and shifting set of poetic statements. Partly a discontinuous poetic chronicle of life in Western Australia’s Avon Valley, they are also an investigation of ways in which an activist poetry may inscribe aspects of being, self and experience while protesting against environmental challenges and degradation. As these poems sprawl in many directions and express overl…
Shrine Forests, Bonsai and Public Parks in Tokyo
Ninety percent of Japanese people live in cities, seemingly disconnected from the agrarian world their ancestors inhabited in premodern Japan. Focussing on Tokyo, where the apparent disconnect with the past is most stark, this article looks at old trees in public parks, shrine forests, and old bonsai, and argues that that beneath the city's modern veneer, these trees allow residents to feel close to nature, and stay connected with the history, my…
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry
The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first century. Bringing together insights from First Nations experts, internationally renowned scholars, distinguished practitioners, and future critical leaders, this volume analyses the role of poetry in the multiple cultural imaginaries of Australia wit…
Handicapping Literature in the United States, 1935–2010
On any given day at a racetrack, roughly one third of horseplayers win money and roughly two thirds lose. Almost no-one wins consistently. However, racing is not just about the money. Handicapping – solving the puzzle of which horse will win a race – is an intellectual contest, and the prize is believing that the puzzle has been solved in the best, most rational manner. Achieving this goal has given racegoers validation, feelings of success, and …
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