Katherine Bode
Biographic Data
| ID | 286391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Bode |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bode |
| SIGNATURE | BODE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3561-9332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What's the Matter with Computational Literary Studies
Doing (Computational) Literary Studies
Notwithstanding many differences within and between them, computational literary studies (CLS) and other literary fields do the same thing: they enact the phenomena they investigate by writing with writing. To make this argument, I present performativity as the endemic (though undertheorized) condition of literary knowledge, including in CLS, where it is latent: practiced by disavowed. When literary ways of writing with writing are enacted with c…
Reading in the (post)digital age: Large databases and the future of literature in secondary English classrooms
While “born digital” artefacts such as video games and e-books have been part of secondary school English in Anglophone countries for over two decades, databases of mass-digitised (hence “re-mediated”) literary texts are yet to have a significant presence in, or influence on, literary work in subject English. The authors contend that engagement with these digitised texts requires a postdigital “literary literacy”. They explore how “distant readin…
Australia
This chapter on the history of book publishing in Australia divides Australian novel publishing since 1950 into three periods: the 1950s and 1960s, the 1970s and 1980s, and the 1990s to the present. During the 1950s and 1960s, British companies dominated the publication of Australian novels and publishing decisions were predominantly made overseas, but the period also witnessed a ‘local publishing boom’, driven by the belief in the importance of …
Literature as Olympic Event: Understanding the Scoreboard for Australian Women's Writing
there is a degree of overlap between my watching of the Olympics and an increasingly prominent means of understanding and advocating for women in literature: metrics regarding women’s representation
We’re Not Truckin’ Around’: On and off-road in Samuel Wagan Watson’s Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Cars and roads traverse the poetry of Samuel Wagan Watson, a self-identified Aboriginal man of Bundjalung, Birri Gubba, German and Irish ancestry. The narrator/s of the poems in Smoke Encrypted Whispers are repeatedly on the road or beside it, and driving is employed as a metaphor for everything from addiction 2 and memory 3 to the search for love. 4 Road kill litters the poems, 5 while roads come to life, 6 cars become men, 7 and men have 'gas t…
Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006
In 1998, Elizabeth Webby professed a widely accepted account of contemporary \nAustralian literary history. During the 1970s, Australian literature emerged \nfrom a period of 'masculinist' conservatism into a 'golden age', manifested \nin a marked increase in 'Australian publishing and the promotion of Australian \nliterature' and the proliferation of authors other than White Anglo-Celtic \nMales or 'WACMs'. By the late 1990s, however, the combin…
Divergent Convergences: Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference, Monash University and the University of Queensland, 13-14 December 2007
Over the past three decades, feminism has been a major force in literary studies, while literary studies have represented an important strand of academic feminism. This interrelationship has been reflected in the prevalence of feminist papers at literature conferences, and literary papers at feminist conferences. Few conferences, however, have focused exclusively on feminist literary criticism. The Manifesting Literary Feminisms conference theref…
Graphically Gendered: A Quantitative Study of the Relationships Between Australian Novels and Gender From the 1830s to the 1930s
This paper aims to continue and expand, while critiquing aspects of, previous feminist analyses of authors and authorship in Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The majority of such studies have focused on particular women writers and/or on aspects of their fiction. I consider the number and proportion of published novel titles by Australian men and women from 1830 (when publication of Australian novels effectively began) t…
Reading (in/and) *Miranda
Australian fiction, like that of all nations, is written, published, \nreceived and read in the context of a literary canon, both national and \ntransnational. In regards to women's fiction in Australia, this canon is \npredominantly composed of writers from two particular eras: authors of the \nnineteenth and early twentieth centuries (like Henry Handel Richardson, Miles \nFranklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Christina Stead) and women writ…
Unexpected Effects’: Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction
The consistency of the themes surrounding male damage in contemporary Australian women's fictions indicates the presence and nature of a discourse of masculinity crisis. Novels by Australian women published since the 1990s is used as a case study to open up discussion of this Australian trend and explore its similarities and differences to the American discourse of masculinity crisis
Publishing and Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline or Transformation
The globalisation and consolidation of book publishing is widely seen as having negative consequences for Australian literature. Some commentators argue that this shift is detrimental to Australian literature as a whole; others identify the growth of multinational publishing conglomerates with a specific decline in Australian literary fiction. This article explores both positions, first identifying and investigating trends in Australian novel pub…
What's the Matter with Computational Literary Studies
Publishing and Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline or Transformation
The globalisation and consolidation of book publishing is widely seen as having negative consequences for Australian literature. Some commentators argue that this shift is detrimental to Australian literature as a whole; others identify the growth of multinational publishing conglomerates with a specific decline in Australian literary fiction. This article explores both positions, first identifying and investigating trends in Australian novel pub…
Publishing and Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline or Transformation
The globalisation and consolidation of book publishing is widely seen as having negative consequences for Australian literature. Some commentators argue that this shift is detrimental to Australian literature as a whole; others identify the growth of multinational publishing conglomerates with a specific decline in Australian literary fiction. This article explores both positions, first identifying and investigating trends in Australian novel pub…
Reading (in/and) *Miranda
Australian fiction, like that of all nations, is written, published, \nreceived and read in the context of a literary canon, both national and \ntransnational. In regards to women's fiction in Australia, this canon is \npredominantly composed of writers from two particular eras: authors of the \nnineteenth and early twentieth centuries (like Henry Handel Richardson, Miles \nFranklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Christina Stead) and women writ…
Unexpected Effects’: Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction
The consistency of the themes surrounding male damage in contemporary Australian women's fictions indicates the presence and nature of a discourse of masculinity crisis. Novels by Australian women published since the 1990s is used as a case study to open up discussion of this Australian trend and explore its similarities and differences to the American discourse of masculinity crisis
Divergent Convergences: Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference, Monash University and the University of Queensland, 13-14 December 2007
Over the past three decades, feminism has been a major force in literary studies, while literary studies have represented an important strand of academic feminism. This interrelationship has been reflected in the prevalence of feminist papers at literature conferences, and literary papers at feminist conferences. Few conferences, however, have focused exclusively on feminist literary criticism. The Manifesting Literary Feminisms conference theref…
Graphically Gendered: A Quantitative Study of the Relationships Between Australian Novels and Gender From the 1830s to the 1930s
This paper aims to continue and expand, while critiquing aspects of, previous feminist analyses of authors and authorship in Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The majority of such studies have focused on particular women writers and/or on aspects of their fiction. I consider the number and proportion of published novel titles by Australian men and women from 1830 (when publication of Australian novels effectively began) t…
Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006
In 1998, Elizabeth Webby professed a widely accepted account of contemporary \nAustralian literary history. During the 1970s, Australian literature emerged \nfrom a period of 'masculinist' conservatism into a 'golden age', manifested \nin a marked increase in 'Australian publishing and the promotion of Australian \nliterature' and the proliferation of authors other than White Anglo-Celtic \nMales or 'WACMs'. By the late 1990s, however, the combin…
We’re Not Truckin’ Around’: On and off-road in Samuel Wagan Watson’s Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Cars and roads traverse the poetry of Samuel Wagan Watson, a self-identified Aboriginal man of Bundjalung, Birri Gubba, German and Irish ancestry. The narrator/s of the poems in Smoke Encrypted Whispers are repeatedly on the road or beside it, and driving is employed as a metaphor for everything from addiction 2 and memory 3 to the search for love. 4 Road kill litters the poems, 5 while roads come to life, 6 cars become men, 7 and men have 'gas t…
Literature as Olympic Event: Understanding the Scoreboard for Australian Women's Writing
there is a degree of overlap between my watching of the Olympics and an increasingly prominent means of understanding and advocating for women in literature: metrics regarding women’s representation
Australia
This chapter on the history of book publishing in Australia divides Australian novel publishing since 1950 into three periods: the 1950s and 1960s, the 1970s and 1980s, and the 1990s to the present. During the 1950s and 1960s, British companies dominated the publication of Australian novels and publishing decisions were predominantly made overseas, but the period also witnessed a ‘local publishing boom’, driven by the belief in the importance of …
Reading in the (post)digital age: Large databases and the future of literature in secondary English classrooms
While “born digital” artefacts such as video games and e-books have been part of secondary school English in Anglophone countries for over two decades, databases of mass-digitised (hence “re-mediated”) literary texts are yet to have a significant presence in, or influence on, literary work in subject English. The authors contend that engagement with these digitised texts requires a postdigital “literary literacy”. They explore how “distant readin…
Doing (Computational) Literary Studies
Notwithstanding many differences within and between them, computational literary studies (CLS) and other literary fields do the same thing: they enact the phenomena they investigate by writing with writing. To make this argument, I present performativity as the endemic (though undertheorized) condition of literary knowledge, including in CLS, where it is latent: practiced by disavowed. When literary ways of writing with writing are enacted with c…
What's the Matter with Computational Literary Studies
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