Philip Mead
Biographic Data
| ID | 690831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Mead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Mead |
| SIGNATURE | MEAD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5748-7716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Settlement Poetics
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…
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationall…
Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities
Afterword: The Province of L’Avenir
A Future for Australian Studies
This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies and its shaping of knowledge. The anecdotal topics I exp…
Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant Irish writers. The picturesque landscape of the Highlands in the Young Irelander John Mitchelâ s Jail Journal (1856) is well known; less well known is the writing of William Moore Ferrar, born in Dublin in 1823 and who emigrated to New South Wales, then Van Diemenâ s Land, as a free settler in …
Beyond the Bounds: John Kinsella’s Poetics of International Regionalism
For John Kinsella place and space, with all their historical, cultural, political, geographical, epistemic and environmental dimensions, are explicitly constitutive of his writing. But the ruling imaginary of this writing is “displacement,” the problems and paradoxes of home, country, travel, knowledge, ecology, activism that characterise his critical and poetic engagements. From multiple angles Kinsella’s writing anatomises the unsettledness of …
Contingencies of Meaning Making: English Teaching and Literary Sociability
This paper draws on interviews conducted as part of the Australian Research Council funded Discovery project Investigating Literary Knowledge in the Making of English Teachers. Those interviews inquire into the role of literary knowing in the professional learning of early career English teachers, focusing specifically on their experiences as they make the transition, via teacher education programmes, from university students of English to school…
Unresolved Sovereignty and the Anthropocene Novel: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
The recent “Uluru Statement from the Heart” (May, 2017), and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June, 2017) are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are supersed…
The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country
The Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novels Plains of Promise, Carpentaria and The Swan Book have prompted scholars and critics towards enthusiastic comparisons with the ground-breaking work of a range of international writers. With her novels all set partly in the remote Gulf Country of north Australia, Wright's work arises from intellectual and political commitment to Indigenous people, and aspires to the idea of a distinctive ‘Aboriginal sove…
Reading the Local and Global: Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools in Australia
Recently Australia has witnessed a revival of concern about the place of Australian literature within the school curriculum. This has occurred within a policy environment where there is increasing emphasis on Australia’s place in a world economy, and on the need to encourage young people to think of themselves in a global context. These dimensions are reflected in the recently published Australian Curriculum: English, which requires students to r…
Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses 'two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary field: Marcia Langton's cultural and ecomonic histories of mining and Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria
Horacio Vaggione and the piano: An introduction to his mature piano style
Vaggione's writing for the piano exhibits a baroque-like integrity of style and form. The key elements: pointillism, two-part writing, block chords, silence and the use of pedals are first examined separately, and then in combination. Finally, an effective learning method for the challenge of combining piano with electronics is suggested
In the Space of the Cursor: "An introduction to john kinsella's "a new lyricism
2001). IN THE SPACE OF THE CURSOR: An introduction to john kinsella's 'a new lyricism' Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 79-83
Response to Judith Wright
Philip Mead responds to Judith Wright's biographical corrections (see 'Judith Wright: Corrections to Biographical Errors', in this issue of ALS)
Veronica Brady’s Biography of Judith Wright
Cultural Pathology: What Ern Malley Means
Aftershocks from the conflicts that shaped Australian poetic culture in the 1940s can be faintly discerned even today. One influential element of the 'legend of the '40s', for example, the Jindyworobak movement, is the source of an evolutionary strain in Australian cultural theory that some writers continue to draw on in their redefining of national culture in relation to questions of race. What began as an attempt to 'Australianise' writing and …
Death and Home-Work: The Origins of Narrative in *The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Mead considers the role of death in the narrative and argues that it is a powerful cultural symbol because of its thematic connections with the idea of home. Home is linked with death and burial throughout the novel. Mahonyâ s slow dissolution in the asylum and burial beneath the soil of his adopted country leads Mead to the idea of colonisation, but he concludes that â there is no possible reconciliation between subject and nationâ
Official Criticism? Critical Practices and Australian Poetry
Discussion of poetry's relative cultural significance can and should be localised; however much we might want to follow the overseas debates, national and specific cultural orientations are at least half the story here. What do we do, then, with this diminished thing poetry? The nostalgia for poetry can have a positive valency in this context; it can be mobilised in the service of the demystifying recognition that if we want our own meanings then…
The Temperament of Generations: Fifty Years of Writing in Meanjin
A collection of literary, cultural and political writings published in Meanjin over the fifty years since its foundation, together with archival material and editorial commentary
Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poetâ s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpurâ s attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poetâ s romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. Wha…
Non-Contractual Liability of the European Communities
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Unresolved Sovereignty and the Anthropocene Novel: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
The recent “Uluru Statement from the Heart” (May, 2017), and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June, 2017) are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are supersed…
Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant Irish writers. The picturesque landscape of the Highlands in the Young Irelander John Mitchelâ s Jail Journal (1856) is well known; less well known is the writing of William Moore Ferrar, born in Dublin in 1823 and who emigrated to New South Wales, then Van Diemenâ s Land, as a free settler in …
The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country
The Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novels Plains of Promise, Carpentaria and The Swan Book have prompted scholars and critics towards enthusiastic comparisons with the ground-breaking work of a range of international writers. With her novels all set partly in the remote Gulf Country of north Australia, Wright's work arises from intellectual and political commitment to Indigenous people, and aspires to the idea of a distinctive ‘Aboriginal sove…
Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses 'two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary field: Marcia Langton's cultural and ecomonic histories of mining and Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria
Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poetâ s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpurâ s attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poetâ s romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. Wha…
Non-Contractual Liability of the European Communities
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Temperament of Generations: Fifty Years of Writing in Meanjin
A collection of literary, cultural and political writings published in Meanjin over the fifty years since its foundation, together with archival material and editorial commentary
Official Criticism? Critical Practices and Australian Poetry
Discussion of poetry's relative cultural significance can and should be localised; however much we might want to follow the overseas debates, national and specific cultural orientations are at least half the story here. What do we do, then, with this diminished thing poetry? The nostalgia for poetry can have a positive valency in this context; it can be mobilised in the service of the demystifying recognition that if we want our own meanings then…
Cultural Pathology: What Ern Malley Means
Aftershocks from the conflicts that shaped Australian poetic culture in the 1940s can be faintly discerned even today. One influential element of the 'legend of the '40s', for example, the Jindyworobak movement, is the source of an evolutionary strain in Australian cultural theory that some writers continue to draw on in their redefining of national culture in relation to questions of race. What began as an attempt to 'Australianise' writing and …
Death and Home-Work: The Origins of Narrative in *The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Mead considers the role of death in the narrative and argues that it is a powerful cultural symbol because of its thematic connections with the idea of home. Home is linked with death and burial throughout the novel. Mahonyâ s slow dissolution in the asylum and burial beneath the soil of his adopted country leads Mead to the idea of colonisation, but he concludes that â there is no possible reconciliation between subject and nationâ
Veronica Brady’s Biography of Judith Wright
Response to Judith Wright
Philip Mead responds to Judith Wright's biographical corrections (see 'Judith Wright: Corrections to Biographical Errors', in this issue of ALS)
In the Space of the Cursor: "An introduction to john kinsella's "a new lyricism
2001). IN THE SPACE OF THE CURSOR: An introduction to john kinsella's 'a new lyricism' Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 79-83
Horacio Vaggione and the piano: An introduction to his mature piano style
Vaggione's writing for the piano exhibits a baroque-like integrity of style and form. The key elements: pointillism, two-part writing, block chords, silence and the use of pedals are first examined separately, and then in combination. Finally, an effective learning method for the challenge of combining piano with electronics is suggested
Reading the Local and Global: Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools in Australia
Recently Australia has witnessed a revival of concern about the place of Australian literature within the school curriculum. This has occurred within a policy environment where there is increasing emphasis on Australia’s place in a world economy, and on the need to encourage young people to think of themselves in a global context. These dimensions are reflected in the recently published Australian Curriculum: English, which requires students to r…
Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses 'two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary field: Marcia Langton's cultural and ecomonic histories of mining and Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria
The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country
The Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novels Plains of Promise, Carpentaria and The Swan Book have prompted scholars and critics towards enthusiastic comparisons with the ground-breaking work of a range of international writers. With her novels all set partly in the remote Gulf Country of north Australia, Wright's work arises from intellectual and political commitment to Indigenous people, and aspires to the idea of a distinctive ‘Aboriginal sove…
Unresolved Sovereignty and the Anthropocene Novel: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
The recent “Uluru Statement from the Heart” (May, 2017), and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June, 2017) are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia. Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are supersed…
Contingencies of Meaning Making: English Teaching and Literary Sociability
This paper draws on interviews conducted as part of the Australian Research Council funded Discovery project Investigating Literary Knowledge in the Making of English Teachers. Those interviews inquire into the role of literary knowing in the professional learning of early career English teachers, focusing specifically on their experiences as they make the transition, via teacher education programmes, from university students of English to school…
Afterword: The Province of L’Avenir
A Future for Australian Studies
This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies and its shaping of knowledge. The anecdotal topics I exp…
Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant Irish writers. The picturesque landscape of the Highlands in the Young Irelander John Mitchelâ s Jail Journal (1856) is well known; less well known is the writing of William Moore Ferrar, born in Dublin in 1823 and who emigrated to New South Wales, then Van Diemenâ s Land, as a free settler in …
Beyond the Bounds: John Kinsella’s Poetics of International Regionalism
For John Kinsella place and space, with all their historical, cultural, political, geographical, epistemic and environmental dimensions, are explicitly constitutive of his writing. But the ruling imaginary of this writing is “displacement,” the problems and paradoxes of home, country, travel, knowledge, ecology, activism that characterise his critical and poetic engagements. From multiple angles Kinsella’s writing anatomises the unsettledness of …
Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationall…
Settlement Poetics
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…
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