Research Papers
The articles or papers included here are examples of the research interests of some of the staff who work in and around the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Most are in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format rather than in HTML (web page) format in order to make for easier reading and more accurate formatting.
Although many of these articles can be downloaded, they remain copyright to their authors; for any use of them please contact the authors. Research papers are works in progress and normally not ready for publication. They should not be cited without express permission from the author, nor should they be copied or extracted.
- Andrew Benjamin
- Andrew Benjamin, 'The Identity of Terror'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 20th March 2002.
- Andrew Benjamin: 'Mimesis and Modernity: From Winckelmann to Hubsch',
or 'Images within Autonomy: The Style of Architecture'.
Paper given at the CCLCS Research Symposium, 16th April 2003.
No copying or extracting. - Andrew Benjamin, 'Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion. A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" XIV'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research seminar, 20th August 2003.
- Andrew Benjamin, 'The Illusion of The Future: Notes on Benjamin and Freud'. Given at the CCLCS Conference on 7 December 2005
- Roland
Boer
- Roland Boer, 'An Un-Original Tale: Utopia Denied in Enuma Elish'. Given at the CCLCS Conference on 7 December 2005.
- Roland Boer, 'Political Myth'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar on 3 August 2005.
- Roland Boer, 'On Christian Communism: The Legacy of Engels, Luxemburg and Kautsky'. Paper given at the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, 5th-7th December 2007.
- Paola Bono
- Paola Bono, 'The Abjection of the Female Body: Hell as a Metaphor for Birth'. [RTF version ]. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 16th April, 2005.
- Ian Buchanan
- Ian Buchanan, 'Two or Three Things Australians Don't Seem to Want to Know About Asylum Seekers'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, Wednesday 26 March 2003.
- Jacques Derrida
- Jacques Derrida, 'Forgiving the Unforgivable'. [Sound recording available in Mattheson Library only] CCLCS Public Lecture, 7 August 1999.
- Axel
Fliethmann
- Axel Fliethmann, 'The Right of Passage'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, Wednesday 8 September.
- Elizabeth Grosz
- Elizabeth Grosz, 'Naked' . Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 18th March 1998.
- Kevin Hart
- Kevin Hart, 'The Experience of Poetry'. CCLCS Public Lecture, May 1996.
- Kevin Hart, 'Blanchot's
Primal Scene'. Given at the Research Seminar, 31st
July 2002.
No copying or extracting. - Kevin Hart, 'Poetry and Revelation: Hopkins, Counter-Experience and Reductio'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar on 11 August 2004
- Danny Huppatz
- Danny Huppatz, 'Designer Nostalgia in Hong Kong'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 12th May 2004.
- Svend Erik Larsen
- Svend Erik Larsen, ' “To See Things for the First Time”: Before and After Ecocriticism'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 18th April 2007
- Jim McGuigan
- Jim McGuigan, 'The Cultural Public Sphere'. [RTF version]. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 2nd March, 2005.
- Andrew Milner
- Andrew Milner, 'Theorise This! Globalising Theory and the Politics of Identity'. Given at the Research Seminar, 10th October 2001.
- Andrew
Milner, 'Utopia
and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams'. Given at
the Research Seminar, 5th June 2002.
This is the initial version of a paper that will appear in a revised version as an article in July 2003 issue of Science Fiction Studies. - Andrew Milner, 'When Worlds Collide: Comparative Literature, World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 25th August 2004.
- Andrew Milner, 'Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar on Wednesday 21 September 2005.
- Andrew Milner, ‘Archaeologies of Science Fiction: Jameson’s Utopia and Orwell’s Dystopia’. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar on Wednesday 9 May 2007.
- Andrew Milner, 'Tales of Resonance and Wonder: Locating Science Fiction'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar on Wednesday 3 September 2008.
- Nina Philadelphoff-Puren
- Nina Philadelphoff-Puren, 'Exhibiting
the Hymen: The Blank Page between Law and Literature'.
Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 30th April 2003.
No copying or extracting.
- Nina Philadelphoff-Puren, 'Exhibiting
the Hymen: The Blank Page between Law and Literature'.
Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 30th April 2003.
- Kate Rigby
- Kate Rigby, 'What are Poets For? Heidegger's Gift to Ecocriticism '. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 30th May 2001.
- Kate Rigby, 'The Return of Nature as Art: An Ecocritical Perspective on Romantic Aesthetics' . Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 16th October 2002.
- Kate Rigby, '(Not) by Design: Utopian Moments in the Creation of Canberra'. Given at the CCLCS Conference on 7 December 2005.
- Kate Rigby, 'Apocalypse Now: Whither Utopianism in the Midst of Catastrophe?'. Paper given at the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, 5th-7th December 2007.
- Alison
Ross
- Alison Ross, 'Art as Judgement: Derrida's Analysis of Aesthetic Interjection' . Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, Wednesday 4 September 2002.
- Matthew Ryan
- Matthew Ryan, 'Self, Nation, Novel'. Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, Wednesday 15 October 2003.
- Matthew Ryan, 'The Dystopian Rendering of Ideology and Utopia in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"'. Paper given at the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, 5th-7th December 2007.
- David Roberts
- David Roberts, 'From the Culture Industry to the Aesthetic Economy'. Given at the Research Seminar, 13th March 2002.
- David Roberts, 'Towards a Genealogy and Typology of the Spectacle: Some Comments on Debord' . Paper given at CCLCS Research Seminar, 11th June 2003.
- David Roberts, 'The Sublime in Politics: the Fascist Aestheticization of Politics Revisited'. Paper given at CCLCS Research Seminar, 23rd May 2007.
- Robert Savage
- Robert Savage, 'My Own Private Swabia: On the Idiocy of Heidegger's Nationalism ', Paper given at CCLCS Research Seminar, 2nd August 2006.
- Inna Semetsky
- Inna Semetsky, 'An
Unconscious Subject of Deleuze and Guattari'. Paper
given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 17th September, 2003.
Please note that this article should not be printed or copied; please contact the author for permission to quote from it. This is a much abbreviated version of an article entitled "The complexity of individuation" forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (Kluwer Publishing). - Inna Semetsky, 'The Age of Abjection: Kristeva's Semanalysis For the Real World' . Paper given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 28th April 2004.
- Inna Semetsky, 'An
Unconscious Subject of Deleuze and Guattari'. Paper
given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 17th September, 2003.
- Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Dimitris Vardoulakis, 'The Politics of Impassivity in Agamben and Spinoza', Paper given at CCLCS Research Seminar, 9th August 2006..
- Walter
Veit
- Walter Veit, 'Labourers in the Vineyard, Or the Uneducated Missionary: Aspects of the Non-theological Education of Missionaries'. Paper given at CCLCS Research Seminar, 6th August 2003.
- Millicent Vladiv-Glover
- Millicent Vladiv-Glover, 'Aids as the Ultimate 'Real' of the Writer: Robert Dessaix'Night Letters'. [HTML page] Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 3rd September 1997.
- Millicent Vladiv-Glover 'Religion as Aesthetic Sensibility in the Arabic and Russian Novel'. Given at the CCLCS Research Seminar, 29th May 2002.
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