My live journal in the second half of this semester has focused on my developing understanding of "Journey to the Stone Country", my introduction to Australian drama, and my reading of the novel "The Conversations at Curlow Creek".

One of my better entries I feel is Week 8 .

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It is with great sadness that I make my final live journal posting as part of the ACU Literature course.
                                      
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I thoroughly enjoyed working on ‘A Hard God’ for this week’s drama performance. Following are the slides we used for the scenes with a little commentary about the performance under each. I must attribute here the skills and talents of Emily Gray in putting this PowerPoint Presentation together. Emily -  
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I wanted to use this week’s entry to explore further the Judith Wright poem ‘Two Dreamtimes’.
                                        
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Our exploration of the life of Judith Wright in the lecture today has prompted me to do some further research. A few interesting points to add;
(information sourced from http://www.judithwrightcentre.com/01_cms/details.asp?ID=50)


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My live journal this semester has shown my progression in understanding of "Journey to the Stone Country".

One of my better entries I feel is Week 5 http://emmadircks.livejournal.com/7088.html.

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Both in the lecture and in the tutorial we touched on the importance of the photograph of Grandma Rennie and the ( Read more... )

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Week 6 saw the beginning of a new area of focus for literature studies - twentieth century Australian poetry.

In tutorials and lectures we focused on a series of poems from MG’s list. However, I would like to comment on a poem from the list that we did not focus on in the tute or the lecture. I have selected this poem based on the simple criterion ( Read more... )