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Literary Hoaxes: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater

Literary Hoaxes: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater. I A Brief Survey Psalmanaazaar. Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704) Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’ , etc. James Macpherson (1736-1796). Ossian (1760-73) Goethe, Walt Whitman

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Literary Hoaxes: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater

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  1. Literary Hoaxes:Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater

  2. IA Brief SurveyPsalmanaazaar • Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704) • Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’, etc

  3. James Macpherson (1736-1796) • Ossian (1760-73) • Goethe, Walt Whitman • Spread of Romanticism throughout Europe

  4. Thomas Chatterton (1752-70)"This is the most extraordinary young man that has come to my knowledge ... it is wonderful how the whelp has written such things" – Samuel Johnson Insert: Painting of Chatterton by Wallis http://www.bristol.ac.uk/romanticstudies/chatterton/

  5. Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) • ‘Thomas Rowley’ (1769) • Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence": I thought of Chatterton, that marvelous Boy; • Coleridge, "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" (1796): O Chatterton! That thou were yet alive! • Charles Harpur (Aust.)

  6. ‘ErnMalley’ (1944) Insert image of Angry Penguins: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=9203 • The Darkening Ecliptic • (James McAuley, Harold Stewart) • VsAngry Penguins, ed. Max Harris

  7. ‘AdoréFloupette’ (1885) • (Henri Beauclair, Gabriel Vicaire) • Les Déliquescencesd’AdoréFloupette

  8. Frank O’Hara John Ashbery  John Tranter, John Forbes, etc.

  9. ‘B. Wongar’ (1972- ) (SretenBožič) Mudrooroo (1995) (MudroorooNarogin, MudroorooNyungar, Colin Johnston) ‘Helen Demidenko’ (1995) (Helen Darville, Helen Dale, etc)

  10. II Concepts and Applications

  11. Unexamined territory: • The poetics of the hoax • The pathology of the hoax

  12. Poetics Two concepts • The Peritext • Ultra-fiction? Hyper-literature? ‘writing without borders’?

  13. We also need to consider: Broad range Pseudonymy/’masking’ to parody to satire/deflation to pathological enactment

  14. e.g. in Australia: • ‘Tom Collins’ (Joseph Furphy) • ‘Miles Franklin’ (Stella Maria Miles Franklin) • ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ ( • ‘Mort Brandish’ • ‘ErnMalley’ • ‘B. Wongar’ • Paul Radley • Mudrooroo • ‘Helen Demidenko’ • ‘Wanda Koomatrie’ (Leon Carmen) • Marlo Morgan • Norma Khouri • Etc.

  15. ‘Hoax Nation’?? A national pathology ? i.e. an ontological anxiety legacy of Immigration / cultural displacement

  16. Sidney Nolan, ‘Ned Kelly’(no face: the poet who does not exist) • Insert image of Sydney Nolan painting http://nga.gov.au/nolan/index.cfm

  17. Tim Storier, ‘The Histrionic Wayfarer’(no face: the poet who does not exist) • Insert image: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2012/29250/

  18. The question of ‘identity’ • As national obsession • As international/universal obsession

  19. Fernando Pessoa (Portugal, 1888-1935) Heteronyms The pressure to cohere is one of the madnesses of our times Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  20. The pressure to be one Hoax as domain of the multiple

  21. Why teach literary hoaxes? • Corrective to literary history – filling out the real story • Better understanding of national character and identity • (most important?) better understanding of individualidentity formation, the battle of the Multiple and the One (and so better understanding of immense contemporary psychological pressure [depression, etc.])

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